Thursday, August 21, 2008

Frank Bango - International Sign For Sorry

“There’s a stray dog in Manhattan and another in Iraq. If we only knew the language we could take the whole thing back.” There’s a lot tied up in this wonderful lyric, and I love that Mr. Bango is willing to share his intelligent look at the world with such up-beat, pleasant music. There’s no way you can listen without tapping your foot while listening intently to where he’ll take us next both lyrically and musically. He starts off with a guitar and a drummer leading us down the railroad tracks of Europe, but we quickly transverse the world and special portions of our solar system (Venus and Mars). “There’s a monkey on the table, there’s a tiger in the zoo. There’s a poem only children know about the evil that men do.” In the end we realize this is truly simply a love song, “And I’ll wake you up with a kiss. I bet nobody ever loved you like this.” Love for the world, for peace, for intelligence. Whatever you choose to love, Frank Bango has you covered. Nice work. Frank Bango