Bring It On! by Machine Gun Fellatio

Bring It On!, the 2000 debut album from Sydney's Machine Gun Fellatio, landed on Mushroom Records, and the exclamation mark is doing honest work. The band had been pieced together in 1997 from two local outfits, Vrag and Limebunny, and came saddled with a name an early associate had pulled out of a philosophy exercise, one built to provoke outrage and usually shrunk to MGF in polite company.

Onstage they traded on provocation and gags, but the record shows real songwriters under the shtick, and AllMusic's Jody Macgregor reckoned their craft shines brighter here than anywhere else in their short catalog. Exhibit A is "Unsent Letter", a bittersweet love song he ranked with the finest pop any Australian band has made. Paging Mr. Strike came next, one of only three studio albums before they folded in 2005.

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