This record made me contemplate a very fundamental question which Spandex Tiger must face eventually. Can a band so based on there live performance ever be captured on a recording?
A Spandex Tiger show is a full fledged uber-sleaze cock-rock reality show. There stage setup includes a Casiotone, a real toilet and lead singer Rich Filthy is always dressed in the eponymous tiger print spandex pants. The whole show brings us back to 1989 in a very real way. The rest of the band plays other late 80’s characters including there guitarist, Tankkoray who dresses as a sort of wanna’ be gangster complete with wrap around shades and a bandana. The whole band is dedicated to a true love of old English 40’s.
When you leave a Spandex Tiger show your left wondering just what it is you saw. The whole concept may appear ironic, it may seem like a joke, but they play it so straight and they play there instruments so well. Worse half way through the show you find yourself no longer enjoying the show ironically from the outside you’ve become fully involved in the world of the band. You where actually “rocking out” to the funk filled neo butt rock. You where singing along to a song about hemorrhoids.
So I think I’ve expressed that live they brilliantly straddle the line between the truly stupid and the sublimely brilliant. I’m not sure if it’s possible to translate this feeling onto CD but I do know that this debut album did not achieve it. The album’s subject matter ranges from accidental tranny sex in
Of coarse this is there first album and in truth what there doing is juvenile potty humor in the best way. Still there must be some way to translate the true love affair this band has for its subject matter. I truly believe that they want to make the great late 80's’s funk-cock rock album that was never made in it’s own time. Maybe they should put there next record our on cassette tape.
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