Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good will and generosity, the band continues on to the buoyant "Brand New Song," beginning, "I've got a brand new girlfriend/She is so lovely lovely/I've got a new ex-girlfriend/She is so fat and ugly." In fact, all of the songs on Why Do They Rock So Hard revolve around the inability of the singer to relate in any reasonable way to the people around him. Reminiscent of the song "Skatanic" on the band's last album, Turn the Radio Off, their words are fairly uniformly-and less than subtly-based on hatred, lashing out particularly...
...THEY ROCK SO HARD...
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...
...true ska fashion, with their upbeat music, the members of Reel Big Fish make Why Do They Rock So Hardfun in spite of its dysfunctional lyrics. The music on the album is not radical for ska--many of the songs sound borderline generic at first, using ska rhythms and instrumentation in predictable ways. But the music is not bland. The melodies are lively and infectious, the band uses short drum, brass, and guitar features to good effect and, musically, the vocals are interesting and well performed. Songs such as "You Don't Know" and "The Set Up [You Need This...