Troublesome Bubblegum

Electrocute, ????????? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Label: EMPEROR NORTON
• ASIN: B0007X6838
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #994,719 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

With their reform school pouts, Electrocute's Nicole Morier and Holly Doll are the bad girls every son's mother warns them about. Bratty, slutty, and too fast for love, they're like a degenerate version of the B-52's, or Cibo Matto after a stretch in prison. On the surface, Morier and Doll seem unconcerned about who they sound like, or what you might think about them. Troublesome Bubblegum works hard to cultivate that spoiled attitude, and though it desperately wants to seem tossed-off and blasé, the girls-gone-bad hijinks can't hide the obvious skill involved. It may be filtered through a high-tar cigarette, but the production on tracks like "Fun Is A Floppy Bitch" is awfully clever for the trashy tarts Morier and Doll portray. The obvious dichotomy keeps the record interesting well after the raunch and sass have worn thin. Electro has been everywhere for years now, and some might say the bloom is off that particular rose. But genre-blending records like this one show how flexible it can be, and what might yet be squeezed out of it. –Matthew Cooke

Product Description

TRACKLISTING 1. Tales Of Ordinary Sadness 2. Nobody Likes Us 3. Shag Ball 4. Fun Is A Floppy Bitch 5. Venus Fly Trap 6. Jet Set Boy 7. Cops Copulating 8. Blow It 9. Dogs 'N' Dolls 10. Two Lane Blacktop 11. Goodbye Johnny 12. Kleiner Dicker Junge 13. North 14 14. Car Bomb Derby

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING AMAZING, April 2, 2006

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Alexander Scott Warren (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Troublesome Bubblegum (Audio CD)

I love electrocute. they're bouncy and silly and fun.

I dance around my room to electrocute about ten times a day.

Yes it's true.

[buy this if you like bubblegum pop / female vocals / fun lyrics]

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars crazy and cool, October 13, 2005

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kristie6060 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Troublesome Bubblegum (Audio CD)

i first discovered this band on the Spongebob Squarepants Movie soundtrack with their song "Bikini Bottom". I love the album. They sound like the B-52s and the Cramps with electronic beats. Definitly a good saturday night record. It's everything but boring.

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhere inbetween, April 28, 2006

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C. D. Murphy (Natick, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Troublesome Bubblegum (Audio CD)

Dionne's description below is sometimes very very accurate. However there are a few catchy tunes and they tend to find themselves at the end of the album, almost as if they laid them down in order and started to figure out their problems. The songs toward the end stop relying too heavily on guitars, get a little poppier, and definitely find some decent hooks. Kliener Dicker Junge is a great little pop song and I have just discovered that it somehow become my top played song on my I-pod. So I would say 1 for the first half and a 3.5 for the second half of the album. Too bad you can't buy half of it:)