Review
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start
And Nothing Is #1

Ohev (2003) Shane

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start – And Nothing Is #1 cover artwork
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start – And Nothing Is #1 — Ohev, 2003

The minute someone seriously suggested this name for the band, I'd have to show him the door. The name is not clever, loses it's novelty factor quickly to where it just gets annoying, and doesn't fit this band AT ALL. I was fully expecting a keyboard fronted band with some snotty vocalist. Instead what I was exposed to was a band that fits the "emo" mold these days with a touch of Death Cab For Cutie. Featuring lyrics such as, "I know you'll find out I'm a geek with a lowercase g," you'll find out quickly they don't have the cleverness of Ben Gibbard's writing. In short, give it up guys. You failed at the music thing. Try croquet.

2.6 / 10Shane • February 28, 2004

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start – And Nothing Is #1 cover artwork
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start – And Nothing Is #1 — Ohev, 2003

Recently-posted album reviews

Carnivorous Flower

Carnivorous Flower
Dead Broke Rekerds (2025)

There's a time to be cerebral and there's a time to tell it like it is. Carnivorous Flower lives by the latter. Their debut has 10 songs: 18 minutes in total. Each of the songs is catchy as heck and you can pretty much singalong on your first listen. It's "simple" punk with peppy energy and a lot of heart. … Read more

SUB/SHOP

Democatessen
Independent (2025)

Richmond, VA has always had a way of bending punk into something sharper and stranger, and Sub/Shop feels like a direct product of that tradition. Their EP democatessen isn’t a debut in the wide-eyed sense but a statement from musicians who’ve already spent years inside heavy, confrontational music and are now choosing precision over spectacle. Across six tracks, Sub/Shop delivers … Read more

Guerilla Teens

I Cyclops / Pride of the Savanna-7"
Heavy Medication Records (2024)

One-eyed wind-up dancing eyeballs boppin' and weavin' with Scott "Deluxe" Drake and Jeff Fieldhouse from the one and only and never replicated the almighty "The Humpers". I was lucky to see them back in the 90's in Toronto at a hot, sweaty club in the dead of summer, back when there was a blue hue of cigarette smoke, a faint … Read more