God Don't Make No Trash-Up Your Ass With Broken Gl [EP]

The Falcon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 14, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Label: Red Scare
• ASIN: B0009H54M8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,330 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fans of the Lawrence Arms' Brendan Kelly are virtually gauranteed to enjoy this, January 9, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: God Don't Make No Trash-Up Your Ass With Broken Gl (Audio CD)

If you are a fan of the Lawrence Arms, in specific, the raspy Brendan Kelly (formerly of Slapstick, Broadways), then you are going to enjoy this very short, but addictive set of five songs. They are catchy, raspy, pop-punk songs, and practically indistinguishable from any previous Brendan Kelly Lawrence Arms tracks.
And therein lies my one complaint- there is no experimentation going on here- it is the same formula as the Lawrence Arms, albeit with different bandmates. I love the Lawrence Arms, and love this short ep, but honestly, creating a "side project" that is virtually identical to your regular band makes little to no sense.
(Basically, Brendan seems to have just wanted to make his own cd, separate from Chris, where he sings everything).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent punk in the vien of Lawrence Arms/Alkaline Trio, December 27, 2005

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Destroy Boy (www.ohboydestroy.com) - See all my reviews

This review is from: God Don't Make No Trash-Up Your Ass With Broken Gl (Audio CD)

Here's a fun side band from the singer/bassist and the drummer from The Lawrence Arms, the
singer/bassist from Alkaline Trio and a dude from Rise Against. It's an extremely short EP,
clocking in with just five short songs but what great songs they are. For a starting point, they
sound similar to the punkier, harder edged songs The Lawrence Arms writes half the time (not
the Jawbreaker type emo ones) but with a bit more experimentation and some small elements
of Alkaline Trio. To give you an idea, on a couple of these cuts you can hear liberal use of
Spanish themed acoustic guitar mixed in with the trademark galloping distorted guitars and
drums used by Alkaline Trio. This sounds like mixing oil and water but it's really catchy.

The vocals are all handled by the guy from The Lawrence Arms which really suits the music more
than the more emo singer from Alkaline Trio. In terms of delivery, he has really perfected the
high-register, slightly screamo, almost unintelligible, double layered sound he has been
dabbling with on the last The Lawrence Arms record (listen to the song "On With The Show" if you
want to know what I'm talking about). I can see not everyone appreciating this but over the last
several years I think he's gone from a cheap wannabe cockney accent to a very distinctive sound
that's totally unique.

Seeing that this sucker only has five songs I'll wrap this review up but it's safe to say that if you've
liked the direction The Lawrence Arms have been going in and appreciate the punkier songs
sung by the scratchy throated guy then you will really dig this short but sweet record.

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