Full Service

“I Wanna Go Home”/”Ice Cream Cone” (Fiesta Red)

For better or worse, this road-tested quartet doesn’t betray its role as opener for Sublime tribute act Badfish with this candy apple red offering. “I Wanna Go Home” spins on a pleasant-but-derivative groove, while the playful “Ice Cream Cone” comes off (thankfully) more ridiculous than sublime. Its nostalgic, accordion-laced intro and outro hint at a Full Service beyond the sum of its influences.

This article appears in December 28 • 2012.

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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.