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Elephantitis of the Bus

Chickin Seattle | Seattle, WA USA | 11/03/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Having never heard of Bending Bus, when I first saw the cover, I wasn't sure what to expect. The cover is bitchin', but how many bitchin' covers of [bad] cds have we seen??? Then I flipped it over and read the song titles and the prospect of this being something worthy of my attentions rose exponentially. Popped it in and listened to it, and god damn if I don't still catch myself whistling or humming that first track. I mean endlessly. I mean worse than Sesame Street's, "Twelve"...yeah, you know the one I mean...pin ball machine counting to twelve...hear it once and sing it for two weeks straight...uh huh. Yeah. Apparently this Solar character finds it amusing to make one obsess on spanky little ditties. And I do mean endlessly. Then I listened to the second track and holy christ...that bass is so fat and righteous. Love it. And the song, while I am not entirely sure what it is saying to me about black hearts or experimentation in bent physics, rocks.
So then you got Moksha, who in his formative years traded Star Wars figures FOR Smurfs...yeah, you read that right. He walked away with Smurfs and the hustler got the Star Wars figs. (I read the bio...) I don't hold that against him though because Walking The Ocean Floor induces swaying. Well, swaying with a little bouncy dance. Where the bouncy dance ended, the full on sway hit. Track four is all rich and smooth. All in all, definitely as bitchin' as the cover promises it is gonna be. I can't wait for what comes next..."