Allusondrugs

Don't let the aeordynamics of my cool lead you to believe I didn't have a 90s grunge fetish bro. Along with the rock and roll of my dad's generation, the plaid shirted and solemn angst of Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Silverchair and the like molded the musical preferences I have today.

I was into anything that required my complete attention, anything that made me want to plan complete fucking road trips around just doing the song justice.

As a guy who listens to music just to feel something, there are immediate aspects of any genre'd independent music that either perk my interest or completely disconnect me. Allusondrugs immediately hit me as a smooshwich of my favorite late teens/early twenties rock. It's the shit I can imagine myself sitting with my Walkman pressed up to my forehead and as soon as a song is done, I hold down the rewind button and try and memorize how many seconds it took to rewind the tape back to the beginning of the song.

It wasn't that I didn't have access to CDs bro, it was that this was before CD-R's bro. To have the exact music you wanted at the exact moment you wanted it was still half a pipe dream away bro.

If you left your house with just one tape, you had just that one tape.

Usually a band's particular album had an attitude about it. You brought out the Appetite For Destruction when you wanted to smoke stolen Marlboro Reds in an alley where you wouldn't get caught, but you brought out the STP Purple album when you bought your own Camel Wides and had a vehicle to drive nowhere in. Allusondrugs, in this particular bronalogy, are the midpoint between Appetite For Destruction and Purple. and include having an older friend with a car and a stereo, but you're still stealing Marlboro Reds (and lighting them with matches bro, cmon).

Allusondrugs are without question the redheaded stepchild of STP, Silverchair, and a weird Weezer feel that I hear on just one track, but it's like a blatant nip slip in that I've rewound to see the nipple a few more times than a few bro. I am not shitting you when I say this band is 33% Wool (YOU REMEMBER THE BAND WOOL?), 33% STP, Silverchair and Weezer and 33% shitty weed in cigarette pack cellophane.

I love a shitload about the self titled EP from Allusondrugs, and yes, I do have a small portion of the album that I abhor, but the parts I want to hump vs the parts I want to shit on are, mainly cause there's only six individual tracks, 70% humps bro.

I want to travel back in time to me late teens and see if I could get down with this shit, because it totally feels like something now I could've totally humped back then.