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Medieval Death LP and free DVD + Mordicus “Rights ‘n Trials” LP. Official videos, audio, info.
JUDGE NOTHING: I’m a big Girl Now
Alterna- Metal from the States on Revolver Recs
1. enchanted fools
2. junkpile
3. memphis
4. aug mouth
5. we’ll know
6. out of my way
7. juggle
8. no need to swear
9. 7 to think
10. wake
11. before you
12. jack
13. breakfast burgoo
14. ulcer
15. myself & me
1990’s pop punk group from Alton, Illinois. The band enjoyed a successful run throughout the mid ’90s signing with Chicago-based indie label Thick Records in 1995. They released two albums with Thick Records, “I’m a Big Girl Now” and “Riveter” in 1995 and 1996 respectively. This was sandwiched between constant touring in a “hot smelly van with pink shag carpet” at nearly every sticky-floored club and dive in the country. Judge Nothing’s brand of pop songs wrapped in a punk package attracted a loyal following in the St. Louis area and beyond and earned them the title of “the badfinger of punk.”
SAMPLES: https://music.youtube.com/watch?playlist=OLAK5uy_kYLL9nVJyjf_0Q7gdsTLr7yd76GyQY2rw
A fine debut from one of Chicago’s more melody conscious ’90s emo/indie rock bands, I’m a Big Girl Now shows the group subtlety but enthusiastically injecting a wide variety of influences.
The disc’s first track, “”Enchanted Fools,”” at first appears to be a standard Hüsker Dü/early Nirvana-style punk tune, but reveals a chorus melody more typical of ’80s commercial power pop à la Rick Springfield. On other tunes, huge stud-metal riffs lurch and grind beneath twang-laden vocals that recall bands like the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Reckoning-era R.E.M., and Illinois brethren Uncle Tupelo. The lyrics on I’m a Big Girl Now are a bit more heady than the usual “”boy loves girl but can’t understand her”” stuff, often employing poetry-like wordplay in a folk singer/songwriter mold. Never straying too far from the mission, however, Judge Nothing knows how to play it dumb, fast, and hard with aplomb, as the one-minute, nine-second, straight-up HC burner “”Out of My Way”” attests. Though there’s a lack of immediately memorable songs here, there are tons of small pleasures in the form of short melodic and rhythmic hooks that coyly duck in and out. Consequently, I’m a Big Girl Now richly rewards repeated listening.
Medieval Death LP and free DVD + Mordicus “Rights ‘n Trials” LP. Official videos, audio, info.
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