- Category: Music » Punk » Psychobilly
- Format: CD Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
- Release Date: February 11, 2008
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Anagram
- UPC: 5013929806528
- WAPI (Tower ID): 111834370
- Average Customer Review: There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!
- Tower.com Sales Rank: #209849 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
- #3254 in Punk (See Top 100 Punk Bestsellers)
- #79 in Psychobilly (See Top 100 Psychobilly Bestsellers)
|
|
|
|
|
Product Description
Product noteOriginally released on Stiff Records in 1986. Title NoteOriginally released on Stiff Records in 1986. Album DescriptionOn its original 1986 release (one of the last LPs released on Stiff Records as the pioneering punk era label was shutting its doors), King Kurt's second album was officially untitled and most often referred to as "King Kurt's second album." To the band and its fervent fans, however, the album was always known as Big Cock, and the CD reissues restored that name (referring, of course, to the noble rooster towering majestically over the band on the album's cover) to its proper place. Keeping the crazed psychobilly of the band's early singles front and center but allowing different influences to creep into their sound, Big Cock is a more varied listen than 1984's Ooh Wallah Wallah: witness their respectful take on Eddie Cochran's "Nervous Breakdown" and the oddball jump blues of the first single "Billy." As one might expect from a British band for whom the term means something entirely different than the popular dance from the early-'60s North Carolina beach music scene, "Do the Shag" is a lascivious piece of grinding R&B, as is the downright funky "Momma Kurt" and the growling sax and big-band drums of the instrumental "The Bowland Fen Decoy" sounds pleasantly like one of Madness' mid-career album tracks. These variations on the band's previously established wild-eyed rockabilly and mildly scatological, alcohol-fueled lyrics make Big Cock a more consistently entertaining, less tiresome listen than their debut overall, although Pat Collier's booming, echoey production is a bit more beholden to the sound of 1986 than Dave Edmunds' drier work on the debut. Many of the CD reissues add several bonus tracks, including the non-LP single "Slammers" and its B-sides. ~ Stewart Mason If You Enjoy "Big Cock (Import) (CD)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Big Cock (Import) (CD)" by King Kurt (Artist)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Psychobilly Bestsellers
Punk Bestselling CDsExplore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
