Heroine Sheiks - Best Enemies / Oucha CDS
ARTIST.....: Heroine Sheiks
TITLE......: Best Enemies / Oucha CDS
LABEL......: Rubric
URL........: www.heroinesheiks.com
RIP DATE...: Mar-28-2006
STORE DATE.: Nov-13-2001
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 11,4 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Best Enemies 03:44
02 - Oucha 03:46
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07:30 min
Release Notes:
www.rubricrecords.com
Only two songs, but they're good songs. "Best Enemies" is an angry
trudge rocker -- it appears in a different version on Siamese
Pipe, but this is the version that starts with Shannon yelling out
the final lines of our National Anthem (by Radiohead). Side two is
your reason to buy, however: the only recorded version of "Oucha!"
If music is your game and dumb is your name, "Oucha!" will deliver
like a mailman delivers mail to your home.
In "Oucha!," the guitar player plays four ascending slop distorted
grunge chords while Shannon yabbers off a bunch of German-sounding
jibberish in an evil Storm Trooper voice. At least I assume it's
jibberish because my half-German wife tells me that there is no
"Ch" noise in Germany (or "Dutchland," as they call themselves
because they think they're Dutch). She also tends to make rude
comments whenever this song is playing -- for example, "Are you
listening to this for PLEASURE?" and "Did I LIKE it? No." But as
the man of the house, I think it's as funny as any episode of
Hogan's Heroes (which reminds me -- do you think that the working
-class skinhead band "Hogan's Heroes" are aware that they've named
their band after a show starring a bisexual deviant?). Especially
when all the music goes away and the fake-German narrator
continues to acapellaly intone the extent of his physical pain.
"Oucha! OUUUUCHA! Oh! Oh! Oh shit! Oh! OUCHA! etc." Then it ends
with a multi-bugle/Army drum march, and you wonder if you've just
laughed at some sort of neo-Nazi joke.
You probably haven't. The singer's name is "Selberg."
(markprindle.com)