This week on Her Jazz! I dig out the ol’ 7” collection and share some of my favorites.

Hi-Beams, “White People”

It’s not fat-bottomed girls that make the world go ’round — it’s white people. That is, the anger felt towards them, even by other white folks. When I plucked this out of a dollar bin years ago I thought was picking up some design inspiration. (Really, check out that hot sleeve — don’t you wish you had her shoes? And what was up with all the right triangles used in the 80’s?) What I got instead was a snotty condemnation of suburban blandess, packaged up as a trendy new wave number. Which is nastier: _We’re white people and we don’t care_ or _Where has all the color gone?_ Hard to tell, especially with the way the band whips out line after line, in a dizzying fashion before imploding into an echoey mess. It’s just a shame about these Diz-like whoops — were they too afraid of getting, like, grounded? Do contemporary suburban kids feel this angry or are they too preoccupied whoring themselves on Myspace to care?

If you know how to track down anyone from this band, feel free to post a comment!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 at 11:00 am and is filed under mp3blog.