Our influences are many and vast - including, but not limited to: Kids, The Figgs, Rancid, Charlie Sexton, The Knack, Ike Reilly, Juliana Hatfield, You Am I, Cheap Trick, The Smoking Popes, Candy Butchers, Odds, Jet, Everclear, The Cars, Sesame Street, The New Odds, Weezer, Material Issue, The Partridge Family, Sparks, Ben Folds, J. Geils Band, Fountains of Wayne, SteveSongs, Neil Diamond, The Gentlemen, Sly & The Family Stone, Duvall, Ratt, Some Girls, The Producers, Sweetwater, The Go! Team, Janet Jackson, The Who, Haircut 100, Bruce Springsteen, The Bees (U.S.), Wang Chung, Joan Armatrading, the ShysterS, Queen, XTC, The Archies, Government Issue, Robert Palmer, The Tomato Collection, Night Ranger, The Blues Brothers, Counting Crows, Elton John, The Babys, Any Trouble, Billy Idol, Hershey's Chocolate, Nonsense Anonymous, Brendan Benson, Lunch Money, The Kinks, Local H, The Jackson 5, Aerosmith, David Bowie, The Darling Buds, Rick Springfield, Kate Bush, Fatima Mansions, The Clash, Grover, KISS, Tom Jones, Julian Cope, The Wonder Stuff, Michigan, Chris Stamey, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Polonsky, Split Enz, They Might Be Giants, Andrew Gold, Roger Day, Ted Nugent, The Aquabats, Falco, AC/DC, The Replacements, Billy Joel, The dBs, SPYS, The Wallflowers, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Fastball, Ivy, Nick Heyward, DEVO, The Inhalers, Ren & Stimpy, INXS, Bobby Sherman, Books, Elvis Costello, Love and Rockets, Princess Katie & Racer Steve, The Police, Art Brute, Robyn Hitchcock, The Jayhawks, TIM, Matthew Sweet, The Carpenters, Steak, Adam and the Ants, Jude Cole, Jim Morrison, The Alarm, Sheryl Crow, The Virgins, Judas Priest, Crowded House, Jim Croce, The Ramones, Ernie & Bert, Imperial Teen, Green Day, New Order, Crash Test Dummies, Steve Weeks, The Vapors, Bread, Hop on Pop, Kim Wilde, Freaks & Geeks, Squeeze, Book of Love, Prince, The Monkees and Van Halen. Who's your favorite band? We sound like them too!
Just because kids are kids doesn't mean they don't deserve well-delivered rock'n'roll. But that won't be an issue with ScribbleMonster- this album is built with integrity, basic musicality and a heck of a rocking punch. In a day when family music can lean too much towards tinkly fairyland music, some good solid, punky rock'n'roll is a breath of fresh air. Packed with colorful, vivid, animated story lines and topics that bring to mind the imagination and appeal of Sesame Street, "Best of Friends" is lively, goofy and fun without giving up the basic quality and heart of the music. A highly recommended, energetic album." -CD Baby
thanks for being my friend ScribbleMonster!!! is there any way you could throw either some chord charts or tabs up somewhere? id love to play some of your songs!!
Hearing "I'm A Utility Pole" on XMKids on Sunday made my day -- and that's saying an awful lot, since we were driving home from the final day of the Austin City Limits Festival!
Hey everybody. I'm Ryan, Scribble Brian's nephew. Just wanted to say that the song of life is awesome! i watched you guys at Brookefield Zoo a few weeks ago when i first heard it. It made me laugh alot because a few days before the show i was playing LIFE wiht my girlfriend and we had to say who we were marrying. haha. so now its one of her favorite songs. cant wait for the new cd. -Ryan
Just dropping by to say "howdy." "Already to Go" is our new favorite song... after I explained to the little one that it's ScribbleJim singing, not ScribbleMonster. ("Good Morning..." is a close second.) Anyway, can't wait 'til the new CD is out in November!! - Jim
