Word: fucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reel Big Fish described Turn the Radio Off as an album "about being in a band that doesn't go anywhere, and the girls who fuck you over along the way." Why Do They Rock So Hard, similarly, is "about being part of the record industry and being fucked, and the girls who fuck you over along the way." Asked about the increased hostility that this transition has brought to the band's music, trumpet and flugelhorn player Tavis Werts explains that lyricist Aaron Barrett "writes the lyrics from what he is feeling at the moment, and obviously...
fugly: (adj.) fuck + ugly. "No means no. I don't want to have sex with you, fugly...
...glasses and a pink sweatshirt. She's chatting with a man tinkering with the monstous engine of his Mustang. "What's it like running out there?" she responds to our question, "Tonight was shitty. The accelerator was loose and the fuckin 'clutch jammed and I was slipping all-the-fuck-over the place!. But it's always something, I guess. It's good times, though." Could you really do any better at Lucky Cheng...
Ultimately, Fuck is at their best when they are sincere, and this sincerity arises primarily in the many slow, contemplative ballads on Conduct.The last song on the album, "blind beauty," is a lovely and fitting end to an album that strives to take itself seriously with a variety of incongruous textures, styles and ambiguous messages. In an arrangement Fuck seems to favor, a single guitar strums slow chords, accompanied only by a simple snare beat and an extremely sparse bass line. Prodhumme sings without affectation or stylized humor about the inability of anyone to truly know themself: "Talkin...
...peaceful acceptance of ambiguity, Fuck ends the album with an admission that they don't really know who they are. They are content, ultimately, to be stuck between styles with a name that has seemingly nothing to do with who they are. Listening to Fuck, one never feels the need for reconciliation. The lack of sense makes sense--disorder, after all, is sometimes a necessary relief. And what really is in a name? In the end, would Fuck by any other (rational) name really sound as sweet...