FLIBBIDDYDIBBIDYDOB

     For those of you reading-challenged, that phonetically spells flibbiddy-dibbiddy-dob. This album is from a band named Snuff who sounds like they're from the 80's because, as we later found out, they are from the 80's. There are actually too many fun facts about this band to include in just this paragraph so I'll come back to it in a paragraph at the end. I may have cheated a little bit with this one. I didn't get it at my usual record store, or a record store at all for that matter. I picked FLIBBIDDYDIBBIDYDOB (I'm just gonna refer to it from now on as "the album") up at a thrift store in Ventura where there was definitely a qualifiable variety that could be dubbed a bargain bin. I guess the attractive aspect about its album cover was the compilation of different signs and things almost like a scrapbook or magazine cutouts under the glass on tables at classy restaurants. I didn't have much expectations about this album other than it was probably upbeat based on the bright colors on its cover, which proved to be true.
     So about the sound: If I were to compare them to another band I would probably choose the Clash, also from the 80's, for their likeliness and also the fact that I heard them on the radio today. The album started out very brash and before I even knew what I was hearing the lead lick from Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water." The second track was more substantial and had that kind of obnoxious vibe sometimes found in Blink 182 or Green Day that continued throughout almost the entire album. The next few tracks blended together in their stunted-punk glory. Certainly got the impression that the vocalists were yelling at me, but then again it was the 80's. Track 6 was a tiny bit different from the rest, sounding more psychedelic and relaxed and loosing most of its prehistoric Green Day/Blink 182 vibe. Track 7, like the first track, was a cover. And the remaining four tracks, except for track 9, retained the demanding, obnoxious vibe of many of the previous songs. This whole album lasted a total of 17 minutes and 31 seconds. Eight tracks were named on the back of the album but the album actually had eleven albums which was a little bit baffling. Overall, the album was okay. Very played-out and overdone for 80's music; though they could have been the first, who knows?
     So now here's a bit of background information on the band Snuff. FLIBBIDDYDIBBIDYDOB was apparently a mini album of theirs which was composed of covers and some tricked out versions of commercial jingles. Track three was based off of a jingle from a carpet freshener, and track 10 was the jingle from Kellogg's Bran Flakes. The album actually only had one original song while the rest were covers. Very stereotypically 80's was the band with their long hair and "trusty tour bus." They broke up in 1991, but recently came out with a new album just this January titled WoodProp.