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Fast\nCustom\nArtist Direct Records\nMany albums can be teamed up with social events, such as watching "The Wizard of Oz" and listening to Dark Side of the Moon, or sitting around the bong with Bob Marley's Legend on. Add another to the list because New York native Custom (yep, one name) and his new album, Fast, is the perfect CD to listen to while enjoying a night of drinking.\nThe album starts off upbeat with its first couple of songs, just enough to put the listener in a happy mood. As it goes on, the album starts to get a little heavier and louder and ends up with a few songs that are just slow and depressing enough to make you pass out on your sofa. The good thing about this album is that you can stop at the fun, happy part and just listen to it over and over again if you want to skip the hangover.\nMany of the songs have the one-two combo of slow guitars and singing during the verses, but kicking in hard bass drum beats and distorted guitars during the uplifting choruses. The best song on the album is the single "Hey Mister." The song is a letter to the father of the lead singer's girlfriend telling him all about how crazy his daughter really is. "It's not what you did, it's not what you didn't, God gave her a perfect body now I'm all up in it," are sample lyrics of the secretive world that not too many fathers know about. He also tells the dad all about them being naked in the Volkswagen the father gave his daughter for graduation, all the food and alcohol he eats and drinks out of the dad's fridge and bar and the reason the phone bills are so high. The song ends with Custom singing the same lyrics over and over again, "I hope I never have a daughter."\nThe video is great as well, it can be seen on the Web site, and that's the only place you'll be seeing it since MTV banned it from being shown on TRL because of its raunchy material. If the channel could show Jordan Knight's "Give it to You," they should be able to show "Mister" because it's not any worse. Maybe if Custom had been a former member of New Kids on the Block they would have let it slide. \n

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