Member Since: 6/20/2005
Band Website: thismeanswar.net/water/mps/
Band Members: Fuzzy, Brother Stephen , Alan, Dave and Jim Teacher
Influences: Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Pussy Galore, Tom Waits, Black Flag, The Cure, Dinosaur Jr., The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Slackers, The Blues Explosion, The Misfits, RL Burnside, Melvins, Elvis Presley, Smokey Robinson, Roky Erickson, Pixies, Rocket From The Crypt, Miles Davis, Fugazi, The Clash, Ramones, Urge Overkill, Stevie Wonder, Stooges, Leatherface, Rolling Stones, and Otis Redding.
Sounds Like: The singer: He presents his narratives in a voice somewhere between a punk-rock Louis Armstrong and Tom Waits committing hari-kari. I don't know whether or not he gargles with ground glass, but Teacher's guttural ranting sounds positively painful. If his performances make you think the Multi-Purpose Solution routed an articulate street crazy out of Washington Square Park, stuck him in front of the microphone, and let him do his thing, well, they've probably made their point.The band: The guitars scrawl and stutter while the rhythm section sticks to the basics. The bass guitar plays eighth notes on the roots, the drummer keeps four-on-the-floor, and the lead guitar shoots oscillating sixteenth-note patters through the fog like signal flashes. Cymbals: big, splashy, and frequent.The songs: Unusual; songs without a clear center but never without musical focus. Many of these compositions feint toward verse-chorus structure, but substitute tag lines for releases. Multi-Purpose Solution songs build toward foci rather than resolutions -- toward moments of heightened intensity.-- Tris McCall
Record Label: Pink Apparatus
Type of Label: None