Can I See the Back of Your Neck?

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by Sheril Stanford

Five bands, ten tracks, and a fine ten tracks they are, Wally. Guaranteed to make you smile, or at least scratch your head and say, “Huh?” are two offerings from one of the best bands to come down the Belgian pike in a long while, Metal Molly (they claim they are Belgium’s finest export since the waffle, but I think those little Belgium chocolates shaped like sea shells could give ’em a run for their money). A goofy band that claims among their influences the Beatles, the Pixies, themselves, Bart Simpson, Ween and Mozart, Metal Molly fits right in on this compilation sprinkled liberally with cheesy dialogue from B-movie Invaders From Mars. If you were within range of a radiowave within the last year, you are intimately familiar with Jars of Clay and their ever-so-popular tune “Flood.” Now you can hear it AGAIN, this time in an accoustic version. You also get a tune called “Four Seven.” If the Jars are a little too earnest fer ya, thre’s always the tracks from fuckin’ Huntington Beach’s fuckin’ Hed, fuckin’ making hip hop fuckin’ funk set to raging fuckin’ guitars or fuckin’ psychedelic rambles, depending on thier fuckin’mood. This dandy little compilation serves up five bands on autobahn … songeven.” If thedelic rambles, depending on thei And from two of Britain’s worst neighborhoods come Brixton’s Livingstone and Manchester’s Solar Races. “Little Cow” by Solar Races is a phenomenal cut, spare and scratchy, with Eilidh Bradley’s vocals hautingly removed and dsitant from the rest of the song. Drink my piss indeed. Livingstone’s “So Tough (When He’s Away) is one chord would-you-like-a-smile-with-that? hop pop and surf influenced guitar lines roar their way through “Gangsta.”