Ok, let’s add this up- hot chick on bass and sometimes vox,
Gun Club
cover, big pop hooks exploding everywhere, wall-to-wall Blondie-isms,
songs about the radio, swiped Replacements riffs (by accident, even), and enough
youthful exuberance to keep Elizabeth Bathory in blood baths all winter
long. Oh, and twin guitar riff-rock riots. If all that doesn’t equal ‘hit
record’, well, perhaps it’s an even crazier world than I thought. BSB
are
from LA, they know a whole lot about erotic jello molds, they have a song
on the soundtrack of an Adrian Zmed movie (and they readily admit the
fact, which is pretty cool), and their songs stick in your head in exactly
the way that the red stuff on a hot candy apple sticks to the roof of your
mouth- burns right in and stays sweet for hours.
Picture the Primitives playing a bunch of X, Runaways, and
Redd Kross tunes, and you’ve pretty much got the Bang Sugar Bang sound. I fully
expect the next record to be an animated feature film, where the band
fight giant gorillas with pulsing brains and bulldozer teeth, and the good
guys win, early and often. Superpop, then? Yep. Superpop it is.