CASPER AND THE COOKIES - OH!

Casper and the Cookies have an album out called Oh!, and I don\'t know who it was made for. It\'s one of those crap bands that only form in college towns, playing Sixties folk in a Grateful Dead sort of way. It\'s like if the Dead Milkmen or the Violent Femmes made a completely unfunny album. Casper and the Cookies are winking at you, saying, \"I\'m so clever without ever making you crack a smile.\"
Oh! is filled with the kind of lyrics that only a hippie could enjoy, but I actually think that hippies have too much taste to fall for this crap. There are lyrical gems like, \"I got ants in my pants / And it makes me want to dance,\" and, \"A goat is in the rain forest / And a leopard\'s eating cake / Thought he was a penguin / But he was a snake.\" (From \"Take It Away, Kathy\" and \"Sneaky Snake\", respectively.) This is the kind of band that makes you leave a club.
Please don\'t get me started on the cover art for this piece of crap. To those good bands that I have chastised in the past for having bad artwork, I only did so because the music inside was worth hearing and I didn\'t want anyone to not pick up the discs because the covers were bad. In the case of Casper and the Cookies, the crappy artwork is a fair representation of what you\'re getting music-wise, as well.
So, Casper, I won\'t tell you that you shouldn\'t get four-year-olds to do your album covers, because anyone who buys this tripe shit after seeing this horrible cover deserves the music inside it.