"Silent Treatment From A Talking Horse"(OE002)
(click on song titles to hear MP3's!)
1.In Sin's Ear
2.I Wanna Be An Actor
3.Crash Landers
4.Yer Butt Makes Me Puke
5.Analingus
6.Mud
7.Love Is A Vapor
8.So Long, Elliot
shawn setaro-electric guitar
john malone-drums
matt savage-vocals
daniel madri-acoustic guitar, vocals
now how about some reviews!
Godboy SILENT TREATMENT FROM A TALKING HORSE——This goofy Jersey band knows how to pitch the game. Keep it short,
catchy and weird. Vocalist Matt Savage makes Jad Fair sound like Caruso but it only enhances the insanity of what gives here. Upbeat
and nicely arranged with dynamic breaks, this band is damned kooky but I've got an idea they are crazy, yeah ,like foxes. With the
instant classics, YER BUTT MAKES ME PUKE and ANALINGUS. Released on the ultra cool, Orange Entropy label.This is fun. —
(Don Campau)
Godboy: SILENT TREATMENT FROM A TALKING HORSE 4-man band
from Boston, punk-o-zoid to th’ MAX! They’ve got a really
unique & attractive blend between th’ electric & acoustic
guitars! Ya’ gotta’ enJOY in-yer-face rawkin’ git-arz & a
blend o’ genuine attitude to have fun with this music.
You might not think that this kind of group would have
much to offer talent in th’ vocal arena, actually. 2,
3 & even 4 part harmonies, though th’ lyrics could use
a touch of that same sophistication i.e., Yer Butt Makes
Me Puke. Seems to be a real flavor of an ol’ movie in
th’ musical spirit (I’m thinkin’ Easy Rider th’ whole
way through). Despite th’ (often) flippant style, Godboy
has some real musical talent (they’d prob’ly get REALLY
pissed off if they heard ya’ say so, though). Biggest
criticizm izzat they only had 8 cuts on th’ CD. Woulda’
been nice to have (at least) 12 on there! Certainly
worth a RECOMMENDED!
Rotcod Zzaj, aka Dick Metcalf
Perpetrator & Instigator, Zzaj Productions
642 Dorchester Road
Rochester Hilla, MI 48307
http://users.tm.net/rotcod/
rotcod@tm.net
Yet another genius release from the wackiest band from Boston.
These guys wrap punk, folk, country, rock, and even some hard
rock all together, which gives birth to the weirdest music
ever. The lyrics are just as funny too. One can’t help but
to pay strict attention to the words to hear what comes
next. The only problem with this disc is that it is only
about sixteen minutes long. "Love Is Vapor" is my favorite
of the eight songs. You must experience Godboy.
-------Askew Reviews
Godboy -Silent Treatment From a Talking Horse - Orange
Entropy Records - Real weird rock, in the truest sense
of the word. Better than those two corndog rockers
Tenacious D. These guys at least know how to write
songs and never come close to making me sick to
my stomach like the D. Give it a go. -du Slash And Burn
Talent is a peculiar commodity. On the one hand,
it's precious; witness the dearth of it on any radio
station of any genre. On the other, it's often spent
in ways that ensure that no one ever finds out about
it. Godboy is good. This Boston quartet dwarfs most
big-name alternative or punk bands of the last ten
years. Its members have a cohesive and well-honed
lyrical sensibility, serious instrumental and vocal
chops, and an admirable commitment to originality.
(In three years, they've amassed 150 self-penned
songs.) They're funny. They're also so filthy and
twisted that, in their present form, they're destined
for ephemerality. In twenty years, are you going to put
"Yer Butt Makes Me Puke" on the stereo and tell
your nine-year-old that his mom and dad dated
to this music? The whole lineage from which godboy
springs is traceable back to the art-rock bands of the
mid-sixties, acts like the Mothers of Invention, Captain
Beefheart, the Fugs, the Bonzo Dog Band, the Velvet
Underground, and early Little Feat. At the time, the
scatalogical element and the disjointed music were
employed in the service of busting up the calcified
cutlural standards that didn't allow for expression
outside certain parameters. Here in the late nineties,
when anything goes and has for a long time, how much
more busting up do we want to do? Why would this
music be fun for more than a few minutes?
On purely compostional and performance-based
grounds, Silent Treatment is indeed a great record.
"I Wanna Be An Actor" has several well-defined
sections, each with its own tempo. The tightly packed
background vocals show that much care was put into
fashioning the seeming chaos heard here.
Shawn Setaro's countrified electric guitar hook
on the aforementioned "Yer Butt" works perfectly
with Matt Savage's extended-syllable vocal phrasing.
The lyrics' interweaving of tropical, anatomical, and
pharmaceutical images with reflections on regret is
masterfully done.
"So Long Eliot" crams images ranging from donuts to
a wheelchair to a "witchdoctor . . . return[ing] to Zurich
[and] publish[ing] his novel under your name." It also
includes the cryptic line "meat adorns the widow's tit
oh no dogs chase her from the old man's tent."
It gives one hope to know that musical acts this creative
are out there recording, performing and making money.
It would give one a great deal more hope to discover that
kind of creativity channeled into something ennobling
rather than something that momentarily tickles us.
-Barney Quick
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