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Join Jed, Josip, and Quintin as they crack a few tinnies with some of your favourite Aussie acts and talk about everything to do with music, playing shows, and life on the road.
Brisbane’s hardest-partying pub punks DAD FIGHT return with their fiery fourth single I Can’t See Straight, an ode to a night of intoxication and subsequently being stranded in The Valley with no money to pay for a cab home.
The way I usually describe how DAD FIGHT sound to people is like a bar room brawl between The Chats, Private Function and Clowns with Cosmic Psychos presiding over the fight to make sure there are no hits below the belt. With their ever-irreverent attitudes and raucous, hardcore-edged take on pub punk, DAD FIGHT are definitely not here to fuck spiders. Their songs hit harder than a bikie clubbing someone in the back of the head in a Clubs NSW pokies room and ICan’t See Straight is no exception.
The songs starts out with a few cries of drunken revelry before launching right into the thick of it. Their frontman, the pseudonymous Buddy delivers one of his trademark bellows and then regales us with a tale of reckless inebriation and the ensuing consequences of spending all your money. With five bucks and sixty cents left in his pocket, he unsuccessfully attempts to sneak into a cab with a bunch of dodgy looking blokes and is subsequently expelled out onto the concrete for his efforts.
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With the sky rapidly reddening above him, he asks as a random passer-by for the time and finds that it’s actually six AM. While the situation is grim, he swiftly decides that he might as well stay out until the pubs open again and parks himself up outside a café as members of respectable society pass him by. Despite the results of his misbehaviour however, Buddy is far from regretful or apologetic about the night’s misconduct. He proudly proclaims that he’s been like this since 1996 and that feeling shitty is when he’s most a home before launching into the final chorus.
Speaking of the chorus, it’s fucking genius:
I can’t see straight and now I've lost my phone. What do you mean mate, why won’t you take me home?! I can’t see straight and now I’m all alone. Give me a lift mate, I just want to get home!
I don’t know how they managed to make going off at a cab driver for not giving you a lift while off your head A. rhyme and B. outright anthemic, but they’ve done it somehow. Loud, raw, and relentless, I Can’t See Straight combines hoarse and frenzied vocals, thundering drums, raucous guitar riffs and a hammering bass line to create an absolutely incendiary track. The song has a relentless energy that never lets up, even during the comparatively quieter bridge.
In the background throughout much of the song are random bits of drunken chatter and shouting which lends some excellent colour and reminds me of all the chatter in The Kids Will Know Its Bullshit. Fully conveying the frenetic desperation of trying to get back to home when you’re down to your last dollar, I Can’t See Straight is sure to become a fan favourite.
Give the song a listen below and help the band get their next royalty cheque so they can feed it into the pokies:
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