Search - Bop :: Bread & Circuses

Great Band, CD, Bad Timing

Boston Bluesman | Boston, MA USA | 10/21/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Bop Harvey was a great ska band. This album was their debut album and like many bands their debuts tend to be their best material. This is certainly the case with Bop. The lyrics may be a little dated with several references to the Regan era (Poor Judeg Bork), but the music is great and the songs still have meaning in today's world. While basically a ska band, Bop has always leaned a little more torwards an island\World Beat sound. If you were lucky enough to see them rock the house at the Ocean Mist, where the floors would literally shake, you know what a great band these guys were. Unfortunately their timing was a little off being between the 1st wave of ska that included many of the great british acts like English Beat and the second Ska revival that saw band like Save Ferris and Real Big Fish. If they were around at a diffrent time they would have been a much bigger act. If you love ska and looking for something a little different buy this album."