The Alpacinos
This Bag is Not a Toy
This bag is not a toy... a severe message of warning to children. Perhaps also a message about getting involved with underground punk music – just don’t! Ha ha!
But contained in most of these poorly produced and similar sounding releases are some great pop songs. Borrowing from Oi, Ska, Punk, LA Hardcore and any number of underground music styles provides a superb template for song writing. Add in the usually strong political slant and you have a genre that is more than the sum of its parts. It could really be any punk band on record here but the lineage, at least, makes it palatable.
‘Sick of Being Nothing’ fairly fires along and challenges typical social power structures. ‘Filthy show – filthy town’ is your typical “I can’t wait to leave” song but also questions the value of making it on a major label (‘If the shit sticks wear it, try it on for size’). Even if there’s no obvious musical hook there’s a message in there.
Overall this single is good at what it does and it’ll appeal to the people it needs to. There is little evidence of it invading the general conscious but then that is probably the exact point. Roll on late night radio and Barfly tours. Have a ball boys!
www.thealpacinos.com
Russell Moore
This bag is not a toy... a severe message of warning to children. Perhaps also a message about getting involved with underground punk music – just don’t! Ha ha!
But contained in most of these poorly produced and similar sounding releases are some great pop songs. Borrowing from Oi, Ska, Punk, LA Hardcore and any number of underground music styles provides a superb template for song writing. Add in the usually strong political slant and you have a genre that is more than the sum of its parts. It could really be any punk band on record here but the lineage, at least, makes it palatable.
‘Sick of Being Nothing’ fairly fires along and challenges typical social power structures. ‘Filthy show – filthy town’ is your typical “I can’t wait to leave” song but also questions the value of making it on a major label (‘If the shit sticks wear it, try it on for size’). Even if there’s no obvious musical hook there’s a message in there.
Overall this single is good at what it does and it’ll appeal to the people it needs to. There is little evidence of it invading the general conscious but then that is probably the exact point. Roll on late night radio and Barfly tours. Have a ball boys!
www.thealpacinos.com
Russell Moore
