wheatus

Who remembers Wheatus' song Teenage Dirtbag? It was a huge hit a few years ago. A great song, but what you probably don't realise is Brendan B. Brown, the fella behind that song also produced one of the best power pop albums of recent years. The album is called Hand Over Your Loved Ones. This isn't an album of disposable pop songs for young kids, it's filled with real songs with lyrics about heartache and disappointment and all tinged with a bitter black humour. The seriousness of the songs are honey coated in sweet harmonies and singalong choruses, but don't let that fool you. Here are a couple of tracks for you to sample. The first is Fair Weather Friend and the second is Lemonade. If I could play a musical instrument and knew how to write songs, then I'd want to have written Lemonade.