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Crazy Mary:
Thirsty for Cool
I guess Im obsessed with high school music references, because high school was my golden age as a musician. Or at least I thought it was. I was the vocalist and lead guitarist for The Merchants, one of the best bands playing the circuit at the time. (The circuit consisted of a church basement that was used for a high school club that put concerts on every Friday night to raise money.) I was considered a pretty good musician back then I could play pentatonic scales faster than any of my friends, and because I had played a little piano in middle school, I was a multi-instrumentalist. Crazy Marys seventh release takes me back six or seven years to the days of the Merchants. I say this with no nostalgia intended. Rather, I mean it as a reference to the days where my fashion choices, sexual episodes, and musical decisions were not only embarrassing, but worthy of a visit to Lacuna Industries. Thirsty for Cool is the epitome of the album that I strived to make when I was 15 or 16. Maybe it wasnt that I was striving to make it, but I didnt have the talent or knowledge to write anything better. Instead I wrote predictable tunes with bad melodies, poor guitar parts, bad vocals, and lyrics that didnt mean anything. Hell, I didnt have time to write lyrics! I was trying to get the distortion just right on my practice amp. Crazy Mary also decided to do something that I once actually fell victim to: What could I do to make it seem like Im more sophisticated of a musician than I really am? I know! I can ask a few buddies to play three note horn lines that are totally unnecessary...... They take away from the vocal line? I dont care, they sound cool, and now we have horns in our band! And what was a high school band without the cover? To choose the right song was one of hardest and most time-consuming decisions you ever had to make. It had to show that you knew music, but you werent trying too hard. It had to be obscure, but not too obscure that nobody would know the song. Crazy Mary manages to pick just that song. They cover There She Goes Again by The Velvet Underground and Nico. They do a mediocre at best rendition of the Lou Reed classic. The vocals, like in every song, are sung like a choir student who left choir to sing in a rock band. Only this choir student didnt quit; she was kicked out. Thirsty for Cool is unlistenable. If my 16-year-old self made a record that sounded like this, I would have made sure that none of my college friends ever got their hands on it.
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