FEEDERZ
Teachers in Space (Broken Rekids)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This album just has so many things going for it! Unlike the Feederz first album, which was pretty straight-out punk rock, this album is loaded with blues scales, flamenco guitar, classical music interludes, and riffs lifted directly from "The Sound of Music." There's even a musical interpretation of a Lewis Carroll poem (here called, "Lobster Quadrille," but I don't remember if the poem even had a title when it was printed in Alice in Wonderland).The wonderfully honest antisocial attitude of The Feederz is still here - beginning with the cover photo of the Challenger spacecraft exploding (hence the album title) to the songs about riot, rape, pillage, and vandalism and even possibly ending with the music itself, as its repeated deviations from the punk rock form no doubt alienated a lot of hard-core 80's audiences. There's supposed to be some cool video footage of the Feederz legendary Gilman Street show, where Frank Discussion performed with a dead cat and dog wrapped around his shoulders and live crickets glued to his head, but since my computer is too damned hosed up with junk to play videos on it, I won't get to see that until I can get another computer.

© 2002 - Holly Day