ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES
Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah
Fat Wreck Chords
· Punk-rock coverboys one-up themselves with a live concert album.
The well-honed shtick behind Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is this – five semi-famous punks join forces for fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek covers of all kinds. This time they go a step further and offer a 13-song concept album played live at a bar mitzvah. If the cover of "For the Longest Time" by Billy Joel wasn't enough to make you smile, how about three-chord versions of "O Sole Mio," "Auld Lang Syne" and "Hava Nagila?" The bonus video that accompanies the CD is a nice touch, but it's the no-fucking-around version of "Stairway to Heaven" that is going to get played to death.
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