The Bees: “Chicken Payback” (2004)
The Move, the Kinks, Small Faces, and even the Delfonics and Syd Barrett-era Floyd all seem to be points of reference for the Bees (formerly Band of Bees) on their Free the Bees LP, which takes its listener on a kaleidoscopic tour of sixties rock and pop. This is a band that time forgot.
“Chicken Payback” sounds like someone randomly rearranged the lyrics of those 60’s dance-craze-of-the-month songs (“The Payback”, “Camel Walk”, “Mickey’s Monkey”, “Funky Chicken”, “Donkey Walk”) perhaps with Austin Powers sitting in as executive producer.
