Winzenried
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Winzenried, aka The Hollywood Drunks, are from Los Angeles, California. Listening to their two albums, I get the impression that they were heavily influenced by Sublime, however, it also lists David Bowie and the Kinks as influences on their myspace.
I’m still kind of confuse about their name, I thought perhaps they were once known as The Hollywood Drunks before changing their name to Winzenried (which apparently I can’t spell without copy and paste), and their latest release is The Hollywood Drunks Christmas. I really think picking one name is in order!
The thing about them is that it looks like they like comic book (their Swell album artwork looks like something from Image Comics) and they seem to be having a good time on the recordings. I can only imagine what they’d be like jamming on stage.
They also seem to have a great sense of humor, reading their self-written biography. Such as Eric Winzenried’s lack of hair to being a “food delivery specialist”. These kind of experiences and humor project themselves on recordings such as “Food Delivery” and the Intro on Hooray!!.
Hooray!! features some nice transitional (or bridges) between full songs, I wish this would’ve continued onto Swell. I guess I did prefer Hooray!! a little more between the two, because it contain some really fun and catchy songs including “Ohio” with it’s catchy lyric: “oh why, oh why oh did I leave ohio”.
It also contain “Hollywood Drunk” which you can see why I think this should’ve just been their band’s name. I think vox had trouble playing this song, if you can’t hear it, let me know and I’ll fix it.
On Swell, I thought their cover of “Sesame Street” was pretty faithful, adding more of a jam improvisation feel to it.
I thought I’d use “I Get It” as that pretty much represent Winzenried’s sound. This song has a bit of dub/reggae and even some ska.
For more information, check out their official website. To hear more songs from Hooray!!, check out myspace.com/winzenried. To hear songs from Swell, see myspace.com/hollywooddrunks.
01/15/2008 08:25:03 vu my♥posts 
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