In honor of the start of the NHL season this week, Random
Records is all about hockey. Which means the Hanson Brothers! Now would be a
good time to mention that if you haven’t seen the movie Slapshot, drop what you are doing right now and go watch it. The
Hanson Brothers obviously take their name from that movie. It’s the side
project of the guys from Nomeansno, playing Ramones-core all about hockey and
beer. Sudden Death was their second
record, released in 1996.
It should be pretty obvious what kind of music you’ll find
on Sudden Death. While Nomeansno tend
to have rather intellectual songs, the Hanson Brothers are juvenile. Musically,
they sound like every Ramones-core band. Lyrically, it’s beer, girls and
hockey. The best part of the Hanson Brothers is all the hockey references. Sudden Death features songs like “Stick
Boy”, “Third Man In”, “Rink Rat”, “Danielle (She Don’t Care About Hockey)”, “He
Looked a lot Like Tiger Williams”, and their version of “The Hockey Song” (see
below). Yeah, hockey’s great.
If you enjoy this, check out the other Hanson Brothers
records, Gross Misconduct and My Game. Also check out the Hextalls, a
band that does basically the same thing as the Hanson Brothers.
*This was originally posted Oct. 2nd on Change the Rotation, a music blog which I occasionally write for. Check it out here: http://changetherotation.com/
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