The Walrus - Music With Big Fuckin' Teeth!

10/28/2007

Cool It Reba's "I Saw Snakes"

Throughout pop-culture, snakes have definitely gotten a bad rep...and for good reason. I mean come on, what was the ONE thing that the otherwise fearless Indiana Jones actually feared? Snakes. Which creatures had the power to cause utter chaos at 30,000 feet and make the veins in Sam Jackson's protrude every other second? Snakes. Ok so we get it...snakes are scary. But can they be funky? Cool It Reba thought they could, and they proved it on 1982's cooky punk-funk gem, "I Saw Snakes."

Reminiscent of The Talking Heads, Television and Wire, it's a creepy tale that uses our lovable reptile as a metaphor for a doomed relationship. The guitar riffs are awesomely angular and the lyrics are wonderfully ridiculous. "I saw snakes in the doctor's office! They looked at me and said 'we got it all!'" Retarded and great.

Their only EP, Money Fall Out The Sky, is available on vinyl at Pink Moon Records.