Everyone knows one: a spoiled whiner, a normal, relatively privileged kid who thinks the world is out to get him or, as Yoyodyne so snappily puts it on “Cakewalk”: “a complainer with nothing to complain about.” In a quick, catchy two minutes, Yoyodyne bassist/vocalist Emily Vidal packs moments of attitude, hope (”You could be anything”) and cute humor (”Money and frosting give me away”) into this track. When the male backing vocals kick in (”You could be something/ You could be nothing”), the song resembles what it might sound like if the Thermals were emulating Superchunk’s clunky, lo-fi bop-rock or the clever, winking girly pop of That Dog sometime in the mid-‘90s. There’s something, too, about Vidal that makes me think she might be the female version of Calvin Johnson. Can’t you just imagine Johnson’s lazy baritone belting out her words: “I’m sufferin’ now/ Let me count the way-ay-ays”?

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Yoyodyne plays tonight at Acme with the Crosswalks and Oh! Captain. 10 pm. $3. 21+.

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Photo: from the band’s MySpace.

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