CKY - Carver City (Roadrunner, 2009)

I got a funny story about CKY. Well, funny in a horrible way. I own a CKY shirt. I wore it to school one day back in freshman year (of high school), when you could still wear any shirt you wanted and not a school uniform shirt. This day also happened to be the day of a memorial for a senior girl who committed suicide. CKY stands for Camp Kill Yourself. Granted, no one but me and maybe two other people at school knew this and I had no idea it was the day of the memorial (I'm not that much of a dick) but I didn't attend, regardless. This story kind of gives you an insight to the humor of the band. They're funny guys who like horror movies and making the occasional introspective statement. Carver City is they're newest album, that I haven't listened to yet. Apparently the titular city is a coastal getaway with it's fair share of bad luck and misfortune. Let's see how we enjoy our stay....

Commentary:

• And they got my head rocking on the first riff.
• "You'd surely disbelieve it"
• Does that work? Like grammatically? It sounds weird.
• Synth solo!
• Sounds like Dan Swano.
•  CKY with a melodic death metal touch? Fuck yeah.
• Oh and some power metal-ish vocals, yeaaaaaah!
• And now I'm remind of Duran Duran. They're all over the place.
• I want to dance. But he's singing about finding a dead body under the boardwalk.
• So I won't.
• I will forever think of My Name Is Earl... when I hear about the concept of karma. Thanks, Jason Lee.
• (Even if you are a crazy Scientologist.)
• I always forget that CKY likes to growl from time to time.
• He's gotten better at it.
• No album is complete without a song about a deadly rollerskating race.

Well, that was fun. Glad to see CKY hasn't changed much. They've always had a good natural progression in their sound and this album continues that.

Krom approves. (He digs rollerskating. SO WHAT BRO?)

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