Everyone's favourite Belgian (he just edges out Tintin and Hercule Poirot) Dirk Ceustermans returns today to select a song from the new album by fellow Belgians
For more on the band click here : https://www.facebook.com/BRUCEPUNK/
And now over to Dirk...
What Fuss
Taken from - Captain, we've lost Bruce" 2019
The new release from Bruce is out and the boys are proud of it. They should be!
As true as they stick to their catchy formula of short tunes and words that are interrupted
with wahwah wailing guitar intermezzos, the result is yet another tuneful release which
pleases this man's ears!
They're a 3 piece band of youngsters of a respectable age that do songs they like
to define as garagepunk inspired by Australian punk as in Cosmic Psychos meets Zeke meets Ramones!
And we can relate to that.
Bruce has been around for decades, always keeping low profile and having a
blast everytime they come out and play. I first saw them when they'd released their first
CD in 1997, playing in a moisty cave under a pub in my town. I liked the band's stuff instantly,
Ever since, their releases get regular spins in my car!
The track I select is called "what fuss". It showcases the lyrical style of tongue in cheek nonsense
but with some social-commentary-aftertaste, not always as obvious, but lurking underneath.
A bit like death by Belgian chocolate: Appearing sweet at first, but bitter as cocoa
What fuss for name dropped heroes what fuss for men who play the blues
what fuss for Hollywood zeroes It’s a case of wearing the right shoes
what fuss no fuss make fuss and you got guts what fuss for a mongoloid baby
bad luck for all those family dreams what fuss it won’t look like his daddy
be sure it got his mother’s ears what fuss no fuss make fuss and you got guts
