Get The Girl

Here's the deal with this band: Roachito and Shortstick decided to toss back a few cold ones at one of our favorite watering holes. Normally when bands play at bars, Youngmanridge policy strictly states that we leave ASAP. It's usually too damn loud to have a good conversation and talk about whatever it is we need to talk about. For some reason, we decided to stick around on this particular night. While we were lamenting the idea that no one is visiting this lovely website of ours, "Get the Girl" was gearing up for the last part of their set.

Most of the time, local bands playing in local bars just usually don't do it for us. When "Get the Girl" started playing, Roachito and I looked at each other and we were sort of like "Hey, this doesn't sound half bad". More or less we decided to do a little write up on them for our first indie music review on the site.

After all this rather slow build-up of the plot, I am sure you are asking yourself "So how do they sound?". Guess what? I'm a gonna tell you right now, so hold yer horses. The first thing I think anyone will notice about this band when they listen to them is that they have an 80's retro kind of sound and it works pretty good. To add to the retro sound, especially on the CD that they kindly gave us, the lead singer Carol sounds similar to Terry Nunn of "Berlin" fame. Aside from the retro sound (I've used that term way too much now and I promise, it is the last time you'll read it in this review), they have a pretty cool crunch thing going with the guitars making it a tad bit heavier than what would be expected. The rest of the band sounded pretty good and proficient on their instruments and actually sounded better live than they did on the CD they were handing out. I don't want to make it seem like the CD they handed out sucks, because it sounds good as well, but in my humble opinion, if a band sounds better live than they do on their recorded shit, they get some extra props.

Before I get going on to far with this, I'm gonna give you the bottom line on this band: While I wouldn't listen to them everyday, I think they have a cool sound. I know this isn't saying much, but their sound is better than most of the shit on the alt-rock radio stations these days. At the very least, I can recommend to readers (all 2 or 3 of you) to go to their website and give them a listen.

Visit the "Get the Girl" Website

Shortstick
12/15/03