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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Do Me Bad Things - Yes!


So here's the thing about this: everything I know about this band/album is what I've read on the internet, from the very few album and live reviews I've managed to find. The reason for this is that Do Me Bad Things are an act that has not even attempted to break into the United States, where I've wasted my entire life away.
Do Me Bad Things are a British nonet (that's nine people) that apparently even the British don't want to hear all that much from. There was a great deal of speculation surrounding the band, as they were signed by Must Destroy Records, home of gaudy joke/serious rock band The Darkness, and they were hyped as the next Scissor Sisters. If those two comparisons didn't scare away enough people, the fact that there were nine people on stage certainly did. When Yes! was released in April, it bombed fairly decently.
But here's the twist: its actually really, really good!
God bless the internet for finding the generosity to throw this album at me when I didn't know anything about it.
The songs are like grand 80's metal power ballads with a disco sensibility and R&B diva vocals. The nine person band isn't a gimmick, but a powerful well of talent used wisely. Vocals are swapped back and forth between three girls and two or three guys, I have trouble telling sometimes. Its four or five eras of classic rock jumbled up into modern day pop songs. Reccomended for anyone who likes Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Elton John, Manic Street Preachers, any of that stuff.

The two songs I'm sharing from it should give you a decent idea what the band's about. There's the unrelenting opening rocker "Time For Deliverance," and the epically soulful "Suburban Flame." It might be hard at first to believe that these are both off of the same album by the same band, but they are and the rest of the album is just as interesting. People are going to be sorry they scoffed at these guys and gals. And word is their live show is nothing short of phenomenal.

Time For Deliverance MP3
Suburban Flame MP3

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