{"id":514,"date":"2006-06-12T02:29:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T07:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/?p=514"},"modified":"2013-12-20T19:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:16:32","slug":"the-nutley-brass-fiend-club-lounge-misfits-meet-the-nutley-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/music\/2006\/06\/the-nutley-brass-fiend-club-lounge-misfits-meet-the-nutley-brass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nutley Brass: Fiend Club Lounge – Misfits Meet the Nutley Brass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nutley Brass: Fiend Club Lounge – Misfits Meet the Nutley Brass
\nLabel: Rykodisc
\nRelease Date: 6\/28\/05
\nReview Date: 5\/12\/06<\/p>\n

The Nutley Brass are back again with another highly enjoyable album of time-warped covers. This time they tackle the Misfits instead of the Ramones. In case you are unfamiliar with the concept, imagine orchestrated versions of your favorite Misfits songs, kind of like muzak, but more up tempo with a slight jazz feeling a la Esquivel. I can\u2019t pinpoint the genre name for this, but back in the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s they used to release a lot of this style of music for so-called hipsters, like easy listening jazz for the Leave it to Beaver crowd. In fact, record companies used to make albums of popular music and try to pass it off as the original artists on the unsuspecting public. So instead of Lou Reed singing Walk on the Wild Side, you\u2019d get an easy listening instrumental when you spun it on the stereo console Hi-fi. The Nutley Brass is actually one guy arranging and performing it Sam Elwitt. The name comes from applying a New jersey town to Herb Albert\u2019s Tijuana Brass. I\u2019m getting off track here.<\/p>\n

The Fiend Club Lounge is another solid record. Let\u2019s face it, 99% of tribute albums suck. If you are a Misfits fan you can not help but enjoy this recording. Put it on for a hardcore Misfits fan and watch the reaction as the songs start to creep into consciousness and you get the inevitable “What the hell?” followed by a grin. The arrangements on Fiend Club Lounge seem to be a bit more lush than those found in the Ramones songbook. The better tracks are the ones that tend toward Esquivel-esque (say “Esquivel-esque” five times fast) inclusions of the oddness like “Teenagers from Mars”. Also, the cover art by monster movie poster artist Basil Gogos is truly excellent. Almost othe best part of the CD!.<\/p>\n

There are only a couple of shortcomings with Fiend Club lounge, one being it\u2019s relative shortness, at only 23 minutes of music. The other is that occasionally there are some instruments that sound a little keyboard-y. But otherwise, it\u2019s well worth it. Let\u2019s face it, today\u2019s Misfits should not be called The Misfits. When a band you love isn\u2019t making new music, it\u2019s hard to breathe life into a catalog once you\u2019ve played it a million times on your stereo. The Nutley Brass is a great way to enjoy the Misfits. In short, if you are a Misfits fan and don\u2019t like this, then you are a dick.<\/p>\n

Online Action: www.nutleybrass.com<\/a>
\nOnline Action: www.rykodisc.com<\/a>
\nOnline Action: www.misfits.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nutley Brass: Fiend Club Lounge – Misfits Meet the Nutley Brass Label: Rykodisc Release Date: 6\/28\/05 Review Date: 5\/12\/06 The Nutley Brass are back again with another highly enjoyable album of time-warped covers. This time they tackle the Misfits instead of the Ramones. In case you are unfamiliar with the concept, imagine orchestrated versions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[206430,303],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-misfits","tag-nutley-brass"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2006\/06\/misfits-nutley-brass.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}