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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones/More Noise and Other Disturbances/1992/skacore/Boston, MA

I was originally going to do a single and en EP, but since this album has the single song on it, and because i feel like its a better representation of early Bosstones, I have chosen this album.

The Bosstones are a hardcore punk and metal infused ska band. They take influences from metal and punk. They have on another album a cover of "Think Again" by Minor Threat, with horns, and one of my all time favorite songs, a cover of "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith(please check this out). They take influence from both sides, which makes them a fun and absurd band to listen to at this stage.

The lead vocalist, DIckey Barret sounds, I think, like he's been smoking since age 12. Which is cool, it gives him character and he is honestly one of the most interesting vocalists to listen to, in my opinion. That sets to tone for a band that really does secrete class. They wear suits at concerts and have a hype man. That's it, they also do throw one heck of a show.

So you have a lot of poppier ska songs on this album, but it gets very hard at times. The song "Where'd You Go" is slower tempo, catchy ska. It was also included in the Clueless soundtrack. The very next song begins with the lead vocalist screaming for 3 seconds straight. There's both dynamics at work here.

The song "Bad In Plaid" exemplifies this in one song. At first it is a pretty upbeat, song with nice horns(this album does have a very nice horn section) about how he's a plaid man, don't mess with him or his jacket, but then later on in a frenzy of vocal outburst says 96 words in 20 seconds:

"The plaid means more than the color of our clothes
It means everyone is welcome to the Mighty Mighty shows
Feel free to represent on the Bosstones' stage*
We don't care about your race, color or about your age
You just gotta wanna want it and ya gotta wanna move it
It's a plaid plaid world and we're trying to prove it everywhere we go
As long as you're united with the plaid boys from Boston then you're all invited
Everywhere you go let's all get united with the plaid boys from Boston
And you're all invited!"

Another vocal/lyric highlight is another slower but fast frenzy of words. In the song "Guns in the Young", protesting youth violence, the vocalist says

"You see it on TV, you know it looks cool
All these actors going around killing thousands of people
In two or three minutes, it builds up in your head and you say
'yo I can do that'"