This guy goes past anything Beck has done..... first of all it is a little more easier to listen to. Beck is angry about something in a lot of his songs but I don't have time to figure out what it is exactly. I want to like him..... but i don't play his stuff very often.
Ruben's music is different. I am curious to what he is singing about and I will replay his music over again becuase it is enjoyable. The videos are odd but then again, this is an odd performer.
The guitar parts are surprisingly musical. There is a fluidity to his song narrative. Which is becoming stylisticaly rare in pop music lately. Usually out of frustration the band will throw in some cranky guitar stomping in the middle of the song because it seems to lack creative direction on where it can go.... remember he song, "Hes Kissing Christian" by THAT DOG.... that sort of thing.. just CRUNCH, BANG. BOOM. etc.
This stuff doesn't do that. Ruben seems to have creative control over all of his work too which is refreshing to see. In one hand its like allowing the inmates to run the asylum. On the other hand it is nice to see it happen. The end has a musical XTC feel to it... think Andy Partridge.
Spookey is on TVT Records.
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Ted Cantu Fascube, Fashion Culture Beauty Network 2006
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Friday, December 15, 2006
SPOOKEY RUBEN - WHAT I NEED IS A WHOLE LOT MORE !!!!
" what you want -- what you get !!!....... what i want is a whole lot more"
This is off the album, "Modes of Transportation" Note that he is transposed over the face of John Travolta in the Boy in the PLastic Bubble. I found this life saving gem at the right time while I was living in Chicago. I had just broken up from a bizarre love thing with an infamous songstress and this CD sort of saved my sanity. Artistically speaking.
This is off the album, "Modes of Transportation" Note that he is transposed over the face of John Travolta in the Boy in the PLastic Bubble. I found this life saving gem at the right time while I was living in Chicago. I had just broken up from a bizarre love thing with an infamous songstress and this CD sort of saved my sanity. Artistically speaking.
Needless to say I was also glad to be out of the Detroit radio market so I welcomed any kind of new sounds that didn't reflect Stone Temple Pilots. My method of madness back then was to walk into a record store, in this case, Reckless Records in Chicago and just buy music based on the album art, (while disregarding the price tag). This is not a very cost effective or scientific way to choose music but in my case it paid off.
Spookey, (who got his name from wearing scary heavy metal t shirts) is well versed in pop music. He sounds like XTC meets a tornado meets a perfect storm. Incredible effort. This soon became the soundtrack for a very turbnulent time in my adult years.
If I had to do it all over again. Id scrap the relationship and get straight to the music. I adored this stuff. In this time period I was finding the levels that went well beyond Beck and commercial radio. Wendy Mc Donald is an amazing tune.
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