“Music Is Crap” by Custard

Custard pulled "Music Is Crap" off their fourth album, We Have the Technology, in 1997 as its third single, and the voice on it isn't frontman David McCormack's. It belonged to drummer Glenn Thompson, who wrote and sang it and, by McCormack's account, already had it when he joined, having played it around Brisbane in a band that kept changing its name: Adults Today, Adolf Today, Control Group.

Thompson has explained it as a joke about arty navel-gazing, trashing your own chosen art form while loving every minute of it, which struck him as a thoroughly punk move. Eric Drew Feldman produced and Tom Doty mixed. It reached 73 on the ARIA singles chart and is often credited with getting people interested in Custard again; the Sydney Morning Herald's Craig Mathieson rated it among the best of Thompson's sweet tunes with a sting in them.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.