Smoking Popes

Live

BY Rob FerrazPublished Jun 1, 2000

The Smoking Popes never caught my attention in the first few years of their existence and their jump to the majors in the post-Green Day "punk revival" lessened my interest. So now they're gone and here is a posthumous live record collecting material from their eight-year existence. The music is melodic with a singer who has aspirations to be Morrissey. It's the vocals that add a wishy-washy element to this, often seeming out of place with the music, especially on the heavier songs.
(Double Zero)

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