This is essentially the point where I’m starting to get to songs I like to listen to. I have no doubt that the MC Bat Commander actually had the idea for this while standing in line at a grocery store thinking about the end of the world–but none of that makes me enjoy listening to the song with images of a river of blood running through my head.ħ1.
I actually appreciate the joke here–which, I assume, is supposed to be a chill song in shocking juxtaposition with gruesome lyrics about the end of the world. That, and I guess the trumpet part is one of their better parts–but that doesn’t make up for “Sometimes it’s mighty lonely when you’re all alone (with a loaf of bread).” The only good thing about “The Baker” is that when the ‘bats play it live, they usually throw out delicious pastries to make up for their decision to take up a slot on their precious set-list with an extremely subpar song about a menial, jealous baker. From the first few seconds, you can tell it’s going to be bad–the vocal count down is out of sync with the rest of the band and the high pitch synth part (that persists the ENTIRE song) is just too much. Although this Hi Five Soup! doozy has a typical zany Aquabat concept and lyrics, FFOTM has uniquely awful instrumentals that we don’t see anywhere else in their discography. On their latest album of mostly decent songs, “Food Fight On The Moon” stands out as their only obvious shortcoming. As one of several songs almost certainly about a dream MCBC had one night, this nightmare would have been better left unrealized. Its one redeeming quality is the excellent horn part about 3 minutes in, but even The Aquabats themselves recognized this good horn part was being wasted on a bad song, so they recycled it into their rare “ I Love the Monster” b-side. It’s creepy, slow, filled with shrill harmonies, and doesn’t even remotely fit their normally adventurous and light-hearted appeal. Like most bad Aquabat songs, the lyrics and vocals really bring this song down–when the MCBC takes things too far, he really takes it too far.