Reel Big Fish — We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy

We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy

Mojo /Zomba

Steve English (CHARTattack)

04/05/2005 8:33am

Reel Big Fish’s smarty-pants ska-core — think Bowling For Soup with a horn section — was some mighty hot shit back in ‘97, but eight years and two middling albums later, they’re lukewarm at best. The band’s fifth outing sounds like it’s been in cold storage for the better part of a decade — carbon-frozen rave-ups and cheeseball ‘80s covers whiz by in a blur. Self-deprecation creeps in on "One Hit Wonderful," a smirky post-ironic jibe at the record industry’s criminally short attention span. Take heart, boys; the rate at which trends get recycled these days, ska-punk should be hip again by Friday.

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