Physical Fatness samples the punk-pop label Fat Wreck Chords' stable of artists at a budget price, affording consumers the opportunity to discover new acts. Artists include NOFX, Screeching Weasel, No Use for a Name, the Dickies, 88 Fingers Louie, the Swingin' Utters, Snuff, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and Lagwagon, among many others. ~ Steve ...
After releasing countless singles (with an ever-changing lineup), Me First and the Gimme Gimmes continue with a flood of covers done the in the usual Fat Wreck Chords fashion. Contemporary hits such as "Rocket Man," "Mandy," and "Uptown Girl" are sung along with galloping pop-punk harmonies and verse-chorus-verse structures. Not the most ...
Though it doesn't sound like a brilliant idea, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, an all-star cover band dedicated to regurgitating punk rock-style the most frothy music in their parents' record collections, are actually extraordinarily entertaining and can make the likes of John Denver and Barry Manilow sound not so bad. The lineup includes Fat Mike of ...
Two years after punkifying some of the '60s' more popular songs for Blow in the Wind, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes return with Take a Break, their stab at some of R&B's classier, yet almost forgettable, tunes. The So-Cal five-piece is as rowdy as ever and their own punk rock polish is undeniably infectious. What made Blow in the Wind so great is ...
America's greatest cover band keeps finding new worlds to conquer, and on their fifth album Me First and the Gimme Gimmes present a unique ethnomusicological document -- a field recording of our heroes performing at an actual Bar Mitzvah celebration in Malibu, California (or a reasonable facsimile thereof). Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah features the ...
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes just can't get enough of other people's songs. The grabby bunch took their sledgehammer to pop and rock on their debut Have a Ball, show tunes got their come-uppance on Are a Drag, the '60s were sent reeling with Blow in the Wind, and R&B was smashed and grabbed on Take a Break. After that, the band took a break, at ...
A tribute mostly to the poppier, more bubblegum side of the '60s, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes' Blow in the Wind is a karaoke masterpiece, surprisingly the finest and punkest record they've released. The Gimme Gimmes' all-star punk rock cover band lineup, which includes members of NOFX, Lagwagon, and the Swingin' Utters, takes on mostly cheesy ...
Another "best of Fat Wreck Chords" sampler that shows off the what's hip and happening on this label, it's almost worth the purchase ($3) considering that about 90 percent of this is previously released. If you must have everything by Good Riddance, Avail and No Use for a Name -- all of whom have unreleased material here -- it's still worth the ...
Survival of the Fattest is one of the many periodic samplers put out by Fat Wreck Chords with the aim of enticing consumers to acquaint themselves with the label's roster by offering a great deal of music from as many of their artists as possible, at a very low price. As a listen, Survival of the Fattest is somewhat inconsistent, since not all of ...
The second in Epitaph's sampler series, this record was the first to come with the low price cap. While it's a great, inexpensive introduction to the label's heavyweights -- Bad Religion, Pennywise, NOFX, Rancid -- and has some classic punk vets that joined the Epitaph roster -- Descendents, T.S.O.L. -- it contains only one previously unreleased ...
Billed as a "lost album" in a liner-notes story that involves danger, intrigue, and a Malaysian Quonset hut, Have Another Ball! features tunes by Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Diana Ross, and other past pop stars as re-imagined by Fat Wreck Chords' Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Whether this album was truly meant to be the original version of ...
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