Statutory Grape

Sissy Bar | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 16, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugar Fix Recordings
• ASIN: B000008A5A
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #550,198 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wily

2. Sno-Cave

3. Bald Man Be Free

4. Trailer Song

5. Magic Bunny

6. Why? (The Bowling Song)

7. Gin and Juice

8. Sad II Say

9. Punk Fries

10. The Bellman

11. Pear Shaped Girl

12. Do It!

13. Drunk Luv

14. Jackie

15. Kra-Z Weed

16. Driftwood Collection

17. (Our Pet Is...) Happy Pet

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lo-Fi Snoop Doggie Dogg? Ya gotta get it!, January 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Statutory Grape (Audio CD)

Musically, very similar to the first Rentals album. Vocally, very cute girl punk(ish) stuff. Lyrically, hillarious. Overall, wonderful when you just don't know what else to put on. This is the musical epitome of Los Angeles for those who get the joke. Though the lyrics are very funny, them music is very well written and (kind of well) performed. But the capper is "Gin and Juice." You don't get much funnier than that. Not to mention "Pear Shaped Girl" and the ever poigniant and truthful "Punk Fries." Buy it! Make them make another album!

4.0 out of 5 stars An unknown gem... though it's not for everyone, March 6, 2010

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S. Pisarek - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Statutory Grape (Audio CD)

This album is SILLY, overly-playful, and even cloying at times... yet really brilliant in its own way. The music can be odd and discordant, but somehow it just works for me. A lot of the songs are SO out-of-left field with their lyrics ("Magic Bunny" for one), that I can't help but smile when I listen. And personally I think that if music is making you smile, it's doing something right.

Then there's oddly touching songs like "Trailer Song", which is about someone longing for a double-wide trailer (for extra space) as a place to call home... and though it may be meant as a tongue-in-cheek shot at that mentality (I really couldn't say), I find the melancholy almost washboard-sounding music to be strangely touching. I just downloaded another album by this band and I'm excited to listen, and I actually wish I could see them play live. Yeah, that's how much I dig this.

The music here is not for everyone, but if you like music that doesn't take itself too seriously, and you can deal with screeching horns that seem to come wailing out of nowhere, this album may certainly be worth a listen. I keep going back to it, and every time a song from this album comes up on my mp3 player's shuffle... I turn it up and smile.

All that being said, I just really want to know who Chris Howard is and why he won't give back their bowling balls. I mean, c'mon Chris... they're NOT your balls.

4.0 out of 5 stars light, bouncy music, May 18, 2008

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This review is from: Statutory Grape (Audio CD)

I heard much of this album at Spaceland in 1996. Light, bouncy music. The girls in the band were also very nice to look at. They certainly attracted a lot of blokes in the audience.

The blending of the instruments and vocals was well done and very balanced. The vocals come thru clearly.

Unfortunately, the band broke up around 2001. They seemed so promising. :(