Search - Manic Hispanic :: Grupo Sexo

A joke band that's actually better in some respects.

epsteinsmutha | At the bottom of Juan Epstein's excuse note | 05/04/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Heard these guys on the Christmas episode of Little Steven's Underground Garage and picked this up hoping "Santa Got Run Over By My Chevy" was on it. It wasn't, but for a joke band, the covers are often better than the originals.



Humor, especially un-PC (read: black) humor, has been a mainstay of punk since the days of The Ramones and The Dictators. Manic Hispanic carry on that tradition, even topping da Brudders in their parody "Tijuana Affair."



Even though this is on a major affiliated label, this is probably one of the best albums I've bought this year, and I buy a lot of them.



Signed,

epsteinsmutha"

As time passed it see it's a 4 star. Please, release some li

Chris bct | San Diego, CA USA | 01/23/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This is their 5th album. 2005. Great idea. Do really tight covers of classic punk songs and change the lyrics to funny cholo lyrics. Funny stuff. Be sure not to miss 'em live. Meanwhile, they have some cool t-shirts too in that case changing classic punk logos into humerous Chicano themed logos.



Update 03/09:

I really wanna like their albums knowing how great they are live. And now I do. Not as much as the joyful, funny, total cholo/punk live experience but still the albums all have the humor, the musical tightness and totally bring back the original classic punk songs but in a fresh way. Sure, the live shows have a blast of energy that the albums don't but the albums are all high quality work and totally worth hearing again.



It'd be totally cool if they released some live ones albums and dvds! All dressed up as ranchero mariachi's, great stuff man. Then another show back to their cholo clothes. And the guy from the Adolescents on guitar, every time he sings that Misfits cover it's like perfection. Their studio stuff just doesn't zing while their live stuff is always good and sometimes plain spellbinding. Albums revisited: I'm a believer. It works, yea, in the shadow of the amazing live shows but still, they're strong and totally enjoyable recreations of punk's early classic songs with cholo humor lyrics. Ese... [..]"