THE MAINLINERS
Bring on the Sweetlife (Get Hip)
Reviewed by Erick Mertz

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When I first got this CD in the mail, I had to turn away from the image the cover presented. I did so aghast, the way I would swerve sickeningly from an animal freshly pummeled in the middle of a country road. Initial repulsion, while arguably an unprofessional and lamentable part of this task, is all but an unavoidable one. I mean, I will be honest: serve up a gap toothed, pasty white boy with shellfish and greens and I'll turn away. Plain and simple. I'll even extend that prejudice to tan boys and svelte Hispanic ladies: you drape your body in crustacean, and I'll turn away.

Then play like the Mainliners do on Bring on the Sweetlife and I'll turn it off.

© 2005 - Erick Mertz