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Candy Coated Fury
351 Montreal Ave, Staten Island, NY 10506
9876543210, 1234567890
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351 Montreal Ave, Staten Island, NY 10506
9876543210, 1234567890
Expample@gmail.com 12345@gmail.com
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everybody’s doin the fish…still!,
So I’m going to go ahead and admit right here, this is probably not a great first introduction to the fish but if your used to and enjoy a happy sounding album, with crude lyrics- this is something that most fish fans area already well familiar with- I’m sure you will enjoy Candy Coated Fury.
Even as a 30 yr old woman in a wonderful marriage with a normal boring office job, I really enjoy heading out to the fish shows and singing loud to some song that drops more f-bombs in 2 minutes than I drop in a year outside of their shows, with people in the crowd randomly pointing at strangers & the band they love and yelling f-you and making friends with the same people moments later. My iPod is full of these type of RBF songs and when someone has annoyed me at work, I enjoy it just as much on the way home. There is something wonderfully cathartic about doing something so ridiculous, with musical style that emphasizes just how ridiculous it is. If that sounds horrible to you, then you might not be ready for the fish army.
This album embraces being a big ol dork. If you want to be mistaken for someone cool or mature when someone hears your music, you might pass on this too. I personally will continue to embrace all the nerd factor that comes with the fish. 😉
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|One of their best albums,
In my opinion, this album is their greatest since their 1998 release Why Do They Rock So Hard. Compared to more pop-based radio-friendly releases like Cheer Up and Monkeys For Nothing, this album rather than moving away from the band’s roots (like many other bands do) actually moves much closer to their roots.
This album captures the classic 90’s ska sound of Why Do They Rock So Hard with some of the aggressiveness in their overall sound that made We’re Not Happy a great album while still having catchy hooks and an overall lightness about it, despite being a hardcore album.
The lyrics are more important in this album. In some of their previous albums, the lyrics were fillers simply to accompany the sound, but in this album, they are more meaningful. They are still talking about failed relationships and hating on those who had done them wrong. And in every song, Reel Big Fish seems to accurately describe real life situations that we relate to and deal with on a daily basis. This album is a bit misanthropic, but it never seemed as jealous and hateful as the lyrics in We’re Not Happy, nor are they sarcastically passive aggressive as in Cheer Up. Rather, the mood is perfectly appropriate.
Many people may question why Reel Big Fish actually stepped backward in time with this album, abandoning the soft pop-punk sound while other 90’s bands in this century are doing the opposite. But fans will enjoy this sound that is both nostalgic and familiar, yet worlds apart from anything that they have done.
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|What should’ve came out after turn the radio off,
This is the reel big fish that I remember. If you like turn the radio off, you will like this album. It has that summer of ska sound to it with some minor hints of “why do they rock so hard?”
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