SIZE 14

Dave's Take:

Today I bring you a defunct band that went by the name of Size 14 and came out with one self titled CD in 1997. The only reason I happened to hear about these guys was one in of life's random events that comes your way. Back in the preinternet days I just happened to be listening to a "Cage match" on a raido station and these guys won for about a week with the only track you've proably ever heard from them: the hilarious "Claire Daine's Poster" that Bowling for Soup attempted unsuccessfully attempted to cover ( see the video below). Their songs are funny and nonsensical sort of in the vain of Bloodhound Gang but without the sexual innuendoes or references instead choosing to make fun of other things such as death metal rocker's in "Death Metal Steve" where they switch to a funny death metal riff at one point in the song. In the awesome pop-punk "Rollin in the 510" they make fun of thier car. The only song with major sexual overtones is the funny "Sleepin in the Wet Spot." The fast up-tempo "Shane", "People get really drunk in Las Vegas" and the semi-ballad "Superbabe 2000" about "a punk rock Sharon Stone" which has a sweet wah-wah guitar chorus round out the first half of the album. The second half of the album falls a little bit flat but I'm suprised these guys didn't get more attention back in the day when pop-punk was just starting to get heavy airplay. All in all a CD with a unmber of fun highly listenable tracks.

SIMILAR BANDS: WHEATUS, WEEZER, BLINK 182, MXPX

RATING: 6/10 (Second half of the disc falls flat)

BAND BIO: With punk-inspired guitar-poppin' antics, Hollywood-based SIZE 14 put out their debut CD in 1997. Named after the singer's shoe size, SIZE 14 - Linus (lead vocals, guitar), Kevin Danczak (guitar), Robt Ptak (bass, background vocals), Dave Armstrong (drums) - became infamous a few years back for their humorous yet honest account of "Claire Danes Poster."

BEST SONGS: Claire Daine's Poster, Rollin in the 510, Superbabe 2000, Death Metal Steve

VIDEOS/SONG SAMPLES:

1 Claire Danes Poster

3:00


2 Sleeping in the Wet Spot

3:20



3 Shane



3:16



4 Superbabe 2000

4:21


5 Rollin' in the 5-1-0

3:14



6 People Get Really Drunk in las Vegas

3:01


7 Agostino


8 Death Metal Steve

3:54


9 Let's Rob a Bank


3:14


10 Earthquake


3:46


11 Formula Guy

2:20


12 Prototype


3:55


13 I Touched Her Ass

4:07


14 Jimmy Whalen

2:59






CLICK STANDALONE PLAYER TO PLAY (ONLY CLAIRE' DAINES POSTER IS FROM CD)



BOWLING FOR SOUP TRYING TO COVER SIZE 14's CLAIRE DAINE's POSTER




LINKS:

www.myspace.com/sizefourteen

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