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Business Casual

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That is the best way to describe this album. It will make you dance, it will make you laugh, it will throw your entire body into a seizure-like tantrum that won't stop until the album is over.

Beep Beep's style is very distinctive in the sense that I've heard nothing like it. If you mixed the vocals from The Pixies, The Rapture, and Cursive with a more frenzied At The Drive-In with The Faint-esque keyboards you'd be somewhere close. The lyrics are cynical and sarcastic like those of Jello Biafra. I can't wait until the next album to hear what else these guys come up with.

1. I Am The Secretary - 5/5 - This was the song that turned me on to Beep Beep. The chaotic vocals and guitars make this song an excellent start to the album.

2. Oh No! - 5/5 - Probably the most frenzied song on the album. It makes me dance.

3. Misuse Their Bodies - 5/5 - Another dancable song with a bit of slower beat and guitars similar to The Rapture. The back-up vocals on the chorus are beautiful.

4. Giggle Giggle - 5/5 - The song starts out with keyboards similar to The Faint and goes into a perverted frenzy about having sex with a high school cheerleader. Probably the most funny song on the album.

5. Electronic Wolves - 5/5 - A conga drum driven song about pornography.

6. Chewy Poison - 3/5 - A 41 second song about candy filled with poison. More of an interlude than a song.

7. Executive Foilage - 5/5 - Another awesome song with frenzied guitar and a business theme.

8. Flourescent Lights - 5/5 - A dancy song about the horrors of office life.

9. Vertical Cougar - 5/5 - A song about treating women as prey and men as the hunter

10. The Threat Of Nature - 5/5 - My favorite song on the album. A very sarcastic song about destroying nature.

This album is very innovative and a must-have if you're a fan of Indie rock with a more of a punk side.

I'll keep it concise: This album is akin to a bunch of gun-toting meth heads that have done shameful things to acquire their fix, and yet, when the opportunity presents itself, they will help a friend move or take out an elderly lady's garbage.



Great for working out.

Beep Beep just might be the most intense and sporadic album to ever come from the Saddle Creek family. The greatest thing about it is that BUSINESS CASUAL continually surprises the listener track after track. It'll make you want to dance... but not the kind of dancing you do in a club, trying to get the pretty brunette in the corner to notice you, it's the seizure-like aneurysm that shakes you from your brain to your toes. Drawing from the likes of XTC, Gang of Four, and Sparks, Beep Beep achieves a sound similar to modern bands like The Faint and The Rapture...on speed and ecstasy that is. Electrifying and perverse, it's the next album you're going to buy.

I bought the album based on the reviews and was very disappointed. I didn't find it to be witty, danceable, or charming. Musically, all the songs sound the same and the vocals are just unpleasantly shrill.

It's probably better suited for people who prefer energy above ingenuity.

This is demented rock n' roll of the finest (dis)order with vocals and lyrics that practically ooze sex and sleaze. For those who have only heard "i am the secretary" and "misuse their bodies" online, the first song is a much better indication of how the rest of the album sounds. There is sometimes little to distinguish between the songs, but whilst this is often the downfall of many albums, Beep Beep use it to their advantage; at only 28 minutes long "business casual" grips the listeners attention throughout, flowing seamlessly from track to track and forcing you to reach for the repeat button again and again - this is a great fun party album and there is not a single bad track on it. However, at the same time, there is no real song that can really be singled out for excellence, but nearly all the tracks do show flashes of brilliance. All in all this is a damn fine album that doesnt take itself too seriously and shines for that very reason.

sounds like... nothing that i have ever heard before. this is the kind of music that you dance (read "shake furiously and sporadically") to in your bedroom with the volume on 10. if you like early Q and not U, you will probably like "Business Casual". it is kind of like if "No Kill, No Beep Beep" was made while on speed. oh no!, misuse their bodies, and the flourescent lights are my favorite tracks on the cd. alot of the lyrics on this cd are sexually driven. great cd but not the best that i have heard, hence the 4 stars out of 5.

I Picked this up this past weekend while I was on vacation at a local record store in michigan, when I put down the copy of Straylight Run that I was going to buy and someone else picked it up and bought it. Lucky for me it was the last copy of that cd. I'm a big fan of Saddle Creek record bands and I had heard "I Am The Secretary" and "Misuse Their Bodies" online, but I really didn't know what to expect from this cd, and I know it's quite hard to find in a store. So I picked it up, not knowing much about it. I was pleasently suprised to see that it is indeed a very good album, but not great. I would say the songs you hear online are the 2 worst songs on the album. My favorite song on the album has to be "Oh No!" and the extremely sexually provacative "Giggle Giggle". These songs give you something different from hearing the same old screamo/emo that we are force fed these days. However, My big complaint with Beep Beep is that they heavily steal from Queens of the Stone Age. This album could actually pass for a new QOTSA album if it wanted, because it sounds exactly like that band on all the songs. That's my main reasonf or giving it a 4 our of 5. Otherwise, invest in it, it's well worth your time and money.