I’m glad they’re up there enjoying themselves. It looks like Aaron has his backing band and everything has his stamp of approval and everyone understands that’s the deal and everyone is happy and I’m happy for them.
But I’m bored with it. I’ve come to terms with the fact that this is their sound now, but for some reason I have like this little 1% chance of hope that they will release at least one song I really like. Party Down is a song I can get behind because it does have all those classic RBF flourishes and transitions between the different parts of the song. There were so many of these things in their earlier albums, but as time went on the songs just went straight from one part of the song to the other. It’s like when you first start fooling around with a girl and you’re excited to do everything all the time, then after awhile it’s just down to business because that other stuff is too much work and this other way is just as fun and much easier.
And then there’s my favorite song that they’ve released since Average Man and that’s Cannibal. That’s a great song and it wasn’t just an Aaron song.
At the end of the day RBF to me were the first three major label albums. Everything after that is FOE.
RxBandits are where it’s at now, but they are pretty much dead so… It’s a lot easier to find bands with cool horn sections now than it was in the ’90s, so I made this playlist of songs with badass horns
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