So it's about an hour after my last post for music week, and instead of going to bed and sleeping like a normal person, I've been sitting here reading Hyperbole and a Half, which is a wonderful blog written by Allie Brosh. I have read literally every single entry, and they're all some kind of funny. Anyways, I bet you are wondering what today's wonderful band will be...
Justin Beiber! Just kidding, I wouldn't do that to you. I also wouldn't do that to me...writing an entire entry about him would probably literally kill me. I would die of sheer stupid-happy-loveydovey-crap-syndrome, which I'm sure is a common ailment of his fans.
Anyway, the real band is Sick Puppies.
Sick Puppies started out in Australia in the year 1997--weird, this band is as old as my sister. But that's not really relevant. Also I apparently can't spell at this time of night. The band currently consists of Shimon Moore (would someone please tell me how to pronounce "Shimon?" does it rhyme with "Timon" or "Simon?" PLEASE I HAVE TO KNOW!) on lead vocals and guitar, Emma Anzai on bass and backing vocals, and Mark Goodwin on drums.
The band produced some stuff in Australia before uprooting and moving to the US. There was one EP, called Dog's Breakfast. I'm not sure what year that was in, or what label it was on. But their next attempt was a full-blown album produced in 2001 by Sony BMG. But apparently, the CD itself is a rare find, so if you've got one, please give it to me. Please?
The band then moved to the US, where they produced the album Dressed Up as Life on the Virgin label in 2007. Their second studio album in the US was Tri-Polar, released in 2009 on Virgin again. Then there's Polar Opposite, produced in 2011 on Virgin. That one is just an EP--actually just a combination of some of their other stuff all mashed up into one album; like a "Best Of" only shorter and stuff.
The band was also featured in the film Rock Prophecies, which was basically just about Robert Knight. He's a musical photographer of sorts, and he was looking for new talent, which he obviously found in Sick Puppies.
And let me tell you, they are good. I've seen them, and I would definitely see them again. I love how they can be screamy and rocky and angry, then go to something like White Balloons that is basically the opposite of those things. And they have some sick videos too. You know their hit song from Tri-Polar, You're Going Down? I laughed at the video, and I was supposed to. It's this totally hardass, beat-up-everyone song...and then the video? It's some kids having an epic waterfight. Then the video for Welcome to My World really hit you in a different part of your brain, because it's just...touching. It is by no means a happy video, but by the time it ends, you feel like you've gained a lot.
Sick Puppies is also often associated with the Free Hugs Campaign. The campaign started in Australia when Juan Mann returned from an overseas trip and realized that he had nothing and nowhere to go. So he did what any reasonable person would do, and made a cardboard sign that read "Free Hugs." And then it just took off. Until the police ordered Mann to stop, saying that it was a public health hazard or some other such nonsense. Sick Puppies used their song It's All the Same in a video supporting Mann, and voila! After Mann collected a few thousand signatures, he was back in the unpaid, hugging business.
Anyway, I think that's all I have on Sick Puppies. I will probably post again in the "morning" about another band, because I just realized that there are two more bands I want in this edition of Music Week and one of them needs a whole day all to itself, because that is going to be one long post. I've been saving it for last.
So keep tuning in to find out what I think is worthy of getting in the first-ever Razza Ragazza Music Week!
--Razza Ragazza
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