Reel Big Fish - Walking On Sunshine

 

1. Who are Reel Big Fish? 

Reel Big Fish are a ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California. They started making music in 1991 and have 9 albums to their name and are most famous for their AHA cover. Ice Nine Kills are a heavy metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, that join them on this one off single for an American Psycho comic book soundtrack; Walking On Sunshine (July, 2024).

2. What does Walking On Sunshine sound like? 

Walking On Sunshine sounds like the excrement of a cheap-beer-drinking, street-food-eating, American backpacker after two weeks in Thailand, that has been spread like jam on hot toast. It is vile excrement, an abortion, finger-nails-running-down-a-blackboard unbearable. Not just a car crash but a multi-car pile up with significant casualties and young children involved. If this was an attempt to evoke genuine disgust, shock and horror then it succeeded in spades. Walking On Sunshine is the sound of a stranger vomiting everything out and they are down to dry heaves and bile. There is no justification for this shit stain on humanity existing, it is a cacophony of noise, discordant, incongruous and jarring. This should have been aborted at the stage of conception, late term or with coat wire hangers in an alley; it just has no good reason to exist. Jesus wept on the cross because he knew one day Reel Big Fish would play Walking On Sunshine. It's not very good, listen to Beer instead.

3. Which bands do Reel Big Fish sound like? 

Less Than Jake, No Doubt. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Save Ferris. 

4. Which bands influenced Reel Big Fish? 

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Operation Ivy, The Specials, and Madness. 

5. What have the cut and paste merchants said about Walking On Sunshine? 

"A spectacularly fun cover" - Kerrang! 

"The perfect ballance of both genres over lapping and coming to the front when needed" - Is This Music? 

"Genre blending cover" - MXDWN.

"I used to think baby you loved me,

Now baby I'm sure"

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - MisterWives

MisterWive’s Best I Can Do sounds a bit like the ska band Save Ferris’s cover of Come On Eileen. Pretty damn good in other words. Brass pulls us into a verse where the singer coos over soft guitar pop and then the chorus where she gives it the tits accompanied by fantastic trumpets. Lovely jubbly.

Best I Can Do is a light, bubbly, sunny-day song about the pain caused by trying to live up to others expectations. Regardless of the melancholy lyric it’s a song to get your arse bouncing and, fuck me Frank, undeniably one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“I am down on my knees
Begging for release...”

 

 

MisterWives are a New York indie band making sweet indie pop since 2012. Best I Can Do is the fifth single released from the band’s debut album Our Own House(Feb’15). Fifth time right I suppose.

Shit you need to know:

Best I Can Do was called the album’s most, “…chaotically appealing,” song.

Billboard were on something when they described the album Our Own House as having, “…panels bursting with rock 'em, sock 'em action.”

This reviewer said the album was, “...a collection of rousing anthems that have showy vocal hooks, crisp production and choruses packed with youthful enthusiasm.”

The long player Our Own House was produced by Frequency, best known for his work with Eminem.

The band have been often compared to Ellie Goulding and Taylor Swift. Others have mentioned Chic and Capital Cities.

Popped Music thought, “...their sound borrows heavily from the 80s pop era but it’s injected with a syringe full of optimism.”

The band’s influences include No Doubt, ABBA, The Smiths, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, The Police, Walk the Moon, Regina Spektor, Sublime, Radiohead and Of Monsters and Men.

Misterwives topped the chart on Billboards emerging artists and were MTV's Artist To Watch for 2015.

The band do a good cover of old eighties singer Cyndi Lauper’sbiggest hit Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

The singer studied international opera.

 

 

 

Let’s crack on with some Sublime seeing as they influenced MisterWives. This is one of the legendary Californian ska bands greatest hits Caress Me Down (1996).

“Mucho gusto, me llamo Bradley,

I'm hornier than Ron Jeremy”