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Forget About The Girl

ISS

Forget About The Girl

Web Of Mimicry
CD $12.00

05/07/2002 678033301120 

WOM 011CD 


MP3 $9.90

05/07/2002  

 


***The debut album from ISS, Forget About the Girl, is an absolute breakthrough in the sadly decomposing genre of the "novelty" record. A self described "Time Warping Boy Band", ISS is shamelessly derivative, and very, VERY convincing. Now before you start to puke, stop to consider the fact that ISS have managed to re-inject the genre of the nefarious "Boy Band" with the magic and marvel it once knew with the Beach Boys and the Four Freshmen—this is definately NOT an exaggeration. Don't be expecting another half-assed imitation of Pet Sounds by some smug, irony-obsessed art-farts—ISS is the REAL DEAL!  
 
Tim Smolens (Estradasphere) is the main songwriter and producer behind ISS. His obsessive study of the harmonic elements of Brian Wilson compositions (and, shamefully, New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys) meet up with his increasing skill in the studio environment to bear absolutely remarkable fruit. The psychedelic madness at the core of this "band" ends up drowned in such rich, full-bodied, fully-orchestral clarity & perfectly sung 5-part harmony that casual listeners would never suspect the psychotic subtext. The strict and crass realism in the rendering department only heightens the jarring transitions from 1968 to 1986 to 2002. To be sure, the historical persistence of the Boy Band and it's attendant cache of gooey love songs is given a ethnomusicologically exact tribute in ISS. But it's more than that. "Forget About The Girl" is an inspired and sincere labor of love. 
 

Tracklist

  1. #1 Remember What We Had

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  2. #2 Mari

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  3. #3 Bad Doggy

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  4. #4 Small Ones

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  5. #5 Procrastination

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  6. #6 Forget About The Girl

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  7. #7 Sarah's Song

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  8. #8 The Dull Teeth Of Jealousy

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  9. #9 Look At Those Girls

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  10. #10 Weak Link

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  11. #11 I'm A Fool For You

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  12. #12 Only In My Dreams

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  13. #13 Amazing Stories

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  14. #14 I'm Growing Old

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  15. #15 Lonely Without You

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