This week I stuck primarily to reviving dead links (see my last two entries for details), and I didn't have a chance to fool around with my turntable or tape deck...but I do have this, and it's more promising than you might surmise from this quartet bearing a rather hokey moniker. Details are a bit scant on the
Heebee Jeebeez (boy, I hope that name didn't doom them from scoring gigs) but this Bay Area export were a talented combo, specializing in plaintive, sonically spartan power pop who wagered on the trebly end of the spectrum. No overproduction or slavish studio pizazz here - not by a longshot in fact. It's a bit tricky to link them to the modus operandi of many (if any) of their '90s contemporaries. Cockeyed Ghost perhaps, but even that comparison isn't especially accurate.
All Sales Are Vinyl is saturated with concise, incisively catchy salvos, with "Somebody Else's" and "Outside" winning the most points with yours truly. The Heebees only falter on the unlisted concluding cut, "Push It," which can easily be excised from your playlist if you so choose.
01. Don't Tell Me
02. Calling All Over
03. Come On
04. Outside
05. Walk Away
06. Out of Time
07. Somebody Else's
08. Favorite Song
09. Anytime
10. Certain Kind of Girl
11. Told You
12. Wherever You Go
13. Push It
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2 comments:
I am stunned to see this here, as it's incredibly rare and unknown. But it's great. Awesome, even. If you like stripped-down, no-fuss power pop, this is the disc for you. "My Favorite Song" is a keeper.
This is right up my alley. Reminds a bit of Sacramento's the decibels (and their precursor the e-types). Thanks.
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