Superdrag
Head Trip In Every Key
(Elektra)
If you're a bottom-feeding, apartment-dwelling zine contributor (c'est moi), here's what you get accustomed to reviewing: bands like Superdrag, who amazingly, combine the worst elements of Pulp, Matthew Sweet, and Weezer into one monolithic entity. Yes, on Head Trip I was able to discern the hallmarks of bona-fide horseshit: (i.e. over-calculatedness, lack of spontaneity, demographically-aware songs, etc, etc…)  Superdrag even makes fun of the disease-ridden music they've helped to perpetuate. For instance, on one song, the band's John Davis sings "And your alternative station/Is such a bankrupt vibration." Ahh…such audacious hypocrisy brings to mind a wise old Flipper lyric from the 1981 album Album: it goes something like this-"Ever play the fool/And find out you're worse?" Ahh…ageless wisdom from the band named after TV's dorsal-finned star. Now that's one to grow on…
Mike Cade