Great Punmanship
David P. Rasmussen | St. Paul, MN United States | 01/25/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Autobody Experience is a band of obscenely talented musicians whose primary goal is to make you laugh like you did in junior high school. They play clever rock songs with brass. Song topics include spit valve springs, the history of astronomy and CPR mannequins. Autobody Experience has great punmanship.
Autobody Experience is regularly played on "The Current", a popular music public station in Minneapolis. Their tribute to Terry Gross of NPR was indeed played on NPR by Terry Gross. Past songs have been played by Michael Feldman and by Click and Clack. "Weird Al" likes them.
Autobody Experience, a band of 15 years, feels they are getting older, as you can judge by "Forgotten Lots", the title. Correspondingly, the music is more mid-tempo than for previous releases.
When "Forgotten Lots", the new CD by Autobody Experience was released, I made sure I was there, and adjusted a 1500 mile drive to accommodate the CD release show. Two hundred of Autobody Experience's closest friends also attended the show at the Minnesota History Center. As I hear them sing "Inside Out and Backwards", I ponder like I might have in junior high school. Is the brass section is playing the music backwards, just to be clever, just to make us think? I heartily recommend the CD, as one who was long ago converted."
Track Listings (14) - Disc #1