Quick, where’s the last place you’d expect a mission tribute band to come from? Concord was my first guess too… but my second was Ontario, Canada. Well it turns out that second guess was spot on!
Sure, be a snob and nitpick the liberal use of autotune and that premature Lady Gaga cover. But dig a little deeper and you’ll see that these guys are genuine mission. First of all, have a look at those jeans. Skinny, right? Next, take a listen to the track “Just Don’t Feel The Same”. What at first appears to be a song about lost love soon brilliantly reveals itself as a lament about a first visit to the Blue Macaw. “So Over You” is a subtle jab at Bi-Rite Market‘s inflated prices. And of course the title track of their EP says it all: “Cryin’ because My Burrito Fell Out Of My Timbuk2 Bag Somewhere Between 19th and 16th.”
In short: if you like the neighborhood, you’ll love the band. Personally, I think they are just ok. Their sound is basically a rehash of Limahl’s groundbreaking work in the fall of ’84.
Oh snap, I’d better watch it. They probably read this.
what is a “vic wong”?
A new guy who posts here. Also apparently the actor who played the old man in 3 Ninjas.
Oh you probably wanted to know more:
I like to write. I am a software engineer for pandora.com. I am a gypsy jazz guitarist. I run an iPhone-friendly site that aggregates a bunch of calendars for musical shows in the San Francisco Bay area: http://anouman.net/sfshows/
I technically live in Hayes Valley / Civic Center (Civic Valley? HayCiv?) Maybe someday I’ll start my own neighborhood blog: Hayes Haze. Our first post will be able how French bulldogs are adorable or some shit.
hey vic, Pandora rules, I just got a note about upgrading to Pandora One and I think I’m going to do it…
[...] Mission’s posted a review of (not) local band The Mission District. While this video of the band’s “Just [...]
Not to date myself, but in the 80′s there was a band from SF that was called the Mission District. It was a kind of Grateful Dead influenced thing with original songs. They played up and down the west coast for several years.
I think I’d rather take my chances with them than with Ontario’s finest skinny jeans outfit.
Ontario != Quebec
That music is AWFUL!
Christ, these Degrassi toolsheds would certainly qualify under the banner of “naive hipster fucks”.
alors, les putaines, j’pense qu’c'est un “put-on”
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