Word: reel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reel Big Fish...
Their rhythms are bouncy, their music is happy and their lyrics are sick and twisted. In their latest album, Why Do They Rock So Hard, Reel Big Fish take the emotionally contradictory world of ska and exploit its inconsistencies for all they're worth...
...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...
...then there's the fame fetish. Maybe they're arrogant, maybe they're insecure or maybe they're just normal guys who happen to have come up with a bunch of songs about being famous, but Reel Big Fish certainly spend more than enough time singing about being stars. Their comments on popularity range from the extraordinarily subtle "Big Star"-"Now that I'm a big star what am I gonna do/I'm so bored countin' all my money"--to the potential attempt at modesty "I'm Cool" (a remake of the hidden track on Turn the Radio...
...everyone loves them--how very, very sad. Not only should the band please all of the people all of the time, but if they don't it's the fault of the listeners who, in their infinite bad taste, don't happen to like the sound of Reel Big Fish...