When the majority of music sent to us prides itself on complexity and clever lyrical word play, it is a gust of fresh wind to receive a record as simple and fun as Quit Your Dayjob’s Open Up. Coconut!  This is music for the rebellious ADD youth in all of us.  It is fast, short- most of the songs are over before you knew they started- and most importantly entertaining!

Where a Sufjan might stuff 30 words and two semi-colons into their song titles, Swedish punks Quit Your Dayjob choose just one they like, repeat it over and over again, then name the song after it.  Take ‘Look! A Dollar!’ for example.  This bouncy surf-punk song is basically an instrumental piece, except for the occasional proclamation of- you guessed it- “Look! A dollar!”  The same applies to ‘Vlado Video’, although on this track, there are a few more lines of lyrics to go along with its electro-dance beat (they name drop screen heroes Steve McQueen and Chuck Norris! Rad!). 

This is seriously a whole bag of fun.

[mp3] Quit Your Dayjob - Look! A Dollar!
[mp3] Quit Your Dayjob - Vlado Video

Bonus!

[video] Quit Your Dayjob - Coconut
[video] Quit Your Dayjob - Vlado Video