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Lipstick Pickups/Bikini Bumps
Female front-line garage-offense of the Lipstick Pickups verses the Bikini Bumps darker vision of rock-n-roll in epic combat on one piece of vinyl! This vinyl is now out of print, but the Lipstick Pickups songs along with a bonus track ended up on the Six Steps to a Better you CD!
TRACK LISTING
::REVIEWS:: For someone who hates So Cal, I
spend a whole lot of time listening to records from there. Anyway,
the Lipstick Pickups have enough charm and sass to keep me bopping,
coming off as like a teenage version of the Bobbyteen: far spunkier,
very smarmy and semi-sweet. Impressive. As far as I’m concerned,
this is a one-sided single, because I will never listen to the lame-ass
Bikini Bumps ever again. Worth it for the Lipstick Pickups. Carve
up the Bikini Bumps side. Split 7 inch (that’s a split
itself between the G.C. and Erectords labels) featuring talent taken
from the Anaheim gene pool. Bikini Bumps give up some solid garage
rock, not earthshattering but a decent listen. LP gets the party
started though, with 3 cool bursts of fun fem-voxed garage tuneage.
The Lipstick Pickups play three
songs of snotty female-fronted punk. The Bikini Bumps play similar
snotty garage punk with male vocals. They’re a little better
musically, but not as annoyingly fun as the Lipstick Pickups. Still,
these are both good bands that will get your toes tappin’. Lipstick Pickups start off on side
one and you feel the snot shooting out from the noses of their dual
female vocal attack. The music is a garage-soaked rock'n'roll fun
time. I flip the platter of vinyl to listen to the Bikini Bumps.
They play a raw, early '80s OC surf style of punk that is snotty
and edgy. The stripped down recording does them justice. Two unknowns
(at least to me) put out a great sample of their music, which is
worthy of your hard earned dollars. The Lipstick Pickups play great
poppy rock and roll (with a clear Bobbyteens/Nikki & the Corvetes
influence!), with cool girl vocals. The Bikini Bumps play good old-fashioned
poppy rock and roll. If striped t-shirts, tight pants, and skinny
ties are yer thing, you know what I mean, you'll eat this up! If
this were a cereal, it'd be Fruit Loops! Punk! Lipstick Pickups: Dual female vocals.
One’s really good. The other one’s a screech –
like a squirrel in a wood chipper. Imagine if super early Go Go’s
were Japanese, huffed glue, and sounded like they were trying to
get a command of the English language, but were really from Anaheim.
Or if you beat up Shonen Knife really bad and stuck microphones
in the wounds. They pull off a sort of inspired retardedness that’s
actually harder than it looks because the Lipstick Pickups don’t
fail to rock through all three tracks. Bikini Bumps: Ever listen
to a band that you’re thiiiiis close to really liking, but
it sounds like their music’s driving around with the parking
brake on? The better track of the two, “Bikini Bumps + Talent
= Violence” has a cool, meandering guitar over nicely gritted
up vocals, and a steady beat. It’s really close, but I would
either step on the gas or twist the swagger knob a bit further to
the right. Look forward to hearing more from both bands. BIKINI BUMPS play sassy garage punk-with
the emphasis on the punk. Their well done use of melodies makes
me sorta think that if this was 1980 they could paly with the EYES
and the RANDOMS at the Masque and everyone would be stoked to see
them. They seem like the sort of band that could get the party hopping.
The LIPSTICK PICKUPS, though, are the winner of this split-much
the same music stylings-but the extra chutzpah helps. I don't know
if it's the dominating snotty female vox or maybe it's just in the
production. Whatever it is-it rules, OK?
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