Album Notes

You hate spam. He hates spam. He took revenge in his own little way.

To call the prank phone calls isn’t exactly accurate. Is it a prank phone call if some jerk initiates it by sending an unsolicited commercial e-mail? The Spam Avenger puts out some bait and gets the spammer to phone him.

Semantic questions aside, The Spam Avenger takes a verbal swat to the head of e-mail spammers. What do you do with internet gambling companies, pyramid investment schemes, cell phone salesmen, and faceless, shifty characters? Mess with their heads!

The Spam Avenger calls this process “strategic annoyance” or “pranktivism”. Stick it to the spammers while laughing yo’ azz off.

Do Know Evil compiles the best of the long lost sequels to One Man’s Attempt to Rid the World of Unsolicited E-mail and Dance Remix 2003. It is a great leap forward as it combines both a capella phone calls with hard-hitting dance remixes. The radio pseudo-hit “Caveman (One Million B.C.)” leaves listeners rethinking the origins of the merchant banking. Furthermore it features a special guest appearance by Yngwie J. Pramsteen on lead guitar.

"A concept remix of a concept album is pretty high concept indeed, but let me try to put it in perspective. Imagine the computer synthesized voice from Radiohead’s OK Computer repeatedly calling Thom Yorke at home trying to sell him anti-depressants. Thom gets angry, but doesn’t hang up. Then Negativland gets a hold of the tape and – voila! Musical genius. You see what I mean..."

"The only criticism is that at times the Avenger’s brilliant telephone baiting tactics get lost in the mix. I would gladly trade prodigious musicianship for comic genius any day of the week, but as far as sequels go, this one is better than Jerky Boys 2."

- FFWD weekly, Calgary, Oct. 2003, regarding Dance Remix 2003

"I’ve yet to meet anyone who approves of spamming, the equivalent of obnoxious billboards on the information superhighway. This secretive Spam Avenger character takes his contempt for bulk e-mailing to a pathological extreme. Vengeance is his as he rings up firms that deal in spam and subjects their reps to gruelling and humiliating routines. The approach is Jerky Boys, the delivery is somewhere between Steven Wright and Son of Sam—the Avenger’s surreal, off-his-meds requests (claiming to be a professional eel impersonator, for instance) are punctuated by hilarious stretches of awkward silence. Man, you can cut the tension with a knife at points. For the full picture, go to www.myspace.com/thespamavenger. 8/10

- Montreal Mirror, October, 2002, regarding One Man's Attempt to Rid the World of Unsolicited E-mail