Album: Collateral Damage
Year: 1988
Style: Comedic Pop, Novelty, Folk, Electronic
Similar Bands: Weird Al, Frank De Lima & Na Kolohe
"One-Word" Review: Embarrassing eclectic joke-songs
Based Out Of: Washington DC
Label: Skyclad
- Attaboy 3:08
- Too Smart to Have Fun 2:56
- Closet Skeleton 4:02
- Hey Look Around You 2:37
- Campaign '88 3:06
- If I Were Your Prezident 3:15 /
- Galactic Funny Farm 4:11
- Space in the World 1:37
- Ancient One 4:45
- Mad Elaine 2:44
- Come & Unite Me Tonight 3:41
- Yuppie Drone II 3:27
- Tiki Goes Mad 1:14
Members & Other Bands:
- Jimmy (Patterson) Pheromone -Writing & Programming
- Alvis (Johnson) Pheromone - Writing & Performance
- Mary Von Klotz
- Melcor Shaazendis - Producer
- J.B. Daws - Engineer
- Hank Rand -Arrangements
- Alan Sonneman - Cover Art
- Elliott Landy - Back Photo
- New Age Graphics - Design & Graphics
- Letterforms - Typography
Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, but I like the pink & black color scheme, and the font of the album title gives a little of a punk/alternative vibe.
Album Review: This album is terrible. Very awkward and embarrassing style attempts with cringe-worthy lyrics and dated jests. The one stand out track "Too Smart to Have Fun" has a good melody, and is not a horrible song, and the Campaign-Prezident (ugh, the "z") suite has some interesting ideas and concepts about running & voting for a 3rd party candidate. Those two points gave the album an extra point on its rating. The synth / drum machine effects on Attaboy and Yuppie Drone are just horrendous Devo and rap style parodies respectively (although "Attaboy" has a solid They Might Be Giants worthy lyric "Here at the "department of redundancy" department). The worst Weird Al songs are leagues ahead of anything on this album. Makes a little more sense that they were on Dr. Demento.
Stand Out Track: Too Smart to Have Fun
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