BOY HITS CAR
Self Titled (Wind Up)
Reviewed by Jason Thornberry

see also BOY SETS FIRE: After the Eulogy review

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I guess I should simply begin at the most obvious point of entry: with these two signings to Wind Up Records, who sound quite similar if you close your eyes and have such impractical names, you would think the label people would occasionally put the BSF compact discs into the BHC cases, accidentally switch 8x10s bios in press kits, and book puzzling coffee house tour mishaps, etc.

I’m certain it must have happened at least once.

I put both of these albums on last night as I went to bed, and could tell them apart only by the most minute details. In the dark. BSF are a bit more All-American jock-ish, where BHC seem like at least one member owns something by Shudder To Think. They probably don’t actually like one another--what with people constantly confusing them...

Hey! Aren’t you in Boy Eats Jockstrap? No? Ummm--Boy Gets Knotted Rope Pulled From His Anus?

They’d both tell you that they had the name first anyway. The other band is simply biting their style.

If it even matters any longer, Boy Hits Car is more of a s-e-n-s-i-t-i-v-e endeavor, while Boy Sets Fire are no doubt prone to wearing flip-flops in public, t-shirts by Billa-schlong, and greeting their three clueless fans with high-fives.

Boy This Sucked!

© 2001 - Jason Thornberry