DRIVE CHOIR – Close Your Eyes / LaLaLa 7”

Maggot Records – Hialeah (1993)

Johnny Voltage – guitar, vocal

Carl “kiss my ass” Carvajal – bass, vocal

Jeff Fritz – drums, vocals, harmonica

First record by these Hialeah poppity punkers. Close Your Eyes is a nice up-tempo song – almost as good as King of the World from their second record. LaLaLa is also up-tempo pop-punk, unfortunately having a chorus of LaLaLa – but it features some bitchin guitar. Nice idea for a punk rock car on the cover. After the two 7” singles, Drive Choir released a full-length CD disguised as another 7” single and then disappeared.

DRIVE CHOIR – King of the World / The Box 7”

Esync Records / Maggot Records– Hialeah (1993)

Johnny Voltage – guitar, vocals
Jeff Fritz – drums, vocals
Carl Carvajal – bass, vocals

Second release from Hialeah’s Drive Choir. King of the World is a fast, catchy as hell power-pop-punk song – think Buzzcocks – all about being king of the world and standing on a pedestal. The Box is a winner too – not as easy to categorize, with occasional weird fruity background vocals. Heironymous Bosch did the cover art for them – not sure if he did the porker on the back cover too. Well produced by Rat Bastard and two other dudes. Kinda strange to hear something this upbeat and cheery from Hialeah.