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Pink Spiders - Teenage Graffiti

The Pink Spiders seemed to be one of the highlighted groups on 2006's Warped Tour, and with a new CD coming out on a major label; I was really worried about these guys getting over hyped.  I have a copy of their previous CD, Hot Pink, and thought that with the right influence that they had some serious potential as more pop than punk Pop Punk band (a la Bowling For Soup), but with more of a 80's new wave twist.  Once I found out that Ric Ocasek (from the 80's band The Cars) was producing the CD, I really had very high hopes for Teenage Graffiti.  But, it turns out that the raw sound that I loved on Hot Pink is totally gone, and what is worse, the most of the best songs from Hot Pink are redone on Teenage Graffiti.  I really thought that Ric Ocasek would be a perfect fit for their sound, as if they were around back when The Cars were big, Pink Spiders would have been deemed a decent knock off of the Cars.  I'm not saying that you shouldn't buy Teenage Graffiti, as it is a pretty good CD, but I had higher hopes for it.  If you are looking for some pop punk with a tinge of rockabilly (maybe even a little early Beatles), you may want to check out Teenage Graffiti.  If you want more of a rockabilly/early Beatles, check out Hot Pink.  My favorite songs are Little Razorblade, Modern Swinger, Hollywood Fix, and Going Steady.

Published Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:26 PM by donxml
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About donxml

I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.
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