76: Pushmonkey – Pushmonkey

The only reason you probably don't have Pushmonkey's self-titled album (1998) is because you weren't listening to WONC in Naperville, IL in 1998. They started playing "Caught My Mind" and I was hooked. I special ordered the CD from a music store in Austin, TX, the band's home base. This album is everything a good rock album is. While over-produced by some standards, the songs are fantastically arranged. Every song on Pushmonkey is an earworm waiting to eat your brain.

Pushmonkey is Pushmonkey's second album, but they had been around since 1994 and by the time the album was recorded, they were tight."Handslide" was the single that made some mainstream radio playlists, but I think they were a little too weird to see much success from it. But that's fine by me.

Tony Park, the lead singer, also plays trumpet. His trumpeting is showcased in "Maybe", a remake of "Sweet Caribbean Bungalow" from their debut album, Maize (1994). "Maybe" is one of those tracks I've actually put on repeat alone during one of my sociopathic song obsession episodes.

The School of Rock commands you to buy this album and listen to it until those little earworms make it to your hypothalamas, at which point you will need to put on some Metallica to kill them.

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