Yuppie Pricks

Appetite for Consumption (Chicken Ranch)

Six years have passed since a kindred spirit sat in the Oval Office, so the Yuppie Pricks return with more punky hard rock than hard-rocking punk. Obama has apparently given the Austin quintet a lot of contempt to unleash given that LP four, Appetite for Consumption, sports a raging metallic edge. The band beats on the commander-in-chief on “Obamacare” and “Obama,” credited to the Sex Pistols, but otherwise celebrates their moniker’s lifestyle with snot and power chords. They high-five “Country Club Days,” brag about “Phoning It In,” and declare “Life Is Easy” (“when you’re white”). The band also slums in hip-hop by rewriting Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Posse on Broadway” as “My Posse’s on Wall Street.” Given the various machinations of a vast Right Wing Conspiracy, can it be coincidence that the Yuppie Pricks return just as the Republicans take control of Congress? Get Keith Olbermann on it, and rock out with the 1%.

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This article appears in December 26 • 2014.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.