Been waiting to post this and the next post at the same time for a little while. For those of you from Albany in the aughts you most likely remember the Band Olympics, where local musicians all threw their names in a hat and were drawn at random to see who their band for the month was. This gave an opportunity for some real serious shitshow material, but sometimes it really paid off. In the case of the Band Olympics of 2008, there were two real standouts: Stewarts (who will be featured in the next post), and Spread 'Em. Consisting of Brendan from Scag Rotter, Matto of everything Albany, Heather of Zahnarzt, and Ben of the Honor Society, they penned a few songs and recorded a demo.
Hilariously cocky, Spread 'Em even showed up to the Band Olympics with t-shirts that declared them the winner printed long before the show even happened. To the surprise of some, but certainly not them, they did indeed win. Punk comedy sounds so shticky I know, but there are a lot of genuine laughs contained on their demo and this follow up 7" with the addition of Kurt from the Disenchanted on guitar. Pretty straight forward punk with songs covering topics like inflated cost of pizza, malicious zits whispering dark commands, and even the desire to be the son of King Kong. No other band in Albany, to my knowledge, has had such an impact in their short lives that several young women got the band name tattooed inside their thighs. What a ride this band was while it lasted.
Tracklist:
- Punk Rock Son of Kong
- Too Many Zits
- Megatron
- Pizza Crisis
- Jamie Lee Curtis Fingerbang
- Group Hug
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