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22 December 2023
Fishbone's It’s a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have a Good Time)
You know, for a mythological dude, Jesus is pretty cool. I mean, not only does he come back from the dead every Spring, but he is born anew every single Winter, like clockwork! Gentiles call it “Christmas”. CEOs call it “ka-ching!” I call it "time to dust off the ol’ Christmas tunes": a little Dean Martin; a little Nat King Cole; one Bing Crosby song-- two, if you throw in his homoerotic ode to small boys with drumsticks with David Bowie; and Fishbone.
Yes, I said Fishbone. Talk about “nostalgia”, It’s a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have a Good Time) came out 16 years ago! Sixteen! We’re talking vinyl and cassette tapes, kids.
It’s a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have a Good Time) is a four-song EP that has music’s most underrated, under-appreciated ensemble rollicking through original holiday-themed compositions. The opening, title track is a spastic, bull-in-a-china-cabinet romp through unfortunate souls’ trials and tribulations, with Dr. Madd Vibe and his cohorts prescribing the very music they make as the remedy. This song’s so much goddamn fun, you want to play it over and over again. Second song, “Slick Nick, You Devil You”, recalls a run-in with a thieving, drinking, derelict Santa, with nothing more than a soft organ and some sweet, slow gospel handclaps to back it up. Track three is a thick, easy-going reggae tune called “Iration”, which, despite beautiful lines like, “And their faces are twisted with the pain of living,..” it’s actually kinda uplifting. And, of course, track four is a dirty funk song sung by Dirty Walt as the one and only Ebeneezer Scrooge.
Trust me: you don’t know the meaning of “fun during the Holidays” until you hear this record. Though the EP proper is supposedly out of print, you can find three tracks on CD as part of the two-disc, 1996 release, Nuttasaurusmeg: Fossil Feulin’ The Fonkay.
Happy Holidays, mis amigos.
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You know, for a mythological dude, Jesus is pretty cool. I mean, not only does he come back from the dead every Spring, but he is born anew every single Winter, like clockwork! Gentiles call it “Christmas”. CEOs call it “ka-ching!” I call it "time to dust off the ol’ Christmas tunes": a little Dean Martin; a little Nat King Cole; one Bing Crosby song-- two, if you throw in his homoerotic ode to small boys with drumsticks with David Bowie; and Fishbone.
Yes, I said Fishbone. Talk about “nostalgia”, It’s a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have a Good Time) came out 16 years ago! Sixteen! We’re talking vinyl and cassette tapes, kids.
It’s a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have a Good Time) is a four-song EP that has music’s most underrated, under-appreciated ensemble rollicking through original holiday-themed compositions. The opening, title track is a spastic, bull-in-a-china-cabinet romp through unfortunate souls’ trials and tribulations, with Dr. Madd Vibe and his cohorts prescribing the very music they make as the remedy. This song’s so much goddamn fun, you want to play it over and over again. Second song, “Slick Nick, You Devil You”, recalls a run-in with a thieving, drinking, derelict Santa, with nothing more than a soft organ and some sweet, slow gospel handclaps to back it up. Track three is a thick, easy-going reggae tune called “Iration”, which, despite beautiful lines like, “And their faces are twisted with the pain of living,..” it’s actually kinda uplifting. And, of course, track four is a dirty funk song sung by Dirty Walt as the one and only Ebeneezer Scrooge.
Trust me: you don’t know the meaning of “fun during the Holidays” until you hear this record. Though the EP proper is supposedly out of print, you can find three tracks on CD as part of the two-disc, 1996 release, Nuttasaurusmeg: Fossil Feulin’ The Fonkay.
Happy Holidays, mis amigos.
PURCHASE THIS OR SIMILAR ITEMS
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issue
vol 6 - issue 04 (dec 2003)
section
entertainmental