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MP3 Spooky Pie - Poisonberry
14 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Punk, POP: New Wave
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LA Weekly
This is the second release by one of the finer bands on the L.A. circuit, and like a feast of 40 years of California rock, Spooky Pie serves up distinctively flavored slices of Golden State genres, heavily spiced with an eerie gothic sensibility. There''s early-''60 surf ("Phantom Surfer"), late-''60s melodic folk-rock with harmonious male/female vocals ("Thunder" and Octavia"), ''70s - ''90s punk (Poisonberry") and ''''80s new wave ("Pretty Weird Thing"). They also perform three covers that actually alter the originals rather than just restate them: a metallic, psychedelic version of the Beatles'' "Hey Bulldog," a thrashy rendition of Wilson Pickett''s "In the Midnight Hour" and a Shindig teenbeat frugfest of the T-Bones'' "No Matter What Shape," which you oldsters may remember as the catchy Alka-Seltzer theme song from the mid-''60s.
Most of the tunes are the creation of lead guitarist Willy Banta, whose fretwork has a Dick-Dale-snarl-meets-Lou-Reed-loose feel. He shares vocals with the sensuous keyboardist Phyllis Teen. While the influences are varied, the platter has the creepy feel of trashy, moonlit red-velvet Hollywood nightlife. Memorable stuff - this Pie is in our face. (Michael Simmons)
Bitch Magazine (Feminist Response to Pop Culture)
Their Beggars Banquet-meets-Devil''s Brunch cover photo may look creepy, but slap on this disc and you''ll find that Spooky Pie is much more Addams Family than Anton LaVey. The influences and shape-shifting of this L.A. garage-goth five-piece is meticulous - vocalists Willy Banta and Phyllis Teen morph Wilson Pickett''s exuberant "In the Midnight Hour" into a veritable Hannibal Lecter of creepy suggestion, turn around for the gentle Byrdsian lullaby of "Thunder" (sample lyric: "You will never die/But I sometimes lie/So hey, hey, hey"), and then plunge into droning surfy psychedelia on "Words." Spooky Pie''s is a goofy shtick, filled with scary love, stairways to hell, knife-wielding trailer-park girls (and the fact that drummer Robbie Rist played Cousin Oliver on The Brady Bunch sends the novelty-o-meter into the red zone). But Poisonberry throws a Halloween party that''s as yummy as a bowl of circus peanuts.
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