 |  | Mustard Plug - 'Evildoers Beware' (Hopeless Records) |  |
Review number 40. Not exactly my cup of tea, but I thought I'd maybe check out some ska-punk - so I've heard it's called. The Grand Rapids band's second of five CD's. Tunes I was somewhat inspired by are "Never Be", "Mendosa", the slamming "Not Again", the swinging "Sadie May" and "Dressed Up". This is the sort of music I've seen turned up to '10' at college campus parties. Should do a lot for fans of Voodoo Glow Skulls, Save Ferris, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish.
October 10, 2008Great Ska punk CD, and of the Mustard Plug catalog, this one is my favorite. If you are trying to decide which MP cd to pick up this is the one.
March 4, 2008I love this cd. I love ska and punk, but as a mother of two I like it to be not only clean but intelligent. Mustard Plug does not disappoint. Very smart. Very fun. Perfect.
December 12, 2005This is an amazing ska cd by an amazing band. There music sounds awesome and the horn parts are especially cool. I don't really have much more to say about this cd other than "buy it". In my opinion, it is the best "Mustard Plug" cd out of the four I know of (Yellow # 5, Big Daddy Multitude, & Pray for Mojo are the names of the other three).
Overall, I give this album the highest score possible because I like ska a lot & "Evildoers Beware!" is my favorite cd by "Mustard Plug", which is one of my favorite ska bands.
I almost forgot to add: the best songs are Box, You, Go, & Beer Song.
I hope this review helped you.
August 4, 2005Not much to say about this one. People said it was good so I got it, it was clearly a disappointment. I'm not orginally a ska-fan, I'm more into hardcore and punk, but I got into ska anyway becouse of all the skatepunk bands that play ska, NOFX of course, but mostly Operation Ivy(not really skatepunk though). "Energy" is probably the best ska/skapunk album ever, but Choking Victim's "No Gods, No Managers" together with both records by Leftover Crack is up there too. As some of yuo will understand, I'm more into the superfast ska mixed with hardcore more than Mustard Plug's ska-pop. Couse this isn't ska-punk, or even pop-punk/ska. Without speed, ska tends to get kind of boring. I can see why fans of Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger could like this, although this is softer than even them. Let's face it, all thoose bands are ska-pop bands (or just pop bands in later years) and not ska-punk bands. The only ska/pop-punk records i can stand is the records by Less Than Jake before hey sold out and "Why Do They Rock So Hard" by Reel Big Fish becouse they still are catchy. But this band goes so far beyond the pop limit, that you loose the wanting to headbang and sing along at all. I would instead recommend Catch 22 ("Keasby Nights" the only good album), the great Mad Caddies and the poppy but still talented Big D And The Kids Table. Plus of course the earlier mentioned ones.
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