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The Bad
Mouths: Self-Titled
The Bad Mouths are from New York City/ Staten Island. The band is made up of four boys by the names of Matt, Mike, Joe and Bryan. Their debut EP is self-titled, and Im pretty sure self-produced and mixed. The audio is not incredibly fantastic, and the vocal levels are ridiculous. I veer from things that require too much work to listen to. I like to place a CD into the player and get straight to the business of deciding whether or not it sucks. If I have to strain to hear the vocals, change my otherwise aurally pleasing and acceptable settings on my equalizer or put on head phones, just so that the potentially horrible sounds I am exposing myself to can be sucked directly into my ears, Im probably leaning towards hating a record. This is one of those. The recording is lackluster and doesnt grab my attention enough to even try and hear it better. The Bad Mouths describe themselves as no-nonsense, catchy, up-tempo rock band No-nonsense, okay. Catchy and up-tempo, n-o spells nah-ah. And then, read the opening in the liner notes Dear Parents: It is of a deep sense of moral and social responsibility that I alert you to my discovery of a new effort by amoral, godless, nonconforming neer-do-wells to seduce your children and not a small number of adults into lives of delusion, aural pleasure, and worst of all-hope for their own chance at lives of sin gone unpunished. What the? My response exactly. If you didnt already think these guys were bad, this and the remainder of the self-fulfilling, third person perspective babble will really put you over the edge. No fun.
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