BBIDS
Boredphucks, Banned In Da Singapura – The Boredphucks were a Singapore band that put out one album (that I know of), got arrested and banned in Singapore for uttering a vulgar phrase in Hokkien from a public stage; they disbanded, moved to Australia to find fame as the SunS, before band drummer Wayne Thunder dropped dead suddenly on May 20th 2007. Sad, that…
The music is great, though, and quite varied throughout this album, as they try out nearly every rock style, and then some! “Boredphuckin” comes off like the Sex Pistols, with some surf rock, the Beach Boys, and snotty yelled Datsuns-ish vocals. Good fun. “Ballad Of Tabitha” is a sweet little punk ballad. “Kita Nak Seks” is a combination of a bunch of genres, and starts off with some island music, sounds from a party (including some pretentious “I are/is the most happening party, mon” mock rasta), and a bit of sweet singing over a good beat, mixed up with some gnarly punkism. Fun talking lines, sugary lyrics, some steel drums, all make it a lot of fun. “Your Friends” has naughty lyrics, is a bit tighter than “Kita Nak Seks” and seems to be from the same session – punk mixed with steel drum and an island vibe (and naughty lyrics). “Baby When You’re Gone” is nearly a Bon Jovi-like power ballad a la snotty vocals. “Phuck You Pt 1″ is a sort of country song, “Phuck You Pt 2″ is strange and experimental at first, then quickly becomes the best song on the album – a great punk song full of energy and obscenties and insults. Love it! “Grunge Car” is about a dirty, crappy car, and is done in a pretty pop-punk way, with a bit of silly German-voice, Brit-voice chatter about cars. “Untitled” is a girl moaning in ecstasy for the Boredphucks while silly music plays. Hmmm… “Rock With Ya” is very AC-DC rock-y… or maybe more like Cars-y. “She’s the only reason I go to church, praying for a chance to look up her skirt.” “Battle Over Endor” is a lame pop song with piano that becomes a screaming scum/grindcore song that moves as fast as these guys can hit the drums, before becoming a cookie monster death metal song (I wasn’t kidding when I said that they go all over the musical map with these songs); in the end they return to the “loveliest flower” stuff. I want to see the lyrics for this… “St Pats Classroom” is a bunch of talking, simulating a gang of jaded boredphucks sitting through a calculus lesson, insulting each other, sparring with the teacher, talking about watching pornos… “Phuck Da School” is the natural follow-up to this, a snotty punk song full of shit and piss and snot. Great sounds, great riff, powerful chorus, fantastic sound. “Ai So Kan Mai (Live)” is a powerful live track of the great song, starting off with crowd sounds, big gongs, a Wu Bai-ish riff, and the full rock assault with plenty of cymbals going, crowd anthem singing, lots of gruff singing and playing, pure rock! Lots of crowd shouts too as the vocalist talks to the crowd as if he were from MC5, great response. The song that follows it, “Beautiful Day”, is a weird disco track that has a sorta Bollywood/Indian feel to it, with its vocoder vocals in the chorus and all that shimmering stuff. “1-2-1″ is a silly Hokkien cowboy song. “Zoe Tay” is the famous song that makes fun of the Singapore Star’s bad English. It rocks!
Here’s The SunS doing their version of Zoe Tay.