IS THAT ALL THERE IS? ![]()
One of the loudest of the “disco sucks” crowd among the friends that I had back then pushed The Knack as what we should all like instead. All I had ever heard at that point was “My Sharona”, and I was inclined to say with Peggy Lee: “Is That All There Is?”. (March 2012) * * * Like the women’s music pioneers before them, there is hardly any sexuality on the Boyskout songs; and anyone can enjoy this CD, which sounds great on the first spin and only gets better over time. Even on “Girl on Girl Action”, the sexy mood of the breathey vocals is undercut by a very slow rendition of the iconic quote from the chorus of “Is That All There Is?”: “If that’s all there is, my friends, then let’s keep dancing / Let’s break out the booze and have a ball”. If I had to guess, I would imagine that Boyskout heard “Is That All There Is?” as performed by PJ Harvey for the soundtrack of the film, Basquiat (1996) rather than the Peggy Lee hit version of “Is That All There Is?”. (January 2014) |