The Ends
Concrete Disappointment
Dirtnap
2004
Rating: 6.5 mob hits out of 10
Hey, who says people from Texas can’t sing with a British accent? If Robert Pollard, born and raised in Ohio, can pull off Paul McCartney impressions, then The Ends should be allowed to sound as much like Joe Strummer and The Clash as they like. The songs on “Concrete Disappointment” are very catchy and good, especially the second track “Workin’ on Some Feeling”. For some reason I never mind when a younger band (or maybe any band for that matter) apes a classic group as long as the music is still enjoyable, and this very much is. This is a lot more common in punk, especially since everyone who writes a good poppy track almost always sounds like The Buzzcocks or The Ramones or The Clash anyways. And to the credit of The Ends, it doesn’t all sound like The Clash – the disk opener sounds quite a bit like Mott & the Hoople, which is pretty damn cool.
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