Search - Lunch Money :: Silly Reflection

Sowing the seeds for tomorrows indie rockers

BetsyR | San Diego, CA | 06/04/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I haven't seen them live (yet), but each track conjurs up images of throngs of children reciting hand motions, and parents who can't help but join in. The energy isn't from over-stimulating sugar coated Barney-pop, but rather the raw delivery that supplies a platform for honest poetic lyricism (hence the Indie-rock allusion). The lyrics cut straigh to the things that really matter: cabooses, bugs, tricycles, and dogs (or the lack thereof).



This music kneels down to address children at eye-level, but somehow manages not to stoop.



Please keep the Lunch Money albums coming!"

Like The Ramones For Kids

Carl Lombardi | NC | 01/26/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Lunch Money may be pop, but they are the antithesis of pap. Their songs do not talk down to kids; instead they talk intelligently to kids about things that are important to kids, eyeball to eyeball. And while the energy in some of their songs (like Roller Coaster) resembles kid-punk, other songs are more bluesy (like Caboose) or introspective (like Nightlights). The best song on this album, perhaps on any album by any artist in any genre in recent memory, is Umbrella. Pick your favorite singer-songwriters -- Bob Dylan, Lennon/McCartney, Paul Simon, Carole King, etc. -- none has written a better song. (By the way, their second album, Dizzy, is just as good.)"