Beef - Stink Stank Stunk!

Man oh man, is this CD the fucking tops. Great cover artwork, too (drugged-out Fred Flintstone-type leaning against a pole with a bottle of wine as Wilma hitches a ride to somewhere...). See, Beef have consistenly put out some of the best seven-inches around, quality wise, and I have spent many Maxells on compilations of them. One CD full of them is just plain convenient.

If I started talking about the songs, I would sound dorkier than I am in my gushing appreciation, so I will attempt to restrain myself.

The impact of the songs didn't get lost in transition. "Towncar" is still one of the best songs ever, "Sanford and Son" catchy punk that's a huge radio hit somewhere smarter in the universe, "Nicole Kidman" is still a song about DFFQI's favorite chemistry class coke-slut, "Food and Weed" encapsules the basic needs and principles of life perfectly, and "Mr Coffee" is still perfect.

Shell out the eight bucks now, you cheap bastard.

(Hoex Records, 47 W Harrison, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866)

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Michael Keegan
2.2.2000

Dairy Farmers For Quebec's Independence