The Bugs –“B.U.G.S”
The Bugs are fronted by on again / off again Queers (guitarist/backup vocalist) Dangerous Dave. It is obvious from the first to the last note that The Bugs are heavily influenced by the old Queers sound. Amidst the scabrous lyrics (such as the mock-homophobic “Lesbo!, Lesbo!“, which parodies the entire lesbian lifestyle in the least politically correct way. The fast and loud punk rock attitude, there are actually some intriguing ideas and catchy melodies played at maximum velocity filled with sneering vocals with more snot then a crying 5 year old. This EP contains no shortage of goofball humor with the constant teenage, gay and drug humor in songs like (“Never Went Gay”(which are the only lyrics in the 42 second song), “Back On The Weed”, and/or “Email From A She-Male”), The Bugs are still more genuinely entertaining that others that try to pull this snotball punk rock shit off. The Bugs may not have put out the most well-played or perfectly polished produced album this year, but for all the gloriously un-politically correct fun, it’s difficult for a band to stay as true to their roots without selling out to the new order of politically correct, anti-attitude, love song driven pop punk then they do. My only problems with this release is that the 11 songs on disc fly by faster than a car battery charged vibrator and that when I loaded the CD onto my computer and instead of the title of the band showing as "The Bugs" it shows as “B.U.G.S.” with the title of the CD showing as "The Bugs" (this only annoys me because Christian from The Tattle Tales mocked me for referring to it this way, otherwise I would care less). Never since the introduction of the Meatmen, has a band sounded so bad, while sounding so addictively good.
