BB Eye - Cops with Indigestion

 

  Quick question, What Do Nancy Sinatra, The Fall and BB Eye have in common?

  Answer, they've all recorded great versions of a song written by Lee Hazelwood called The City Never Sleeps At Night. Not that you might realise from looking at the title of today's song but it's the BB Eye version that I'm posting today.

  BB Eye are from the oddly named Knob Noster which is a city in Johnson County, Missouri. They previously appeared on this blog early last year with a song from their debut ep (http://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/bb-eye-texas-chainsaw-mascara.html). Since then they've released a 7 track maxi ep/mini album? called How To Stop Worrying And Start Quacking (you probably won't have heard many songs like lead track My Clam Is So Rottten). Then in December they took a rerecorded version of a track from How To Stop Worrying (Headcheese Heartthrob) and used it as the title track of a new 8 track album. If you're a fan of weird and wonderful then you can check out all 3 releases here :  https://bbeye.bandcamp.com/

  So what does it sound like? Well in my previous review I called it calypso new wave but I like the description of the new record that seems to be getting widely quoted which calls it "The sound of ducks fucking. The sound of little apple cores hopping around atop some cute boutique bootleg Plastics and Ramones Tshirts ! New Wave is rotting" Heck, just have a listen yourselves

  This is Cops With Indigestion....

Old men, young men
Preachers saying "Amen"
Taking up collection
Playing on a bass drum
How come the city never sleeps at night?

Red cars, blue cars
Payment overdue cars
Cops with indigestion
Millionaires and some bums
How come the city never sleeps at night?

The city, it never sleeps at night

Short girls, tall girls
Happy that they're all girls
Walking with tonight’s love
Holding hands and then some
How come the city it never sleeps at night?

Good guys, bad guys
Millionaires and show guys
Losers with their hands out
Pigeons begging breadcrumbs
How come the city never sleeps at night?

The city never sleeps at night

Long nights, short nights
Big hellos and goodnights
Dreams and conversation
Not a single ho-hum
How come the city never sleeps at night?

Old men, young men
Preachers saying "Amen"
Taking up collection
Playing on a bass drum
How come the city never sleeps at night?

BB Eye - Texas Chainsaw Mascara

  There's an in joke on the Global Punk Network that often gets trotted out whenever a song that's either ear splittingly noisy or weirdly off kilter gets played that goes along the lines of "Mrs Brookfield would like this." The truth is, she probably wouldn't, Mrs Brookfield is a fan of more melodic fare. Fortunately many GPN listeners enjoy something a little more left of centre than the norm. Several of them are fans of today's song.

  As you may have guessed if you've read this far, there's not a massive amount of info available online about BB Eye so I'm padding this intro out as best I can. From what I can gather they come from Kansas City and St Louis, they play Calypso new wave (definitely more weirdly off kilter than ear splittingly noisy) and feature members with names like  Miss Penis and Miss Lady (I think their real names are Martin Meyer and Olivia Gibb).

  They've recently released a 3 track lo fi, synth heavy 7" on Lumpy Records and you can download it here : https://bbeye.bandcamp.com/album/ep. There also seems to be a cassette on Fish Records called How To Stop Worrying And Start Quacking.

  From the single, this one's dedicated to Mrs Brookfields everywhere,  it's called Texas Chainsaw Mascara....