Sunday Music Spotlight - Lost Locker Combo

High School. Depending on your experience the words either bring waves of nostalgia or cringes of fear. Most people remember high school as either Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or The Breakfast Club, with little in between. Either way high school is a touchstone. That’s probably why NY punk band Lost Locker Combo poses as a group of private school kids who formed a band, and why they sings songs about the mundane details of high school life.

The band dresses in the sweater vests and ties that we all associate with private school life, with a couple of cheerleaders thrown in for good measure. Their songs revolve around standard parts of the high school curriculum. This shtick might get old if they weren’t so punk. Their first album, Freshman Orientation, presents the songs interspersed with morning announcements and teacher’s comments.

Lost Locker Combo - Grammar-monkey

I think it’s well documented on this site how much I’m fascinated by grammar. So it probably goes without saying that I’ll be a sucker for a song about subject-verb-agreement.

Lost Locker Combo - Pemdas

Now that we’ve got the grammar out of the way we can move on to math class. Our next lesson is in the Order of Operations. You know, Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.

Videos
Introducing the band:

Playing “Don’t Eat at Subway” in a thunderstorm:

Links
Buy Freshman Orientation at Amazon
MySpace
Whoao Records