By that ninth song on the 10-track disc, you’ll have long ago put aside your intellectual pursuits or just turned the disc off, really. The opening “Poppa Music” is completely unapologetic, as eager to please as Martha and the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Streets:” “Hey pop music, what’s the word?/Well, yeah, we sound a little more mature/I’m sure we’ve grown up fine since the time we saw you last.” But don’t believe a word of it. These guys are completely immature.
“Vanilla Place,” the album’s likely single, implores listeners to “Walk down that Strawberry Avenue.” In a vocal interlude as part of “New Thang,” we learn that Dunlap is turned on by “foreign movies, girls on bikes, days off.” How’s this for a pick-up line? “I want to be with you while you roll/We can roll together baby.”
They’re kids in a candy store, cats in a field of nip, pigs in slop. They play music that thrives on audience participation (which may explain the applause that finishes many of the tracks), reaches out and embraces you, and maybe even grabs you in the ass (for New Englanders they sure ain’t Puritan).
Yeah, Miss Fairchild is downright naughty.
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