Joey Shithead Keithley - Band of Rebels

  by Daniel Cressey

published: 9 / 7 / 2007

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As part of D.O.A. Joe Keithley has produced album after album of enjoyably straight up, aggressive punk. Sadly this latest release fails to match up to the standards set by Keithley’s history. Suffering from the deadliest of diseases – side-project-itis – 'Band of Rebels' lacks the driving power of D.O.A. releases and does not bring enough extra to the table to make up for it. At moments it comes to life – with ‘Wake Me Up For The Revolution’ Keithley has crafted an understated pop song without compromising his punk ethic. These moments are rare though. More frequent are tracks, like ‘---- the Corporation’ and ‘Record Company Ripoff’, where a pseudo-funk rants, strangely out of place saxophone solos and self-aggrandising lyrics combine to little effect. This reaches its logical conclusion at track 13 with a cover of ‘Born to be Wild’. You could view this as a valiant subversion of a song of mass-market rebellion by a true rebel. Actually it is just a bad cover of a bad song. It may be expecting too much to expect subtlety from a man who adopts the middle name ‘S**thead’ but Keithley has shown he can do far, far better than this in the past.

Track Listing:-

1 Rebel Kind
2 Bust Me Loose
3 When Power Came To Canada
4 People Power
5 Wake Me Up For The Revolution
6 Take What You Can Out Of Life
7 Armageddon Time
8 Fuck The Corporation
9 Dangerman
10 Record Company Ripoff
11 Troublemaker
12 Men For All Ages
13 Born To Be Wild
14 Goodnight Irene
15 The Music Scientist

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