The Yuppie Pricks
Broken Banquet (Alternative Tentacles)
by Scott Hefflon
The Yuppie Pricks are what’s missing from punk rock: The ability to make fun of everything including themselves, without being ironic about it. From the opening blast of “Coke Party,” you either get it, or you’re a moron. Imagine a younger (ahem, and funnier) Jello Biafra (ex-Dead Kennedys’ singer, owner of Alternative Tentacles, and if I needed to tell you that, uh, seriously, brush up a bit, huh?) fronting a lively band, the concept being kids in it for the blow, the blowjobs, and cuz they can. Punk rock, in other words. Not since Strapping Young Lad’s Devin Townsend and friends chuckled their way through the criminally-unknown Punky Brüster’s Cooked on Phonics has punk rock been so accurately parodied.
The Yuppie Pricks are a riot. They can play, they write good songs, you can sing along and bop yer head. This CD isn’t going to sell well, and there’s no ad dollars or promotion behind it. It’ll be the secret of real punks mocking the fake punks, the way it should be.
(www.alternativetentacles.com)