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The Skidmarks | Come And Get It!
Put on that wide collar shirt and those cool shades.
CD, Munich
Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar
Publicatiedatum: 28 juni 2002
This Amsterdam quintet won the Best Live Act award at last year's Grote Prijs van Nederland, the most important band competition in the Netherlands. Not entirely surprising, since The Skidmarks make garage punk, a genre in which the live show is everything. Records are supposed to represent the live show, not the other way around like in most other genres. Capturing the essence of going completely berserk in black suits, wide collar shirts, and cool shades with the sounds of a vintage organ and time-tested guitar riffs on CD or - preferably - vinyl, however, is not an easy task. There's a fine line between raw, to-the-point, and energetic and muddy, simplistic, and too fucked up to play.
With its nice mix of hard grooving, sometimes almost Oblivians-like shouters (Read My Rights, Everybody's Shakin' It) and more melodic material in the Nederbeat tradition with the obligatory snotty vocals (Leave Me Alone, 5 Minute Walk), Come And Get It! stays interesting throughout. All songs are really that: songs, not one idea stretched to the two-and-a-half-minute mark with a title slapped on it. All in all, a good album that makes you want to put on your wide collar shirt and cool shades and see The Skidmarks live.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/the-skidmarks/come-and-get-it/1647/
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