Driver Eight -- Watermelon

8/10

Now here is an unfairly neglected album. Just one listen to Driver Eight's Watermelon will make you dream of a mid-90's summer afternoon, watching some lazily rocking music videos. In fact, here is the video for Driver Eight's "Strange."

You know what? I can't even review this. After watching this, I am getting so depressed thinking about how unfair it is that I got the 90's and kids today get the horrible, horrible, (skip below, this is about to get ridiculous), horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, so bad it is indescribable crap culture that exists today. In the 90's, independent alternative rock was an unpretentious, easily found element of the flourishing music scene. Is there music like this anywhere anymore? Not really, and there aren't music video channels, and the summer is like ten degrees hotter, and we are at war with like eighteen different countries, nobody ever actually talks to each other, and everything, everywhere, all the time suuuucks.* BRING BACK THE 90's, NOW!!!

1996 Tooth & Nail Records
1. Watermelon 3:27
2. Polish 4:10
3. Cheers 3:36
4. Strange 4:18
5. Getting This Thing to Go 3:21
6. Waiting for Godot 3:19
7. Brown Paper Bag 3:38
8. Drive 4:16
9. Sunbittern 3:33
10. Carrousel 4:48
11. Superglue 3:26

*I might have exaggerated a little bit in this sentence for nostalgia's sake. A world in which the 90's existed can't be all that bad.