gee golly wow I'm tired this morning.

I went to see the ravonettes last night. A friend had an extra ticket. While getting drunk and watching them, I came up with a list of three reasons that I really didn't like them.

1) they used way too much in the way of pre-recorded backing tracks - vocal parts, keyboards, percussion, guitar. I'm not an absolute purist in this regard but, really, that kind of stuff for a "rock" band should add to the sound not make your crappy noise worse.

2) they seemed like they should be the band in a early 1990's movie or tv show. you know when the characters go into a bar or club and there's, like, 5 seconds of a band playing. they're that band.

3) I know they're going for a girl group kinda schitck, but, really, their vocals make them sound like a more rocking version of timbuk 3. I know you're thinking "ha, that dumbass knows what timbuk 3 sounds like!" but with their being from austin, enough of it has crept into my brain to recognize it.

in conclusion, I'd like to offer this review of the show: bleh.