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...animal foul a neighbor's lawn and claim it's in the spirit of the holiday. Usually ranging from around $10 to $20, the getups are at least a little cheaper than dressing up Billy as Spider-man, although you may pay more later should Rex require deworming after gob-bling a dodgy pumpkin. If you can't prepare your pet for Halloween, there are other holiday dress up opportunities. They include Shalom Pup (blue Star of David scarf and hat) and Santa Claws...
Also by 1998, Gob was working with the big-budget motion picture industry. They covered The Rolling Stones’ standard, “Paint It Black” for the soundtrack of Artisan Pictures’ feature film Stir of Echoes. Starring Kevin Bacon, the film was released internationally and viewed by millions—about as mainstream as it gets...
...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 to Gob...
...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...
...Gob are bad punks, and make no bones about it. So where does that leave those who criticize them in terms of their punk violations? Nursing their own straw men. While their commercial efforts are, in the eyes of most punk rockers, ignoble, even criminal, it is hard to argue with any band who have chosen to share their music with a greater number, to spread whatever message they have (or pretend to have), rather than stroking the angsty egos of a highly insular—and an increasingly elitist and hierarchical—punk culture. They...