A lot can be forgiven if a song has a little pep, a little get-up-and-go. “Ate it Twice” feels like an old skiffle number, it’s ragged acoustic guitar riff and the pounding drums that could have been approximated with an upturned bucket and a cardboard box. So what if it lacks a true chorus or [...]
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Andy Playboy
A friend of mine had a band at one time. If he was singing “Andy Playboy” instead of Robert Pollard, I’d swear he wrote this song. Alas, he didn’t and Pollard did. If my friend wrote the song, I could ask him who Andy Playboy really is, and he’d probably give me some jazz about [...]
You Satisfy Me
“You Satisfy Me” sounds at first blush like a love song from a happy Robert Pollard. Leaving aside the whole argument about artists and pain and creativity and the affect happiness might be having on his recent output, you certainly can’t begrudge the guy his happiness or his willingness to so overtly express it in [...]
Brown Submarine
Anyone looking for Robert Pollard’s tribute to “Yellow Submarine” will be disappointed. Instead, as the title track of the Boston Spaceship’s debut disc, he offers a dour, acoustic dirge. It’s a short song with a descending acoustic guitar figure over which Pollard sings about taking his love down in a brown submarine. Still, as simple [...]