Considering the success of the Mars Volta -- whose Frances the Mute is my early-line favorite for year's best album -- and crossover of Blood Brothers, I have to think -- Blue Meanies were a band before their time. I have been jamming Full Throttle in the Saturnine hoopty of late, and the spoken, but full-throated, passages and circus-horns and skittering guit-bass-drum remind me almost too much of the aught-three, Ross Robinson-helmed crossover (I wouldn't say sensation, but) surprise Burn, Piano Island, Burn!. And, it makes me think, if it weren't ska, which is a tired genre nearly from when its moment starts (and the moment seems to arise every fifteen years or so; the why of it I will reserve to explain later time), third-wave (or whichever else) ska, would Blue Meanies be a touring machine a la Mars Volta (playing Europe as headliner, U.S. as support for various arena-rock tours) with favorable write-ups of their quirk a la Blood Brothers? I don't know... But I would hope so.
