Taco - After Eight
1982 Housekeeping
Taco
After Eight
Genre: Novelty New Wave
1.5 out of 5
Anyone know Richard Cheese? He does lounge versions of popular rock/pop songs.
How is it that Taco is anything different? These are all ~30-40 year old standards (at the time), with a drum machine and synthesizers. It’s all very wink-wink, get it stuff.
I think it just helps prove what mashups did in the early 00s: All music is the same just dressed up differently. “Singing in the Rain” and “Puttin’ On the Ritz” are the biggest examples of this but, man, that latter just fucking goes on and on and on forever.
Now, it’s not JUST covers. Taco wrote some stuff. Hit me in the face with a…taco…I had no idea. His stuff is steeped in that white glove aesthetic so, “Tribute to Tino” is his play at being Iriving Berlin. Meh, Taco.
We were really just trying anything in the 80s, huh?
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