Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dinnuh's in the cellar, I can smell 'er" with an almost Kurt Cobain-ish seriousness, then shifts into the light-hearted teenage chorus "I wanna get cheeky with ya, I wanna get squeakly inside ya--lying through your teeth for a week!" on "Squeaky." If you come to Stupid, Stupid, Stupid with certain antigravity expectations, these lyrics will make you jealous. Distancing themselves from their subject matter through sarcasm, Black Grape come over to the audience, throwing a post-rock party where drugs, ex-girlfriends, and guitar solos are just instruments for the bands to play...
...guessed, there is nothing dim or self-conscious about Stupid, Stupid, Stupid. It's the second album from Black Grape, resurrected pop-maverick Shaun Ryder's comeback band. Rapper Paul "Kermit" Leveridge counterpoints Ryder's slow whines with sarcastic ribbets and deep-throated chants. These two are the front men for a liberating eclecticism that trickles down to every arrangement on the album...
Gleefully banging around on sitars, harmonicas, horns, Hammond B-3's and flutes, other band members Carl "Psycho" McCarthy, Danny Saber, Paul "Wags" Wagstaff, Ged Lynch and Martin Slattery reduce their basic guitar, drum and bass sounds into nothing more than a wooden easel on which to paint. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid opens its arms wide and embraces the world with a sarcastic life, claiming copyright by lyrical fiat...
...first track on Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, "Get Higher," begins with the announcement from a Ronald Reagan impersonator than, unfortunately, there is a marijuana shortage. This is the kind of thing that makes one wonder why the band is bothering to play. But by the time "Reagan" announces that furthermore, he and Nancy are also hooked on heroin, the beat on "Get Higher" has set up shop in the listener's mind, and nothing could seem more logical than the rhythmic wailing that follows the sound...
...popular arrangements and sound bites of Western culture. On "Marbles," Kermit's soft spoken rap pulls a danceable pulse out of the rambling cowboy melody that eventually surrenders to a rousing disco-esque horn section. Only the fifth track, "Rubber Band," goes too far. Where the rest of Stupid, Stupid, Stupid makes a cheerfully boisterous rewiring of the listener's head, "Rubber Band" pummels it with a crow...