A couple things you should know about Thunderbirds Are Now! Their name rocks! The abbreviation of their name (TAN!) is second only in rockitude to Nine Inch Nails’ (NIN)! And TAN! Are Detroit natives! My favorite kind of native!
I’ve probably missed TAN! playing in the hole-in-the-wall club in my very own backyard a couple times by now but I will not miss them the next time around!
TAN! brings a Detroit perspective to the whole post-punk-dance-rock thing that is going on right now! TAN! rocks harder then those pansy-assed Killers! TAN! doesn’t suck and copy the Killers like the Bravery! TAN! doesn’t sound rip off Joy Division like Interpol! TAN! aren’t gay looking pretty boys like Hot Hot Heat! If I had to compare TAN! to someone else I would say that they are the American equivalent of Bloc Party but without the silly accents! I’ll quit with the vague, over extended, uninformed comparisons and exclamation points and move on!
I’d had higher hopes for this post. And I’m hoping that my lackluster writing won’t turn you off of TAN! because I can’t speak highly enough of their new album Just a Mustache. But, it’s one of those days and I’m sort of distracted because it’s snowing. It’s fucking snowing and my brain just refuses to work as it recoils in shock and horror of the impending cold, gray oppression of another Midwest winter that will, at the very least, last for the next five months. Fuck that.
Buy It: Online here
Web Site: Here (listen to the whole album here)
Sample: From Thunderbirds Are Now!’s Just A Mustache “Better Safe Than Safari†and “Bodies Adjustâ€
I've seen TAN! on a couple occasions. They're not that good. And they're annoying. Go see The Darkness instead.
[1] Your taste in music is suspect. Go write another fake sports story. Or make another list of things that make you poop.
Done and done. PS The snow has melted.
[3] So it has. But it will be back. It's a sure thing. Like the sun rising or the Browns and Lions having losing seasons. Sure thing.