Nuclear Beef

Australian Comedy Punk (?) Audio Beef Today. The Drugs take themselves.. less than seriously.

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'J-Love (featuring Miss Pitch)', 'All My Friends' and 'Half Way'

All tracks by The Drugs from their 2004 album The Very Next Of The Drugs

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In case you didn't get the memo, I like funny stuff. This means I like about 30% of this insane Australian album I found on my hard drive. I don't know much about The Drugs, so their self-description as 'Australia's Favorite Crap Band' will have to suffice. Shakespeare it isn't, but it's certainly chuckle-worthy!

'J-Love' came up in the shuffle one day and I thought it was terrible. It is terrible.. terrible like a fox. It references J-Lo and Ben Affleck (aka BENNIFER) and so has already expired a mere year after it was written.

But how could I ever resist faux R&B with lines like :

More baby-faced than Baby-face,
Honey how can I go wrong?
Gonna take my clothes off...
All night long!

'All My Friends' is thankfully not fake R&B. More silly lyrics over pop-punk that you might hear playing in the background as a skater drinks Mountain Dew. In other words, catchy.. crap music.

I'm not sure that the gag matters, though.. this could easily become a rebellious teen anthem:

I used to dream about a time when I'd be old
We'd grow as friends and take our time as things were sold
Your youth is innocence, temptation is a scam...
And most of all my friends know exactly who I am!

Finally, 'Half Way' is a short skit which sums up The Drugs experience all too well. Cheers, mates. Crikey.

(If you haven't yet, you really need to check out the bizarre 'Trapped In The Closet' over at R. Kelly's site. Trust me.)