Wednesday, May 05, 2004
April 28: Sweet 75 - (self-titled)
I'm not even sure what to say about this train wreck; I got it for $1 from one of BMG's regular clearance sales, and I think I paid too much.
Sweet 75 was Krist Novoselic's first post-Nirvana project. It came out about the same time as Foo Fighters' second album, the summer of '97, though apparently it was recorded sometime in 1995. See, here's the story: in what I can only hope was a decision fuelled by grief, Novoselic sees this street singer named Yva Las Vegas perform Venezuelan folk songs at his birthday party less than a month after Cobain kills himself. So what does Krist do? He decides to form a band with her. Now, keep in mind, Yva Las Vegas has a poor, annoying singing voice and looks like a Venezuelan version of Roseanne, only with worse teeth.
Calling this album terrible is being too kind to it. To make matters worse, the four best (read: halfway-decent) songs on the album were written by Las Vegas alone; the other, crappier songs were written by Novoselic and Las Vegas! Novoselic calls in every favor he can: Pete Buck from REM plays some Mandolin, the drummer from Ministry plays, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass lay down some horns. And it doesn't help one lick.
And to think, Novoselic turned down the chance to be bass player in the Foo Fighters to make this muddled, God-awful piece of dog crap. At least he didn't need the money. You can see why I haven't bothered to purchase Novoselic's second post-Nirvana project, Eyes Adrift.
Sweet 75 was Krist Novoselic's first post-Nirvana project. It came out about the same time as Foo Fighters' second album, the summer of '97, though apparently it was recorded sometime in 1995. See, here's the story: in what I can only hope was a decision fuelled by grief, Novoselic sees this street singer named Yva Las Vegas perform Venezuelan folk songs at his birthday party less than a month after Cobain kills himself. So what does Krist do? He decides to form a band with her. Now, keep in mind, Yva Las Vegas has a poor, annoying singing voice and looks like a Venezuelan version of Roseanne, only with worse teeth.
Calling this album terrible is being too kind to it. To make matters worse, the four best (read: halfway-decent) songs on the album were written by Las Vegas alone; the other, crappier songs were written by Novoselic and Las Vegas! Novoselic calls in every favor he can: Pete Buck from REM plays some Mandolin, the drummer from Ministry plays, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass lay down some horns. And it doesn't help one lick.
And to think, Novoselic turned down the chance to be bass player in the Foo Fighters to make this muddled, God-awful piece of dog crap. At least he didn't need the money. You can see why I haven't bothered to purchase Novoselic's second post-Nirvana project, Eyes Adrift.
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