HEMI CUDA: Classics for Lovers

Hemi Cuda

Classics for Lovers

© 2000 Hemi Cuda (659057485720)

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Femme fatale fronted pop-punk explosion

tracks

1 Hemi Cuda
2 Do What I Please
3 Hop, Skip, & Jump
4 Jimmy West
5 Karen's Theme
6 Betting Man
7 Don't Start
8 After School Special
9 Drag
10 Atomic Runner
11 Cool Hand Luke
12 Fucked Up

notes

Hemi Cuda, from Denver, CO, released their first full length CD, "Classics for Lovers" on Olympia, WA, indie label POP SWEATSHOP, and also on vinyl on THUNDERBABY RECORDS based in Germany.

Throughout the five years Hemi Cuda has been together, they have had the pleasure of playing with such bands as: WHITE STRIPES, Hell's Belles, AGENT ORANGE, The Donnas, GLUECIFER, The Street Walkin' Cheetahs, THE BELLRAYS, Los Infernos, THE GAZA STRIPPERS, The Forty-Fives, ZEKE, J. Mascis & Mike Watt, and GWAR, amongst others.

Sugar and Spice and Something gone terribly wrong...these girls are the alpha bitches of gritty girl rock.

"Make no mistake: The girls can rock, bangin' out power chords and fast-action three minute songs while harmonizing about boys and cars...coordinated wardrobes, superhero poses and playful onstage banter makes them a fun band to watch...

"The Denver trio, led most glamorously by guitarist/lead vocalist Anika Zappe and bassist/vocalist Karen Exley, has become known as much for its hooker fashion and spaceship hair as for its nearly perfect power punk and tough eroticism. While lots of bands use the notion of sexual empowerment as a gimmick or joke, Hemi Cuda's feels pretty real.

Classics for Lovers (is) a twelve-song gem that leaps out of the speakers like a hot rod in a qualifying round. These are quick blasts...sweet and lethal as good pop songs should be." - The Westword Newspaper, Dec. 7-13, 2000.

"Two hot blondes in stacked heels with big guitars. What more can a rock guy ask for? This Denver act blends punky sounds and heavy metal thunder to come up with a sound that's reminiscent of such bashers as L7, early Redd Kross, or the Muffs.

Most of these tunes start with a hard and heavy crunchy bass line that could melt the paint of yer Camaro, followed by some punk riff but with a metallic Joan Jett-like hard rock/metal vibe. The tunes reek of sweaty sex and lots o' beer and drugs and that makes me happy.

Pretty cool stuff here for all you hot n' horny men, or chicks who love to fuck and fight (and not necessarily in that order). They may not be quite as accessible as The Donnas but I'd bet they'd beat their ass in a streetfight!" - KNAC.com, Pure Rock, Feb. 20, 2001.

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  • Leaps out of the speakers like a hot rod in a qualifying round.
    author: Laura Bond

    Of course, in the case of Hemi Cuda, the Sweatshop's most recent signee, fabulous wardrobes and an I-dare-you-to-fuck-with-me persona are an added bonus. The Denver trio, led most glamorously by guitarist/lead vocalist Anika Zappe and bassist/vocalist Karen Exley, has become known as much for its hooker fashion and spaceship hair as for its nearly perfect power punk and tough eroticism. While lots of bands use the notion of sexual empowerment as a gimmick or a joke, Hemi Cuda's feels pretty real; one of the band's newer songs, "Thick and Tasty," extols the pleasures of performing fellatio to a seesaw beat that couldn't be more jolly. This weekend, Hemi Cuda releases Classics for Lovers, a twelve-song gem that leaps out of the speakers like a hot rod in a qualifying round. These are quick blasts, over in a minute or two, sweet and lethal, as good pop songs should be. "After School Special" needs to be on the radio immediately (someone make a note of this), while "Jimmy West" and "Fucked Up" are catchier than nasal drip. Drummer Scott Padawer's playing is exceptional (sadly, he's left the band because of an inability to tour regularly; the ladies are looking for a replacement), and Zappe and Exley's vocal harmonies are a perfectly sweet counterpoint to the often irreverent or silly words they're singing ("Cool Hand Luke/Has chains on his legs/Cool Hand Luke/He'll eat fifty eggs!"). With their pink wigs and leather minis, Zappe and Exley know they are hot stuff -- more important, though, is that they know how to play. Classics for Lovers may not be music for a quiet romantic evening, but it will definitely put you in a mood.

  • Hemi Cuda is simply a better version of the same rock.
    author: Becky Kreidler

    How much farther is the climb from the latest Sum 41 album to the great grrrr-girl rock of Hemi Cuda? You can either climb to a false peak of a fourteener or you can hike on to the stunning vistas at the top. Hemi Cuda is simply a better version of the same rock. Of course, the Hemis are better in so many ways: Their songs are better, their tattoos are better, and nobody rocks guitars and thigh-high boots like the Hemi Cuda ladies. All these bands and so many more on the Denver scene deserve airplay...

  • hard-hitting, super-tight, punk/pop
    author: East Coast Of The West Coast

    12 tunes of pure/hard rock and roll that knocked me on my ass. I didn't know that a band fronted by two women could rock my world so hard. Tight harmonized vocals and catchy riffs. A definite needed additioned for any personal collection. Nikki Siete - Music Editor

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