Banquets Drop Debut 7″

May 26th, 2010 by Oswald Hobbes / Comment on this post

Here’s a tip: if you want people to listen to your band, compare yourselves to Eddie Money. This is how Banquets got my attention.

Well, they actually got my attention first when I received an email alerting me to the release of their debut 7″, This Is Our Concern, Dude, and offering a download of the track “Elanor, I Need A Garden.” Right away, they were two-for-two – I love getting emails, and I also love The Big Lebowski references. So I decided to do some clicking on the links within the email to get more intel. I started with the label’s website – Black Numbers is offering This Is Our Concern, Dude for six bucks, and you can choose from 3 different colors. So now I’ve been emailed, I’ve noted the Lebowski reference, and I’m starting to get real excited because we’re talking about colored vinyl and that’s just plain fun. Plus, six bucks – not bad. I can probably get Third World Timmy to order me one without promising him a handjob. As Ice Cube might say, today was a good day. (And it’s only 7am!)

So now I already kind of like this band – I can tell they’re cool dudes, because they like the same stuff that I do. So then I’m about to listen to the song and I see this description on BN‘s page: “Four songs for fans of Hot Rod Circuit, The Get Up Kids, and Eddie Money.” Well, as a matter of fact, I always sort of liked the Get Up Kids, never got into Hot Rod Circuit, and absolutely fucking LOVE Eddie Money. That’s when I wanted these guys to take me home, tonight, and that was before I even listened to the track. I’m not Bob Lefsetz over here – I like being worked a little bit, and these guys were working me with the skill and intensity of [place semi-offensive prostitute joke here].

So then I listened to the track, and it’s pretty good. I’m not gonna lie to you, you’ve heard this kind of stuff before. Banquets are not breaking any new ground. But it’s catchy, and everybody seems to know what they’re doing (even the singer, which is a nice change-up from a lot of the stuff we listen to here), so I’m cool with it. I’m gonna pre-order one of these suckers, and I suggest you do, as well. You can choose from red, white, and blue vinyl, and here’s a tracklist, now that you mention it:

This Is Our Concern, Dude:
1. Lyndon B. Magic Johnson
2. Elanor, I Need A Garden (listen to this right now)
3. What A Bunch Of Aaron Burrs
4. I Wish I Was A Little More Lou Diamond Phillips

This Is Our Concern, Dude drops June 22. Act fast before these super-limited 7″s go the way of the mighty buffalo!