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Music Review:
Goldfinger - Open Your Eyes
Artist: Goldfinger
Album: Open Your Eyes (2002)
Label: Mojo/Jive
Genre: Punk/Ska/Alternative
Release Date: May 7, 2002 |
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Oh how long we have waited. After
what seems like forever, Goldfinger has released their newest
album to the streets, entitled Open Your Eyes, and it
brings the Ska/Punk band back to the day's of Hang Ups.
The discs opening two shots "Going Home"
and "Spokesman" are a good inclusion into the discs seemingly non-stop
Ska explosion that engulfs the listener. The real winner is the CDs
title song, "Open Your Eyes" which states:
"Open your eyes / To the millions of lies
/ That they tell you everyday / Open your mind / To the clever disguise
/ That the advertisements say / How do they know / What's good for you?"
The song fits in with the entire albums portrayal that everyone is their
own person. In "Spokesman" the band talks about wanting to hear what you
have to say, not what we are told to believe by representatives and
people paid to say things.
The rest of the CD flows great and when
you get to "Woodchuck" this Disturbed meets a kindergarten class
explosion is one of the funniest moments in music in my opinion. The
band rocks out to the old tongue twister and nails it dead on, I would
like to see practice recordings of that song, it could prove to be
hilarious.
"The only major problem with
this CD is actually finding it..."
For fans there was a song on an old Maxi
single entitled "Ted Nugent" which poked some serious fun at the old
rock singer. The song returns on Open Your Eyes with good old Ted
getting torn up, but instead of our favorite Charlie's Angel getting the
second blow, Jennifer Lopez gets taken to town when punished about her
dress, and packing on the pounds. It proves for great hilarity.
Topping out the rest of the CD is two
bonus tracks. One is a recording of several prank phone calls the band
recorded and performed, not quite Jerky Boys quality, but close, and the
last is a standard Goldfinger track.
Besides "Open Your Eyes" my favorite song
would have to be "Radio," which seems to just jump out at you off of the
record.
The only major problem with this CD is
actually finding it, it took a number of stores and phone calls to find
a Best Buy in the greater Phoenix area that actually carried the CD in
stock, most were sold out, or had never received any. If you can find
one, definitely worth picking up.
- Erich Becker loves his
radio, it never lets him down.
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