Regular John - The Devil's Melody/ Easy Rider (Album)
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It’s been a while since I thought that flannelette shirts and docs were an acceptable fashion statement, yet listening to this CD brings back memories from my childhood when the worst day of school was when dad ironed creases in my jeans. Oh yes, 90’s world is back! The days when Silverchair were angry punk kids and not pop idols and the only bands people cared about came from Seattle. Even the cover looks more 90’s grunge than most of the stuff from that time. The bio for Regular John reads like they tried so hard not to say “listened to Nirvana till their ears bled” that you know the second you hear the CD that that’s just what happened.
These boys seem to take a huge amount of pride for not being from Sydney where they could have been tainted by the fashionistas and the latest fading music trends and have somehow created something a lot more pure. All that means is they haven’t bought a CD since 1992, and to boot, they’ve been locked away in rural NSW their whole lives brooding about it. And not getting out of the house for 20 odd years would make anyone angry. That’s what this sounds like. Angry guys who just needed to get the hell out of the house and get a girlfriend. However, unlike the high school bands that I avoided eye contact with who substituted lyrics for screaming and music for 10 minutes of distortion these guys actually can actually restrain their anger into 3 and a half minutes of exciting fuzzy guitar song. It doesn’t reek of every Nirvana song ever written and kind of sounds a bit more like tight Queens of the Stone Age. The two songs in question aren’t anything I’d rave about other than it’s a nice change from the bands that decided to further their music careers they needed 80’s keyboards and not a better songwriter. I like the ‘Easy rider’ more than the second song but probably cause I’m a bit soft.
Poking fun at 90’s world aside I actually want to hear more form this band. Unlike a lot of bands from 90’s world.
