Bodyjar- How It Works

How It Works is Bodyjar's fourth studio album, which was preceded by No Touch Red. It was released in 2000, the same year as Warning by Green Day, Pennybridge Pioneers by Millencolin and Conspiracy Of One by The Offspring.

Kicking things off with a brilliant opening is Not The Same. From the moment it starts, it is pop-punk perfection: biting lyrics, fast-paced, nice arrangement, brilliant main riff and a great singalong chorus. This song was the sole reason I bought the album, and it remains an all-time favourite song of mine.

From there it goes downhill badly. Such is the tight definition of the pop-punk artform, the mediocre songs are probably 99% similar to outstanding ones, but somehow these do nothing for me. Not helping the cause is that the recording of the cymbals sound like a badly compressed mp3.

And the fade-out ending of Feed It? Lame.

A rare exception is the other single, Fall To The Ground, where the storytelling stands out as wonderfully captivating. Therefore, I suspect that the lyrics are the perhaps the reason why the rest of the album completely misses the mark for me.

To avoid dragging out the trainwreck, here endeth the review.

Favourite songs

Not The Same, Fall To The Ground

Worthwhile?

Absolutely not. I should have just bought the single for Not The Same.