Boy Hits Car [Explicit Lyrics]

Boy Hits Car | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 23, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Wind-Up
• ASIN: B000056CAD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (80 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,551 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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Nu metal might be the movement we should thank for flushing out some of rock's hoarier old clichés, but with the rock & roll ranks beginning to resemble a Marine roll call, what with all those bulging biceps and close haircuts, it's comforting that the self-titled release from Los Angeles's Boy Hits Car is able to reconcile the savage razor's edge of Papa Roach with some of the flamboyancy of alternative music. Their second album offers a number of pleasantly contrary moments, not the least of which include "The Rebirth" (which summons recollections of the Screaming Trees) and "As I Watch the Sun F**k the Ocean" (recalling Jane's Addiction). While the band falls short in spots, their bit-of-this, bit-of-that dynamic works surprisingly smoothly throughout, as rolls of heavy riffage break over flute, bongo, and tabla. Boy Hits Car might be a little too off-center to topple the likes of Papa Roach from nu metal's zenith, but this fine album is a reminder that an alternative take on a genre can restore faith in the definite article. --Louis Pattison

About the Artist

We're Boy Hits Car. My name is Scott, I'm the bass player and this is our bio in my own words:

Louis (guitar), Craig (vocals, acoustic 12-string guitar), and I all grew up together from early childhood. Louis and Craig were neighbors in the same condo complex and knew each other since they were wearing diapers. I lived a mile away so it wasn't until the beginning of elementary school that my path crossed with theirs. In 1990 Craig told me that we had to form a band. "Scott, you've already been playing bass, Lou's been playing guitar--he can play all kinds of Slayer and Metallica stuff--and I can sing!" A mutual friend of ours played drums and our first band was formed. We played parties and had fun and all was going well until our drummer quit to join another band. We found Michael through a "Drummer Wanted" ad placed in an L.A. paper and in February of 1993 Boy Hits Car was born. We wrote songs and gigged locally. Los Angeles has what we call the "pay-to-play" circuit where certain clubs will charge bands sometimes as much as several hundred dollars to pre-sell tickets to their own show which ensures them a slot on a good bill. Since we always agreed bands shouldn't have to pay money to express their art we opted not to take that route. Why do what is expected of you? Why let the car hit you? We agreed to stand strong as the boy and hit the car. Going it this way was sometimes tough. We never did pay-to-play but with no fan base we were given the worst possible time slots, like 12:15am on a Tuesday or 7:30pm on a Friday. We got used to playing for next to no one and in turn, we learned how to play for ourselves, to connect with each other, to feed off each other's energy and give it our all: blood, sweat, and tears (literally). We became stronger as a unit. In March of 1995 a booking agent got hold of our demo tape and sent us out on a six-week tour. We'd hardly been out our front door and there we were traveling across the country, just the four of us and all our equipment in our brown van, "Scooby", living together, playing our music, and growing closer as band mates and as brothers. We were still playing to next to no one but we were living our dream. Once home, we wrote more songs, played more gigs, and recorded more demo tapes. We did some more short tours over the country and in 1997 we got signed to a very independent record label. We recorded our first album, "My Animal" (released in May 1998). We gave it all we had but the label gave it no promotion and two weeks after its limited release and low sales, they dropped us. Feeling discouraged and disheartened we pressed on and believed in the music we were creating and ourselves. We continued to do what we had always done. We played more gigs with shoddy time slots and toward the end of 1999 we began garnering interest from various record labels and in January 2000 we signed with our first choice, Wind-up Records. In February we picked up a handful of dates on the Sno-Core tour opening for System Of A Down, Incubus, and Mr. Bungle and recently we opened for Papa Roach on a couple of dates, layin' it down to some crazy crowds. As I write this we are in the studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, recording our new full-length album, scheduled for release in January 2001. I know not where tomorrow will take us; all I know is where we are today. And today I feel fortunate to be able to create and play beautiful music with my three brothers. And in this moment we are pouring everything we've got into this record to make it the sickest, loveliest, ugliest, prettiest, most beautiful, melodic, heartfelt album coming at ya straight from the depths of our soul. People always ask me, what does Boy Hits Car stand for? My answer is simple: Boy Hits Car believes in living from the heart and following your dream. It doesn't matter what your passion is or what you do, it just matters that you do it with love.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars rawest new band of the year, June 6, 2001

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Kellen (Libertyville, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boy Hits Car (Audio CD)

One of the many great things about Boy Hits Car's new self titled cd is that although it recalls many different bands (that range from Papa Roach to Led Zeppelin to System of a Down to Incubus) it supercedes all of them and comes out with a completely distinct sound all its own. An intense, energetic, positive sound that is unlike any other band out there. This sound, deemed lovecore by the band, is powered by the driving beats laid down by bassist Scott and the lyrics of Cregg. Those lyrics, that immediately catch the listeners attention, shift from soothing melodies to pleading screams flawlessly. Unlike numetal bands, which Boy Hits Car is definitely not, the lyrics, which double easily as poetry, revert back to the days of Morrison. Another major difference between BHC and most numetal bands is that BHC preach love and finding oneself instead of anger and pot smoking. The first single "I'm a cloud" is a great example of the bands music. A bass driven song, helped by a sensitive guitar, it is more powerful than any song papa roach or limp bizkit has ever recorded. To believe its energy, one must hear it...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Boy Hits Car, the rebirth of Rage Against The Machine., January 23, 2001

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Francine Tepper "earth goddess" (Beaverton, OR (formerly of the Bronx, NY) USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boy Hits Car (Audio CD)

When I picked up their sampler from a concert for the Deftones and heard it, I was impressed. But when I downloaded a few of the songs on this album, I had to buy the CD. After having done so, I can tell you that I don't regret it. The lead singer (an 12 string acoustic guitarist!) sounds like Serj Tankian (SoaD) and Zack De La Rocha (RaTM) into one human powder keg! The bass is in full form and I am drawn into to the melody they use. Loud as hell and soft as heaven, I am a BIG fan of this band. Get this CD. Trust me.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent CD, December 21, 2003

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JacktheRIpper - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boy Hits Car (Audio CD)

Boy Hits Car has some of the most amazing lyrics and instrumentals. One of the great things about this CD is that every song is excellent not just a few. This is one of those CDs you just stick in and let play, instead of flipping through the songs.