Honcho
Overload - Singles
The
five songs from this Champaign band's first two singles originally
released in 1992 are now available in a digital format from
our digital
distribution partners.
Honcho
featured Matt Talbott (Hum/Centaur/We Ate Plato), Jeff Dimpsey
(Hum/National
Skyline/Poster Children/Bad Flannel), Bill
Johnson (Parasol Records/The Texas Navy/Morning
Becomes Electric/Bad
Flannel), K.C. Driscoll (We Ate Plato), and Mike Rader (The
Great Crusades/The White Family Singers/Poster Children/Broken
Kockamamies).
Five tracks are available: the Helmet/Jesus Lizard
time signature inspired (it was 1992, y'know) "Wish," the
grunge catharsis (it was 1992, y'know) of "Wrists & Ankles," the
drawn-out, live favorite "On The In" which was
inspired by events in Charles Willeford's book "Pick-Up" (a
great read for the hardboiled fan in you), the band's most
popular song "Miserable" which has since been covered
by many bands from Champaign-Urbana including Sarge, Menthol/Mother,
Steve
Pride and His Blood Kin, Angie
Heaton, and The
Violents,
and an alternate version of "Sugarfoot" which -
like "Wish" - was later re-recorded for the band's
debut album "Smiles Everyone."
Press
darlings:
" ...Does
this mean that you should buy it unquestioningly? Strangely,
yes... 'Miserable' is a french-fried love song for
the '90s, powered by a guitar that sounds like a vacuum cleaner... Hurrah
for Honcho!" -Alternative Press
" ...[F]un
and reckless abandon...give power to the tunes...
pumped to the bursting point with noise [and] weirdness...
Sloppy,
crazed guitars make for some enjoyable chaos, while the
rhythm section is tight as a clam...a damned good start." -Option
"Honcho
combines sing-along choruses twisted over chords of dissonance
and fuzzy harmony to create easily memorable tunes of rejection/hate/alienation...
[T]he hooks are the kind that wake you from a cold
sleep wondering where the hell you heard them." -Your Flesh
"Thirty-seven
hundred bottles of Mad Dog ago, there lived a little band
in the burg of Champaign called Bad Flannel. This legendary
group featured... lead singer Bill Johnson and [guitarist]
Jeff Dimpsey... Honcho Overload is like an older, wiser,
gentler, kinder, happier, sneezier Bad Flannel... Thankfully,
Johnson and Dimpsey are still there to lead the pack, and
their new band is making big kahuna sound waves... onetime
Poster Kid Jeff Dimpsey uses his guitar the same way alien
races try to communicate with the Earth... While Honcho
live shows are notorious... it's Honcho's bitter love songs
that'll really send you into the stratosphere!" -Illinois
Entertainer
"Emerging
from the wreakage of the now notorious Bad Flannel, members
of Honcho Overload have now become the elder statesmen of
the new crop of Champaign-Urbana bands... Honcho has a unique
sound that defies a label... competing and often contradictory
guitar rhythms coupled with catchy hooks put Honcho into
a category of one... 'Miserable' is a beaut of a
ballad that has become somewhat of an anthem for the music
scene in Champaign-Urbana..." -Pure
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