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ROB MCCOLLEY
A Boy Named Laurie Sings Insults to a Girlfriend
(Legal Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day
This runs the risk of being too cute. It's apparently a concept album - the
title's pretty self-explanatory - of happy little pop songs full of epithets
hurled at an ex-girl friend. Like I said, it's almost too cute, but the
songs here stand alone as good pop songs, despite the context of the
frame. There's plenty of wistful-sounding bits in here, with references to
hoping to educating the ex-girlfriend in the errors of her ways, with lines
like "Do you feel shame/you should feel ashamed" and references to the
singer's ability in bed. Perhaps the strongest song on this album is the
last song, though, "Insults," where the chorus is a repeated "Fuck
you/snaggle tooth/saggy boobs/Fuck you!" I mean, you can always pretend the
other person is completely at fault, and, even so, you still have great
understanding and compassion for them, despite them having wronged you, but
really, if you're going to go through the trouble to write a whole album
about their faults, you really don't like them anymore, do you?
[Pick this up at www.parasol.com.]
© 2004 - Holly Day
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