Excellent. I'm going to hear four of my favorite songs! What if they play my four all-time favorites? I doubt that the Exit are going to fit Gershwin's epic "Rhapsody in Blue" on an EP, but they did promise favorites. Hmm, what are my other favorites? "A Boy Named Sue?" "Good Vibrations?" "Tangled Up in Blue?" "The Walrus?" "Drive My Car?" "Cruisin'?" "You Can't Always Get What You Want?" "Wave of Mutilation?" "Summer Babe?" Which favorites will the Exit play? I'm dying to find out!

Hey, this isn't my favorite song. It's some phlegmatic egghead named Benjamin Brewer grunting political angst such as, "The glass ceiling on the social wellbeing has left its mark on our plutocracy," accompanied by slow, static, reggae-flavored rock. It's decidedly sub-Sublime. "Do You Think It's Alright?"-- that's the name of the song-- is sung a couple of times mid-track, so it must be the chorus. This is definitely not one of my favorites.

Likewise, "The Luckiest Man." The phlegmy guy still sounds as weakly pissed as he did singing about the plutocracy even though he's singing about some pretty girl he hooked up with. At least the guitarist knows it's a love song; he plays an utterly trite acoustic guitar solo, the signal of romance. Hey, if it's a romantic song, could it be "Good Vibrations?" No.

It's sad when everything sounds the same three songs in, especially on an EP. "Susan" empathizes with a girl whose reputation is sullied by a local lothario. It's an interesting subject, but Phlegmy spends the second half of the song playing head games as to whether the track is complete fiction or about his sister. Doesn't really matter in the long run, though. Even if he'd predetermined this, it wouldn't have changed the fact that it's not one of my favorites.

There's not much to say about the sound of Sing Four Favorites. The vocals are mixed very high, and the band coasts along weakly on the same rhythm each time. The requisite number of ska upstrokes are hit, and then the guys punch the clock and go home.

Of course, an EP from a politically disheveled "post-ska" band wouldn't be complete without railing against the music industry. Brewer apologizes to the big stars and record executives because he thinks he's going to replace them. And like the song says, "It's Gonna Sell." No, it's not.

-Dan Kilian