Word: veruca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Responsible for the robust sound on the album is producer Brad Wood, whose portfolio includes Liz Phair and Veruca Salt. In fact, the grunge-pop arrangements on the album recall Veruca Salt and are no doubt attributable in part to Wood's production. Wood's insistence on precise recording allows the band to "sound like we're playing live in your living room," as Lane says...
...Veruca Salt...
Joyful rock 'n' roll on Veruca Salt's debut...
...Veruca Salt isn't one of them. On the group's debut CD, American Thighs, singer-guitarist Nina Gordon, singer-guitarist Louise Post, bassist Steve Lack and drummer Jim Shapiro make music that is both disturbingly dysfunctional and thoroughly enjoyable. The band's lyrics are downbeat, fuzzy and weird while the tunes are upbeat and full of melodic guitar bravado. On the energetic Celebrate You, Post sings, "And in the dream/ You held a gun/ You killed off all who hurt you," accompanied by bright, jangling guitars. On All Hail Me, when Post cries, "I killed your baby...
...again." The song closes with a thunderous guitar solo that evokes the frustration and jubilation of being in one's 20s -- sort of like MTV's The Real World packed into a couple dozen screeching notes. It's moments like the one at the end of 25 that separate Veruca Salt from bands that deserve the squirrel treatment. The members allow themselves to be caught up in the joy of playing rock 'n' roll, and they take their listeners along...