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Amazon offers The Resignation (Bonus DVD) (Audio CD),15 July, 2003

List price $14.98
SKANK! / 5
Assuming the acid-wrought art damage cover art didn't immediately pique interest, here is a consumer exercise:

Imagine your favorite punk rock album. Now, replace the sloppy playing, half-baked guitar solos, and whiny, Rotten vocals, and replace them with one of the tightest rhythm sections ever witnessed by human ears, gorgeous, harmonized sax-plus-trombone riffs, and a singular voice that positively drips sincerity.

You're not listening to the radio. You're listening to the RX Bandits firing a shot across its bow.

Whichever background you hail from, there's something to like on "The Resignation." From blistering punk rails against superficiality ("Sell You Beautiful") to politically-charged reggae rave-ups ("Overcome"), to moody, dark dance-rock that, for once, actually takes absolutely no inspiration from Depeche Mode at all ("Taking Chase As The Serpent Slithers"), it's a record that fires on all cylinders and never fails to deliver ("Decrescendo"). If none of this is intriguing, there's also at least one 7+ minute prog-flavored adventure present, and enough energy to power a steel drum factory.

You can complain about the lyrics in a time where one of the recent pop hits of the moment included the line "you make me wanna la-la." You can pretend that it's not interesting music and that you're "above" such "juvenile" endeavors. You can even play the part of the checker-pantsed ska ubermensch and myopically declare that there are better ska records to be found, in blind assumption of a singular genre's uncontested dominion over all things musical (see: metalheads).

You can do any or all of these things... and you can also get the hell out of my car/apartment/place of business.
Song "Nothing Sacred"
In our world's degradation we take
for granted all we have
And all that we were given.
When was the last time that you looked up
and gazed upon a shopping mall
And said, "how beautiful?"
So one more time you hear my voice,
we are the youth you have the choice.
So use it wisely.
Where could we have ever gone so wrong?
Nothing's sacred.
We're burning lands on consumer demands.
Nothing's sacred.
They pave the world in concrete soon nothing,
will be natural, but only artificial...
Artificial and commercial a superficial front for what is wrong;
Human parasite.

Amazon.com: Progress: Music
Progress, RX Bandits. ... Spotlight Reviews (What's this?) Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. ...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005LZV1?v=glance

Rx Bandits Reviews on Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Music is the best source of information about Rx Bandits, including ringtones, bio, downloads, videos, radio, discography, similar artists, reviews, ...
http://launch.yahoo.com/ar-294058-reviews--Rx-Bandits

Rx Bandits - MEDIA
In|Your|Ear Magazine (Review of 'Resignation') ... All Content Copyright Rx Bandits and Two Twenty Two Inc. 2003 - Best Viewed IE 4.0+ 1152 X 864 ...
http://www.rxbandits.com/media.htm

Rx Bandits: Progress - PopMatters Music Review
Rx Bandits, Progress (Drive-Thru), review by Jason Thompson.
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/r/rxbandits-progress.shtml