Audio By Carbonatix
CU’s sex-and-booze scandals make Animal House look like Romper Room. Still, the 1978 John Belushi film popularized a relatively raucous time in American pop culture: the era of frat rock, that surf-drenched bastardization of R&B that blared across university campuses in the early ’60s. The Orangu-tones have frat rock down to a science, from the buzz cuts to the bleating saxes, and they’ve captured the whole thing on Pledge Kappa Epsilon Gamma. “Monkey Boy,” a savage reworking of the Premiers’ “Farmer John,” is just one of the disc’s cuts that would have fit seamlessly on the Animal House soundtrack. Toga! Toga! Toga!
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