This is a relaxed effort, for the most part, colorfully strummed acoustic guitars and some crisp, starry-eyed psychedelia here and there. Too many of my favorite artists, like Belle and Sebastian and South, drown in the wide oceans of the American music industry. With any luck, the Pin-Up Girls' "Taste Test: Expanded Menu" on Know-It-All Records label () won't end up as the best album of 2004 that nobody heard. Production could be better on one or two numbers however, the lo-fi treatment captures the songs well. Despite the indie tag, the songs are accessible to a wide audience.
Music is original, not conforming to contemporary mainstream tastes. Posted by The Pin Up Girls 11:13 PM 26 comments There's info about them at and hopefully your roommate won't put the CD in seclusion. Ha! Of course, I'm paying the price now because "Taste Test: Expanded Menu" has me addicted. To think that me roommate hid this from me so he can enjoy it by himself without letting anybody borrow it. The music is pleasant enough, moving fast like a rabbit hopping through the backwoods. Is there a term yet for this fetish? The Ups must be smoking some pretty toxic stuff to write twisted, sick lyrics like that yet it's all poppy and your parents can drink tea to it without getting too disturbed. Back to extraterrestrial probes then: "Spacegrrl Superb" is about being abducted and played with by aliens.
Two chicks and one lad, Mondo Castro, trade off on the vocals, sometimes harmonizing to hypnotic effect (theĪforementioned "Pictures"). A string section is not what I normally hear on indie releases, and I thought the entire album was going to be similarly in the chamber-pop vein. "Caress" is a deathbed ballad, creepy and sexy at the same time. Singing is charming throughout, and styles vary. The riffs sparkle and take on dreamy notes as on "Pictures." A Google search explained that the Ups are from the Philippines, and that explains why I can't place the accents, which is refreshing. The Pin-Up Girls are all about guitar twang (not the country kind) and sorta shoegazer shimmer. Yeah, you're right - that's not your problem. The cover of the album itself, seductive girl of Asian origin, is an attention-getter, my guess is that she is modeled after one of the band's female singers, one Jeng Tan whose sweet-as-wine vocals on "Lullabye" makes me want to get married again even though I'm not divorced yet. Quite appropriate since the group is called the Pin-Up Girls although there's nothing nasty on this CD unless, of course, you're offended by extraterrestrial probes.
I reckon all of us have peculiar abilities, and his talent for concealing his top discoveries is admirable yet completely obnoxious.Īnd so it is I found this unknown disc under a pile of girlie mags. He has this uncanny knack for hiding the best records from me. In an age when far more graphic material is the norm, 1000 Pin-Up Girls celebrates an era of pin-up and pulp style to fuel your erotic imagination.I think I need to smack me roommate. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition celebrates this eye-catching candy with every single cover from Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter, Eyeful, Flirt, and Whisper, from 1942 to 1955, as well as interior spreads, featuring, among others, a budding Bettie Page. Harrison lured his readers in with vibrantly painted covers by top pin-up artists Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss and, most famously, Peter Driben. While other magazines delivered the girl next door, Harrison’s publications banked on bad girls in satin and leather, fishnet stockings, and six-inch heels performing slapstick stunts straight from the burlesque stage. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so fetishistic no one noticed they were never nude. “Girls, Gags & Giggles,” ran publisher Robert Harrison’s recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male.
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