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...What Gob??and most punk revival bands of any commercial note—fail to realize, is that punk exists in words and not notes (that in fact punk is about a devaluing of musicianship), and that love songs in the guise of punk chord progressions just don’t cut it. This, though, isn’t yet a complete value judgment: We’ve said only that Gob fails as a punk band, not as a band at large...
When Gob first formed in 1993 in Vancouver, their counter-cultural, disgruntled demeanor would have satisfied any punk purist’s criteria. Plenty of classic punk themes and characteristics are found, for example, in Gob??s first full-length album, Too Late...No Friends...
Time, though, wore down the rough-hewn edges of Gob??s political and social outlook. Their next album—the 1998 release How Far Shallow Takes You—is, in its insouciance, vastly different from Too Late. The song titles alone reveal as much: The list of tracks list is conspicuously devoid of such titles as “Fuck them” and “Asshole,” two tracks from Too Late. Lyrically, the songs are much tamer, and indicate a shift in focus towards some of punk music?...
...difficult to envision the early Gob??the Gob that so unflinchingly berated conformity—releasing a cover on a big-budget feature film. And that brings us to Gob??s most recent album, The World According...
...World According to Gob, is, by their own admission, Gob??s most commercial effort to date. There is an extra “merchandise” insert in the sleeve of the CD—an appropriate visual preface to the cushy listening experience that one is about to abide. The album’s opening gesture, “For the Moment” reflects languishingly on past and unrequited love affairs: “But I cling to you for survival / And I know that you are my Bible.” Moderately distorted, muted, heavily...