FOR POP CULTURE KIDS the Doormats, it's all about Star Wars and bad '70s television. Opening salvo "The Wars" is a surfy punk rock rendering of the Imperial march. Other similarly themed songs include "Uncle Owen" and "Admiral Akbar Eyes." In "Burt and Loni," singer-guitarists J.C. O'Donnell and Mike Schmitt sing, "I guess Burt ain't so smart / For letting it fall apart / Now he's lonely / Bald and homely / Bankrupt from alimony." Their chuckleheaded lyrics and deft pop-punk style seem inspired by the Canadian gods of tongue-in-cheek hesherism Chixdiggit. The epic opening of "Dipspit" (actually the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind) leads into a minute or two of a questionably original tune. Its coda quotes "Sunshine of Your Love." They use Heil talk boxes and wahwah pedals on "Ron Vargas East Coast 1/95" and "SWAT" to emulate the sound of adultspeak in Peanuts cartoons and Peter Frampton passages, respectively. At least you'll always recognize a song or two at a Doormats show. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.