This next song is a mouthful. And that’s what she said. You know what else she said? “I Don’t Wanna Be A Housewife (For Someone Else’s Family).” I didn’t know that was a particular concern, unless you’re on one of those wife-swapping shows. Now the term “epic” is slightly overused here in the electronic information superhighway. This has sadly taken away some of the oomph that the word has. This song – which we will later refer to as an “opus” – qualifies for “epic” status. Will A Bit Much play this song live tonight at Radio? I hope for your sake that they do. Because you are going, right? Come on, it’s only the hottest new club in the world. And you like hot stuff, don’t you, Hot Stuff? Thought so.
As we understand it, it takes a lot of energy to be crazy. Almost as much energy as it takes to type out this whole song title. ”I Don’t Wanna Be A Housewife (For Someone Else’s Family)” is a dynamic and living organism. And it is a little wild – even though it has its own peculiar sense of order. Brimming to the tippety-top with crackling energy, this song’s dense mix keeps the entire ear/mind connection engaged. With two music stores full of instruments going off in the background, it sounds like anyone you know who plays an instrument might be encased in this recording. There’s a band in there somewhere, and finding them is half the fun. The rest of the sonic area seems full of a back alley worth of an electrified orchestra of insane players who must be out on work release from some wayward musicians’ program.
This track is like a rock opera condensed into one short attention span track. There is so much going on here but the mix remains engaging and not overwhelming. The song even establishes a few odd-interval motifs that wrest control of the mix every so often over the persistence of the bass/drums rhythm section. Saturated vocals appear and disappear sporadically, again, with their own bizarre sense of and respond order. The vocals help give the song a sense of shape and style – even though they are choruses embedded in an almost eight-minute long opus of madness, the choruses remain catchy and hooky.
This song is such a trip that the band could make this their entire live set and then storm off, leaving the audience fully satisfied if a bit bewildered. As in “What just happened?” and then A Bit Much is all “THAT just happened.” In song world, eight minutes should feel interminable, but “IDWBAH(FSEF)” is a positive delight in its stormy/silly symphonic way. There is so much going on (A Bit Much, maybe) that it seems almost impossible to keep track of it all – but it is a pleasurable storm to weather and appreciate.
Want to submit your band’s song to C.D. On Songs?
To be reviewed in a C.D. On Songs column, please:
*Be a Boston-based band/artist.
*Email a single mp3/m4a/etc. (or a download link to one) to cdonsongs (at) gmail (dot) com, with the subject line “C.D. on Songs” (DO NOT send us a bunch of songs and make us pick, we will ignore you). We require a file – not a streaming link.
*Include album cover art if you have any. If you don’t, a band photo or logo is acceptable.
*Tell us when you want to see it! Give us the date of your show and we’ll make sure it runs as close as possible to that day. No kidding.
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