Bargain Music

Since the past due ’90s, the Los Angeles-based Bargain Music continues to be known for just two main things: (1) their penchant for quirky, eccentric, humorous lyrics, and (2) their music eclecticism. Musically, Bargain Music is definitely everywhere. Their material is actually alternative rock, however the Southern Californians will — based on their feeling — incorporate anything from reggae, hip-hop, funk, or spirit to rock or punk. Sometimes, Bargain Music actually incorporates country; a few of their tracks have been highly relevant to the alternative nation/No Depression picture (including “Hell No” and “Consuming with Trey”). But generally, their work is commonly on the cool side, as well as the valid evaluations add the Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers, Living Color, Primus, 24-7 Spyz, Prince, and Rick Wayne to Peter Tosh and Lee “Scuff” Perry. Some observers possess found it unusual that a music group that is affected by reggae, funk, spirit, and hip-hop would also become influenced by nation, but lead vocalist/keyboardist Josh Fischel views it as flawlessly natural. Inside a 2000 interview, Fischel defined some parallels between reggae, hip-hop, and nation and asserted that three of these are “musics developed by economically stressed out people.” Bargain Music was shaped in 1997 in Lengthy Seaside, CA, the L.A. suburb which has spawned everyone from gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg to Mexican-American banda celebrity Jenni Rivera to Sublime — a favorite, ska-friendly alternative rock-band that Discount Music offers often been in comparison to. Nevertheless, Fischel continues to be quick to tension that Bargain Music and Sublime are two extremely different-sounding rings. Fischel shaped Bargain Music along with his friend Sean Whisner, as well as the performers they recruited in the past due ’90s included bassist Jeff Ward, guitarist Trey Pangborn, vocalist/rapper Skeleton Guy, and trumpeter Dave Williams (amongst others). By the finish of 1998, Discount Music was circulating their demonstration cassette Feelin It (Tough Mixes), which can be referred to as The Green Tape. From then on, they employed bassist Mike Watt (of Minutemen and fIREHOSE popularity) to create their first public record, 77 003, that was released with the Washington, D.C.-structured Beatville Records in 2000. The next year, Beatville released Cook the Coffee beans, an record that ranged from brand-new music to previously unreleased and remixed materials. On the way, Bargain Music provides been through a lot more than their talk about of lineup adjustments. Williams still left the music group in 2000, as do Skeleton Guy. 2001 discovered Pangborn removing as well, and finally, Zach “Zippy” Goodin became the band’s guitarist. After that, in 2002, Ward announced his departure, and he was changed by Matt Brein. Fischel, Brein, and Goodin will be the primary participants over the Magic HAS ENDED, which Beatville released in 2003. JUST A LITTLE Flavor Of… was released in early 2005, implemented the next calendar year with the stripped-down mainly acoustic American Given birth to, which prominently highlighted Fischel out entrance. That record would end up being the band’s last, as by 2006’s end, Bargain Music announced their dissolution.