The Rubatos - "Warning Bad Dog" @ Score! Music Magazine

	The Rubatos - Warning Bad Dog
	Location	Los Angeles, California
	Initial Impression	When did the Crash Test Dummies decide to try their hand at industrial redneck tunes?
Notable Lyric	"She had black fishnet stockings on up to her rear / That’s what made him decide to buy her a beer" from “Each Others Dreams.” By the way, these guys need to learn some basic punctuation rules.
Factoid	Lead singer - “Uncle Dale”
Serve With	Miller Highlife and pork rinds.
Comments	Well, the lead singer is named “Uncle Dale,” first of all. And it just gets worse from there. These six songs are seemingly talk-sung from the lobby of an abandoned truck stop somewhere south of Leonard Cohen’s goth nightclub. The clichés fly as fast as a stream of tobacco juice. And to top it all off, the Rubatos tend to throw in saloon-inspired piano ditties, avant twanged mashes, and They Might Be Giants riffs into the corked jug mix. But on the plus side, the CD only contains six songs.
URL	www.rubatos.com
Reviewer	Julie Seabaugh (2/03)