The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

Release Date: 2004 | Tracklist

4 of 4 thought this review was well written

The Tony Danza Tap Dance Experience are a spazzy grind outfit. They make the DEP sound like easy listening and they are quite fast hard grind. One thing I noticed about them is that they aren’t that fast for a grind band though they do have some exceptionally fast moments. Some moments there is fast drum fills and then there is your basic wall of sound. There is even a moment when the guitarist breaks into Sweet Child ‘O Mine for 4 seconds. They have a pretty silly name but do not let that distract you, especially if you’re into grind. There are constant breakdowns and some are quite humorous and funny.

The songs have some funny little bits in here and sometimes they take parts of other songs. It’s fun to guess the song they take parts from. It’s basic grind with the “grinding" riffs, crazy drumming and the loud screamed vocals to top it all off. The album is only 22 minutes so there is doubt if it is an album or an EP. The guitars jump from high note parts to chugga-chugga parts. The drumming is very fast and has lots of double bass. The bass has its moments and the vocals are quite loud and harsh in the way DEP incorporate it.

This interesting while it lasts but I do have a major complaint. It is hardly going to win an award for originality. It is your same old down to earth basic grind. Fans of the genre will love this start to finish but people getting into the genre will find this boring and uninspired. Since I am a fan of the genre, I like this a lot but for what it is, it could have been much more. It could have been a bit more different than other grind out there but it seems too familiar. It’s so cliché; we’ve seen it all before. I also have another complaint. With grind, the songs are usually a minute long but a lot of these are average song length. It gets a bit stale when listening to the same song. There are seven songs on it and it makes up 22 minutes while if this was a traditional grind record, it’d be 20 tracks with 22 minutes. The songs start to get boring a lot and repetitive.

They could have cut down the songs or at least cut them into different parts to make them listen able. Sadly, it’s hard to write a 1000 word review on a grind record like this so I’ll just leave it as this: This album isn’t going to appeal to anyone other than the familiar grind fan. The songs have a long duration for a grind record and none of them do anything that much different. The whole record isn’t going to revolutionise grindcore. It is fun for a while but gets old fast. I am simply going to give this a three since I am a grind fan but to those outside the genre then I simple give it a two. Lap this up, fans of the genre but don’t expect anything new.

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2.7 average