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Young Playthings, The
Dionysus/Hell Yeah
General | Mar 2006

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2006-03-31
Retro rock from Dionysus records. Female vocals, melodic and crunchy guitars and beats that smack more of New York 60’s influenced new wave a la Blondie or Patty Smith than straight Shangri Las or the Seeds. Moments of Pretenders too. Lots of Farfisa. A couple awkward studio moments where the guitars or the vocals don’t really translate. Something tells me this band doesn’t record well but smokes butt live.

1) surfy beat, hooky “love sick” chorus
2) more standard late 70 pop wave feel
3) more patty smith/blondie melodic type feel, but super slick hooky melodic, almost mainstream but not lyrically
4) jangly ballady
5) standard pop rock feel
6) very retro sock hop feel
7) upbeat pop rockin melodic, sorta so-so vocal breaks
8) simple basic rock
9) smarmy love song, slower swingy almost slow dance, heavy farfisa

Recent airplay

Plastic Toy
Foreplay and Sex WaxMay 24, 2006
Elegant Narcotic
Evil TwinsMay 17, 2006
Sweet Pea
Brownian MotionMay 03, 2006
Sweet Pea
Distraction-LimitedMay 03, 2006
Sweet Pea
On The WarpathApr 29, 2006

Charting

2006-04-09 — 2006-06-11
Week EndingAirplays
May 28 1
May 21 1
May 7 2
Apr 30 2
Apr 23 2
Apr 16 4

Track listing

1. Love Sick
2. Gimme Everything
3. Plastic Toy
4. Bring Your Heart
5. Teenage Tricks
6. Sweet Pea
7. Lovers Tonite
8. New Baby
9. Elegant Narcotic
10. Jeffri