Released by Big Stir Digital Singles Series on June 21, 2019
www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles
“Let’s (smile and) salute Butch Young’s lighthearted send-up of sourpusses everywhere. Power Pop aficionados will note the affectionate appropriation of a Van Duran album-title. This presumably rhetorical question is periodically posed to our eponymous Captain, a dyspeptic sort we’ve all had the misfortune to encounter (and perhaps on the Wrong Day, to have been).”
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REVIEWS:
For all the sour, sad sack boys and girls out there, Butch Young’s eminently catchy, sweet-with-the-sour, Brian Wilson-with-a-touch-of-George Harrison ditty “Captain Serious,” about a guy to whom a smile is just a frown turned upside down, is your song. For everyone else, this song is a melodic pop confection par excellence from a Pure Pop Radio favorite.
I quote lyrics fairly often in my reviews, because I believe the words married to music are just as important in the long run, if not more so. Young’s depiction of this much-too-serious captain of his industry includes some rather clever wordsmithing. To wit: “Captain Serious / Is looking sour as a lime or a grape / His face is dour as some days-old lemonade / Left to spoil in the rain”. And this: “Oh, did your mom make you so? / She never really let you play your rock ‘n’ roll / Oh, did your Dad come home / And catch you reading Tolstoy all alone?”
Alan Haber
Pure Pop Radio
June 25, 2019
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released June 21, 2019
c. 2019 Butch Young
Butch Young: vocals, acoustic guitar, piano + virtual (midi) instruments
Matt Lee; electric guitar + bass
Jeffrey Martin: drums
Mixed by Alan Brownstein
Mastered by George Shilling