God Save The Queens Kansas

God Save The Queens

Impotent Sea Snakes

Masquerade Records, 1995

REVIEW BY: Paul Hanson

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 12/11/1998

I've had this tape in my collection for a few years and onlyrecently pulled it out again. It had two inches of dust. I couldn'tremember why.

Then I heard the music and it all came back to me. I rememberedwhy I had Scotch taped this tape shut! I should have used graytape, though.

The Impotent Sea Snakes are five transvestites that play averagepunk, peppered with profanities and absurd imagery. If you couldstrip away all the odd images the Sea Snakes want you to thinkabout, God Save The Queens might actually be a decent disc. Thedeliberate sexual overtones don't really allow the band a chance todisplay their musical talent because you're listening to thelyrics, reacting in shock. To get a better idea of what the SeaSnakes are about, I could just list the song titles and let yourimagination do the rest.

The disc starts with "Chicks With Dicks," followed by "PornStar" where lead singer 13 boasts, "Be a red light district star/42nd street celeb/ Recognized in sleaze bars." Of the 12 tracks,only 3 don't contain vulgarities. The band notes that fact in theliner notes: "Note to Nutless DJ's: Cuts 3, 5 & 12 contain noprofanity." The Sea Snakes are about being offensive, getting areaction and leaving the listener speechless. Why else would a songbe written about fucking kangaroos in "Kangaroos (Up The Butt)"? Orabout going to a "lesbo orgy dressed in drag" in "Daisy Chain?"