Twister Mums, Dads, and Ladyboys

Format: CD.
Label: Damaged Goods.
Label reference #: damgood 181cd.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M7008
Approximate release date: February 6, 2001.
Genres: British Bands

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Track listing:

1. "Shootin'"
2. "Holiday"
3. "Tell Me Something"
4. "Growin'"
5. "It's A Dog's Life"
6. "Brown Paper Bag"
7. "Teenage Pregnancy"
8. "Don't Wanna Change"
9. "This Flat Just Isn't Big Enough For The Both Of Us"
10. "Man At The Station"
11. "Brother"
12. "Tennants Super Way"
13. "One In A Million"

Twee Kitten review of Mums, Dads, and Ladyboys
by Keith McLachlan

I was never much for britpop. I was a Blur fan sure but I always thought that in spite of their then less than provocative disdain for all things American they sounded less English than all of the other chump bands of the time. I never got into 'Different Class' or Supergrass cause the music was never really very good, and I hated all of their interviews and the fake cool Brittania. At the time I was certainly a huge anglophile but somehow I had sense enough to avoid Menswear and besides Britpop probably had reached its nadir with 'Your Arsenal' released two years before anyhow.
   Twister probably would have fit right in with those sham britpop bands that concocted the whole britpop myth but somehow I don't despise them. Perhaps it is because of the perceived credibility of Damaged Goods in my own head but the music here sounds more legitimately characterizable as britpop the sort label types like to classify as circa Small Faces/T-Rex than anything Tiny Monroe ever did. It is snarling vocals done politely and jangly/shardlike guitars and look at the title--it along with the faux trashy cover shot make this record a bit dirtier than anything NME would have sold to you in 1995.
   Thirteen mostly fast songs about urban domestica and bored restlessness. Anthemic almost, not really a punch to the gut, more like an indian rub burn given to a person wearing gortex undergarments. Oh and they are quite ugly too which is always a bonus as all the bands apparently worth anything these days seem to be on the familiar side of hideous.



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