Give The Drummer Some - Please!

Zumpano released a couple of swell albums on Sub Pop in the mid 'nineties, which is a coincidence that shakes the very foundations of our belief in rational order, because here they are! What are the chances of that? Don't even begin to think about it.

Mr. Zumpano, a drummer, disbanded his previous group because he felt it was "artistically impure". Well, ooh-la-lah and get him! I'm not about to apply any standards of artistic purity to this endeavor, but Look What The Rookie Did is way better than anyone had the right to expect, given that it's a drummer leading the band and it's the mid-'nineties, when everything stopped happening and turned into sink trap sludge. Bristling with perky pop smarts, this is an album you and your deadbeat pals will want to frug like crazy to! Roll back the rug and break out the root beer!

The second is perhaps artistically a lesser work, but its fans number in the thousands (Penwipe and Hildegard Thousands, of Chowderhead Falls, Wis.). "Gee! Is it ever swell!" they aver. But the cover is shit on any and every level. Mr. Zumpano may be forgiven his hobgoblin fashion sense - this was the 'nineties - but trying to pull off a Many Moods Of Murry Wilson cover concept needs someone with the emotive range and rugged good looks of ... well, Murry Wilson.

Some moods the guy had!

Mr. Zumpano just looks like a prize-winning doofus here. Which I'm sure is a wholly inaccurate and unfair representation of a very fine and humble human being. Of course, we're not factoring in the main product of that terrible decade - finger-waggle - "irony". The whole thing might be, like, ironic? Brother, would my face be ever red! 
 
Did you live through the 'nineties? Are you sure? let us know what they were like!