!!! - Take Ectasy With Me

My parents, teachers, favorite cartoons, and even Nancy Regan all warned me about the dangers of drugs. If you take drugs, you can never grow up to be a Doctor/Fireman/Astronaut/Ballerina/Model/President of the United States. I want to grow up to be somebody important, and drug users only end up in jail or dead. Shame on !!! for telling me any different. !!! are the bad kids on the playground that I’d been warned about. And they were led down the wrong path by The Magnetic Fields, because it’s their song anyway. Alas, peer pressure is a powerful thing, and I just can’t resist a funky ass beat. Maybe Ecstasy is good for something other than making me like house music and glow sticks. Plus, I mean, what is really the harm in just trying something once? Really, “Get Up” is the stronger of these two tracks. It begins with a solid three minutes of the funkiest Nate-Dogg-played-by-white-hipsters I’ve heard in a long, long while. The lyrics alone portray more swagger than I can after 3 cans of Sparks and a half-pint of whiskey gulped from a flask. From there, we head into the psych-out rock that makes me realize just how crazy colored swirling lights and mind altering substances can be. By the time I’ve been let down, I’m asleep on Seventh Avenue thanking my lucky stars that somehow my wallet is still in my pocket. It’s a crazy time…and being a Doctor or Ballerina is overrated anyway, no matter what you’ve been told. [www.brainwashed.com]