Deth Dulas – Bridge Burners
Genre: Punk
Most people that play punk-rock music are the same as folks that visit the gym every day. They don’t need to, and letting other people know of this activity doesn’t make them more endearing. In fact, when someone tells their co-worker about how they plan to spend their weekend practicing with their punk band all day long, a look of concern is bound to appear on the face of the person being told this.
Overdoing these sorts of things is part of the prerequisites to getting started in the first place. The people that go to the gym every day, for the most part, aren’t hoping to become Mister Olympia. It is just something to do and, most importantly, something to do to get rid of the nervous energy that would otherwise be spent in a silly way.
Deth Dulas’ Bridge Burners is music that is made as a service to society. The alternative, one feels, would have been to beat people up as they try to cross the street. Is the sound excessive? Yes! Does the singer have to scream throughout the track? Most certainly! This is music for people that can’t just help themselves to one single espresso. And, it’s sure hard to imagine them getting on without this.
The Moröns – Southwood
Genre: Punk, Pop Punk
Similar artists:: Pulley, The Vandals, The Ramones
The folks that ended up being The Ramones grew up in the same neighborhood and soon had enough of each other. They love to squabble, usually in public. The topic that was most often part of the fights among the original four members of the band was about who came up with the concept.
Not only was the cartoon tough-guy image and sound of The Ramones going to influence countless bands across decades. No, more importantly, it was going to force Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, and Tommy to stand together for eternity. It was a fate worse than working the night shifts out in Queen. However, we are all in actual debt to their sacrifice.
The model crafted by The Ramones is well and perfectly represented by today’s crop of bands. The Moröns’ Southwood is a quick, 1,2,3,4 blast of punk-rock with a country twang. It’s a tune about life doing you wrong and about doing the best you can. It’s meant to be played to people that possess a similar level of energy and excitement as the band performing it. We owe it to the Queens quartet, and especially bands like The Moröns that are keeping the dream alive.
