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Ever wonder what it would be like if The Turtles hadn't been subsumed, only to be appropriated by Frank Zappa for his own warped purposes? Ever felt guilty about humming along with The Association? Were you a closet Bangles fan? Is 'Automatic for the People' your favorite REM album? If so, then the Pernice Brothers are right up your alley. But don't worry if you are a "serious" student of pop. Yep, you've been into Big Star for years. You loved the Roy Wood version of ELO. You wonder why Crowded House weren't bigger in the US. You are the expert that all of your friends call on when they hum a line and say, "What song was that in? And, by the way, who was the drummer of the band?" You have a place at the table as well. Of course, if you are either of the above, then you probably already are well acquainted with Joe Pernice and his merry band of pranksters. From his original band, The Scud Mountain Boys, to his solo stuff, he's always been the go-to guy when you want something just a tad out of step with the familiar. It's for all of the "other" people who secretly love it when they hear 'Hello It's Me' that this review is addressed to. If you like warm, lush, late-60s/early-70s-sounding pop (Some have used The Left Banke as a reference, but you can throw Todd Rundgren, The Tremeloes, The Raspberries, and Tommy James and the Shondells into the mix as well.), then this is the album for you. As befitting this cynical age, there are the requisite bittersweet lyrics and ironic musical turns. In one case, 'Let That Show', Pernice references Teenage Fanclub referencing Big Star with a soupcon of ELO massed strings. In another case, 'Our Time Has Passed', he shamelessly rips off the Bangles' 'Eternal Flame' in the intro, but the chorus has a bit of that Turtles vocal sound that we all know and love. Almost every element of flowery psychedelia pops up at one point or another, from Glen Campbell-like guitar lines that pop up like so many grape hyacinths, or the harpsichord-sounding 12-string line in the bridge of 'She Brightened Everything', or the slowly building 'Shaken Baby', with its dreamlike chorus, "on and on and on and on..." And yet, there is a modern chunky underpinning that gives the music a weight deserving of these ponderous times. I don't want to reveal all of the keys to the kingdom (I don't think that Pernice even realized that he was channeling Jo Dee Messina at one point.). But if you want to hear how somebody can go just in one song from Jules Shears/Bangles, to The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing', to the 'Just One Look' commercial from years back, to 'That Thing You Do' from the movie of the same name, and then finish with a repeated verse "keep Loving Me To Death" (which I'm not sure should be taken literally or not), then you'll just have to seek out a copy of the Pernice Brothers' latest album 'The World Won't End'. Hey "other" people - it's time to come out of the closet. Don't be afraid of the light...
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/pernice-brothers/the-world-won-t-end/1015/
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