Games People Play

It's fun to review the Peechees, because I get to haul out my trusty trunk-full-o adjectives and use some of the better ones. I can chuck Games People Play on the disc player and think about words like "hook-laden" during "Lose the Motorcade (and live it up)" and "Hey Moscow Woman". I can use the word "uncompromising" while pogoing to "To Be Counted" (at least 'til dinner comes up on me). I can try to describe Christopher Appelgren's vocals without using the words "snot" or "snotty"...hmm, perhaps "mockingly post-pubescent"? I can wax rhapsodic about the fact that a less-than-thirty-second instrumental like "One For the Treble" kicks more heiner than many artists' five-minute songs (as does the longer, vocal-enhanced "Two for the Bass"). I can create complex descriptive similes in order to name-check a few seventies power-punk icons. I can try to come up with a word or phrase that really describes the importance and emotional impact of getting a good, hard, punching live drumkit sound the way the Peechees do. And I can say something trite about loving any disc with a song on it called "Return of the RocknRoll Nurse". And the best part is, once I've said all this stuff, the review's done and I can go back to listening to the disc. -George Zahora