Maybe it’s the Diet Mtn. Dew talking, but this record has me yelling, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” as if I were a volleyball player. Jenny and Johnny, Matt and Kim, She & Him, and Colleen and Paul. They all do their parts to make compound-complex sentences even harder to copyedit. And of course, it’s more fire for the ampersand debate as well.
Those acts all sound the same, too, which is fine by me. Go on with your bad selves. I want more of this male-female duet stuff. “Please Be Kind” is one of the better tracks, although all are noteworthy. I also like “You’re My Globe.” If Pee-Wee’s Playhouse were still around, I bet Colleen and Paul could be special guests, and they could sing this one to Globey. “TV Summer” makes a reference to TV Guide, so you know I’m all over that.
Archive for August 2010
Colleen and Paul “Colleen and Paul”
August 28, 2010Episode 1494 is up
August 26, 2010Episode 1493 is up
August 26, 2010Episode 1492 is up
August 24, 2010Episode 1491 is up
August 24, 2010Carissa’s Wierd “They’ll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003”
August 21, 2010That’s like naming a band “Doug’s Rael Obnoxious.”
I had really high expectations for this one, and that’s never good. This is an act I somehow missed in my heyday, but when I saw this look back at their apparent greatest times and accolades, I saw it as a chance to finally get to know Carissa’s Wierd. Better late than never, right?
I regret not knowing of these guys when they existed. I would have seen them live at least twice. And it does not surprise me that they spent several years in Portland. And they had a woman who did nothing but play violin. I missed out.
The music itself is like a dark Suddenly, Tammy! Although Carissa’s Weird does not set out to be overly dirty, it’s pretty clear from the get-go that this is a band that knows that rocking means sitting in a van for nine hours, subsisting on little more than Fun Dip. How I can tell this by listening to the record is complicated, but it has a lot to do with song titles such as “The Color That Your Eyes Chaned With the Color of Your Hair” and “So You Wanna Be a Superhero.”
I can tell “One Night Stand” is one of their landmark songs. I’ll play along with that. “Drunk With the Only Saints I Know” is another winner.
My favorite track is “Blessed Arms That Hold You Tight, Freezing Cold and Alone.” It’s a little dramatic, I know, but that was the style at the time.
I would have enjoyed these guys, but they are more of an exhibit of the era than an exemplary representative.
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