There are bands who've taken The Ramones' desire to be dumb as their raison d'etre and then there's The Blueskins, who clearly exist purely to be young, dumb and full of (s)cum.
This kind of attitude can be disastrous, sure, but in small doses, The Blueskins' caveman approach can be damned exhilarating, and "Change My Mind" proves to be one of those occasions, with Wakefield's finest punking up the mad, railroad rhythms to glory and the slide guitar so searing it virtually leaves stretch marks.
Flipside (such as it is on a CD single) "I Wanna Know," meanwhile, is so intellectually challenged it's the Black Hole of Calcutta, spilling out further neander-rock thrills, ridiculously OTT lead guitar and Ryan Spendlove howling like Robert Plant after a night at the Badass Tandoori. Positively larvely....and still not as stupid as their ultimate anthem "Lager And Lime."
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This writer still gets the feeling that headlining Peter Kay's "Phoenix Nights" rather than Wembley Arena would be far more suitable a fate for The Blueskins, but as dumbing down goes, at present there's no sod to touch them. After a vanload of pies and 13 pints of snakebite, it couldn't possibly get better than this.
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