#45. Dog Fashion Disco- Anarchists Of Good Taste (2001)
There are many bands within metal who distort the boundaries of what's acceptable musically and all too often bands are too outlandish for the sake of it and lose their identity and overall sound. Not so with Dog Fashion Disco. Like a bastard offspring of Mr. Bungle but with more of a grounding in Metal, DFD peddle a furious mish mash of sick humour, crunchy riffs and a playful sound that stretches into Jazz, Vaudeville with an infectious backdrop of the sound of a church organ underpinning most of their music.
I first encountered DFD on a freebie disc that came with a Metal mag and they immediatedly stood out amongst the crowd. The Metal template is adhered to but they frequently took trips into territory that most Metal bands daren't approach with fear of coming across as kooky and phony.
They are relatively easy to listen to yet sound like no one else out there. When bands manage to pull this off in the hermetically sealed world of metal and still are easy to listen to then in a listening spree of over 20 years of Metal I have to sit up and take notice.
The album never becomes too alienating or overblown to become unlistenable and it remains cohesive and challenging with each listen. I love it when bands fuck with genre conventions yet still remain listenable.
I only recently started listening to these guys and have only heard Adultery (and some other non-DFD albums), so this was my first time hearing this track. The Mr. Bungle influence here isn't quite as apparent as in the stuff I have heard, however, I do hear a good bit of Portrait of An American Family-era Marilyn Manson. And being that that album holds a special place in my musical history and is MM's best album, that's alright by me. I had planned to check out other DFD albums so I might as well go for this one next.
I've never actually listened to this band but I just want to say that aside from the stereotypical metal band logo, the album artwork is nice and has aged very well. I think it would be just as current if it were released today. Underground hip-hop, maybe. I think it's great.
