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It's not often that I pick up a 7" record and I'm blown away by the cover. The cover to the first 45 by Seattle folk-punkers Meisce (pronounced Mesh-Kyuh) caught my eye right away with it's excellent layered wood-cut look.
If the cover wasn't enough for me buy it the song titles, "The Death of Michael Flatley" and "Drunk & Alone", were sure fire selling points. I wasn't let down by shelling out cash for this at my local punk rock emporium.
The term "punk" gets bandied about frequently in the music scene, so much so that it's hard to give credence to many of the bands who use it. But punk-savant Reverend Norb has the argument that if you write songs that piss off your parents then you're punk. By this basic guideline the seven man crew from the Pacific Northwest earns the term punk on this 45's A-Side.
"The Death of Michael Flatley" is a gleefully mean-spirited attack on the self-proclaimed "Lord of the Dance". Anyone who's had to cringe through a River Dance show will find them smiling a wicked grin over this barn-burner of a song. After all the tame "celtic" music that gets sold in convenience stores it's nice to have a raging antidote.
Not that the B-Side is mellow. It shouldn't come as a surprise to any band whose name means "drunk" that they would include a drinking song. "Drunk & Alone" starts off like a celtic-rock dirge before kicking into high spirited gear fueled by plenty of spirits. If this doesn't get the crowd dancing at shows I don't know what will.
Two songs, two sides, a few bucks... if you own a turntable "Bored of the Dance" is worth your time.
Meisce:
http://www.meisce.com/
http://www.myspace.com/meisce
Fistolo Records:
http://www.fistolo.com/
http://www.myspace.com/fistolorecords
Aborted Society Records:
http://www.abortedsociety.com/new/home.html
http://www.myspace.com/abortedsocietyrecords |
