Bomb the Music Industry!
They're looking at me with their glossy eyes, they're gonna bury me.—"Everybody That You Love"
Bomb the Music Industry! is a Long Island ska-punk band formed in 2004 by vocalist/guitarist/saxophonist Jeff Rosenstock. They are known for their DIY ethic which includes homemade T-shirts, forming their own record label, and giving away their records for free. They have released five full-length albums on their record label.
Tropes found in their music include:
- Christmas Songs They planned to release a Christmas song EP, but it got delayed until February and changed to a President's Day EP, leading to lines like "My family will be excited when they look under the Presidents' Day tree."
- Concept Album Get Warmer is a concept album about moving, being broke, and being unhappy in general. Surprisingly, it's quite happy.
- A Good Name for a Rock Band Their name becomes this and you discover that "bomb" is a graffiti term, meaning "to take back".
- I Am the Band Jeff, who writes all the songs and, for the first two or three albums, played all the instruments.
- Anti-Love Song Many, but "I Don't Love You Anymore" really sticks out. Ironically, it's about quitting drinking.
- Lyrical Dissonance A lot. One example is "Everybody That You Love", a peppy, energetic song about witnessing a drug deal then running away from the dealer.
- Three Chords and the Truth Some of their songs from their early albums, but generally averted.
- What Could Have Been Jeff planned to have a Concept Album based on the contents of a tape that he "found" detailing the story of a American submarine attack by Russians during the Cold War. He decided midway through that it sucked, and it was scrapped, with a few of the songs ending up on Goodbye Cool World.
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