The Bad Things

Bubbling forth like a mossy belch of polka filth from the greasy, jet fuel-contaminated wetlands of the Northwest, comes The Bad Things. With junkyard waltzes and shameless shanties, The Bad Things are hellbent on providing traditional music for the post-apocalyptic era.
"In their press sheet, Seattle "junkyard cabaret" outfit The Bad Things dubs their brand of punked-up klezmer boogie "the music of the Post-Apocalyptic Depression Era." A cursory perusal of any news source indicates that we've reached that milestone, so we might as well embrace the soundtrack. The Bad Things crank out a mad, spiraling gypsy swing that will appeal to anyone who loves DeVotchKa, Gogol Bordello, the Circus Contraption band or life itself." The Spellout.com
From the Seattle Post Intelligencer: SeattleNoise: The Bad Things
WHAT: Known to some as Seattle's premier "junkyard cabaret" band, this sextet is a carnival on wheels.
QUOTE: "If you listen to our songs," Berg explains, "you'll see that many of them are about people doing bad things, i.e. killing their lovers (or in a couple of songs, an entire town), drinking too much, drugging too much, killing themselves, etc. I always thought of the band as a sort of gang that celebrated the darker sides of life. Our gigs feel like celebrations, but the subject matter is pretty dark a lot of the time -- creating an interesting dichotomy. The idea becomes, 'Drink up now because bad things happen every day, and we're all gonna die someday no matter what.' And, yes, people should do bad things to our songs or at least think about doing them."
CAREER DEBUT: July 22, 2002, as part of a Pirate Radio benefit at Freeway Park, although for several months prior the group had been busking as a three-piece at Pike Place Market.
SOUND: As if a bunch of Gypsy marauders were performing macabre circus sideshow songs around a campfire in the middle of an abandoned cabaret that serves wine in a jug and mead on tap.
RELEASES: Their 2003 demo, "The Bad Things," came with a handmade cover but is now out of print; 2004's "The Bad Things" is considered their proper debut; the band also had a song ("Angel's Disguise") featured on the 2006 compilation "Girlfriends and She-Devils: A Tribute to the Femme Fatale," followed by "Vaudeville Show" and next week's release, "It'll All Be Over Soon."
INFLUENCES: "Lyrically, I was inspired by the train-hopping gutter punks that I kept company with as a young man. While I never hopped trains, I loved the stories told while drinking under bridges and around campfires, and I think we all had a deep love for folk and old-timey music."



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