Week 34: Los Abandoned
We’ve been moving all week, so I haven’t had much time for caring about anything else, so this post will be half-assed about a band that half of me doesn’t care about, but the other half finds halfway charming in a half assed way.
I generally haven’t liked any of the Southern California pop punk stuff, although occasionally there is a catchy song that comes out of it that makes me smile, but that is less and less the case these days.
But Los Abandoned, although they get lumped in with that crowd, seem to be a little different. Although their song Van Nuys es Very Nice is a perfect example of a better than average pop punk tune, I was attracted to it because I have a hard time not liking lyrics like "The upper-lower middle class that you can only find here has gente con muchos acentos viven en apartamentos" just 'cause they are half in English and half in Spanish. I was expecting more of the same kind of punky stuff from their other songs, but surprisingly they are all over the place, which might be why labels keep dropping them. And maybe they are a little too all over the place, but i prefer that to having all the songs sound the same. On the other hand few of their other songs use the seamless mix of Spanish and English that they have in Van Nuys; most are in either one or the other language and this is dissapointing. If they would sing more in Spanglish and play less punky, i would care a lot more about them, as it is I'm just a bit curious to hear what they do next.
In the NAPcast you’ll get to hear other songs, but for now, here’s the video for Van Nuys es Very Nice.
Their album titles are also cute - 'Demo Tape', 'Self Titled EP', 'Office Xmas Party', and 'Mix Tape'.
I generally haven’t liked any of the Southern California pop punk stuff, although occasionally there is a catchy song that comes out of it that makes me smile, but that is less and less the case these days.
But Los Abandoned, although they get lumped in with that crowd, seem to be a little different. Although their song Van Nuys es Very Nice is a perfect example of a better than average pop punk tune, I was attracted to it because I have a hard time not liking lyrics like "The upper-lower middle class that you can only find here has gente con muchos acentos viven en apartamentos" just 'cause they are half in English and half in Spanish. I was expecting more of the same kind of punky stuff from their other songs, but surprisingly they are all over the place, which might be why labels keep dropping them. And maybe they are a little too all over the place, but i prefer that to having all the songs sound the same. On the other hand few of their other songs use the seamless mix of Spanish and English that they have in Van Nuys; most are in either one or the other language and this is dissapointing. If they would sing more in Spanglish and play less punky, i would care a lot more about them, as it is I'm just a bit curious to hear what they do next.
In the NAPcast you’ll get to hear other songs, but for now, here’s the video for Van Nuys es Very Nice.
Their album titles are also cute - 'Demo Tape', 'Self Titled EP', 'Office Xmas Party', and 'Mix Tape'.
Labels: Thursdays
3 Comments:
moving we HATE moving. !AY!
california and punk and spanish makes me think of chicanochrist. "come caca" is a personal fave.
do you know anything about Tommy Guerrero, by chance? i just missed him last Friday at Union Pool...
Bluebird, i remember Tommy Guerrero from his skating days, i had no idea he was now playing music, though its not surprising. I'll have to check out some of this stuff.
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