Review of Savvy Show Stoppers from the August 17, 1990 issue of CMJ New Music Report
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So you've been buying (or scamming) loads of Beach Boys CD resissues
and now you're ready to hear some lovable surf-pop resurface in a
'90s band. Well, look no further than the shadowy grooves dished out
by this land-locked Canadian trio, who let their watery imaginations
go wild. Artfully combining some of your favorite riffs of the past
with candy-coated melodies, these enigmatic men make shaking your
bikini-clad hips and tossing your bobbed hair seem like the coolest
thing since Sex Wax. Savvy Show Stoppers is a compilation LP
culled from six instrumental 7-inchers released on the band's own
Jetpac label, most of which garnered airplay on Canadian college
radio. You may unknowingly be familiar with the Shadowy Men from
their theme song and soundtrack for the cable TV comedy show Kids
In The Hall; but in case you're not, here's your invitation to
one helluva rockin' beach party. Wax that board while humming these:
the spy theme "Good Cop Bad Cop," the chuckle of "Theme From T.V.,"
"Zombie Compromise," the slow, evil grooves of "Shake Some Evil."
"Bennett Cerf," "Having An Average Weekend" and their covers of "Run
Chicken Run" and "Harlem By The Sea."
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So you've been buying (or scamming) loads of Beach Boys CD resissues
and now you're ready to hear some lovable surf-pop resurface in a
'90s band. Well, look no further than the shadowy grooves dished out
by this land-locked Canadian trio, who let their watery imaginations
go wild. Artfully combining some of your favorite riffs of the past
with candy-coated melodies, these enigmatic men make shaking your
bikini-clad hips and tossing your bobbed hair seem like the coolest
thing since Sex Wax. Savvy Show Stoppers is a compilation LP
culled from six instrumental 7-inchers released on the band's own
Jetpac label, most of which garnered airplay on Canadian college
radio. You may unknowingly be familiar with the Shadowy Men from
their theme song and soundtrack for the cable TV comedy show Kids
In The Hall; but in case you're not, here's your invitation to
one helluva rockin' beach party. Wax that board while humming these:
the spy theme "Good Cop Bad Cop," the chuckle of "Theme From T.V.,"
"Zombie Compromise," the slow, evil grooves of "Shake Some Evil."
"Bennett Cerf," "Having An Average Weekend" and their covers of "Run
Chicken Run" and "Harlem By The Sea."