Boiled Alive

Dash Rip Rock | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mammoth
• ASIN: B000004AUG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,630 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original 1991 Mammoth Records release. Catalog MR0027-2. There is a punch hole through the top left corner of the booklet.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hotter than Satan's Own Sauce Piquante!, September 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Boiled Alive (Audio CD)

This CD changed my life! Back in the late '80s, I was content to listen passively to jangly REM and mopey Smiths tunes... that is, until I bought myself a copy of BOILED ALIVE! This record resurrects the spirit of Hank Williams, Howlin'Wolf (he's dead, isn't he?), Johnny Ace, Jimi Hendrix and Sid Vicious all at once. From the opening "BUUUUURP" of the band on the live mic to the last kerrang of Bill Davis' mighty axe, this CD rocks you like a class 5 hurricane. You can't help but bang your head to the Williams classic "Jambalaya" --wait a minute-- bang your head? Sure. And what of the raunchy cover of the schmaltzy Helen Reddy tome "Delta Dawn"? Quite simply the definitive version, I say. So, if you're a young'un, a-listenin' to your Oasis and your Backstreet Boys, and you feel like you oughta pay homage to the rock and roll messiahs, flip this disc onto your digital doodad and get yourself BOILED ALIVE!

4.0 out of 5 stars Better live than in-studio, December 28, 2005

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Wanda4Nick8 (Fredneck, Merlin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boiled Alive (Audio CD)

I've had this album since the early-'90's when I began to explore the indie-label scene which was exploding with a wealth of undiscovered greatness at the time in labels such as Matador, Sub-Pop, K-Records, SST, Twin-Tone, Drag City and this band's label, Mammoth, which featured Deep-South Grain-Belt and Rust-Belt talents such as Antenna, Blake Babies, black girls and Vanilla Trainwreck, among others. I first found out about DRR during an MTV Week-In-Rock segment dating back to sometime late in 1989 or into 1990 focusing on them and other fringe oddities such as a Latin Elvis-impersonator "El-vez", and a pre-teen punk band named Old Skull. I liked what I saw about DRR and kept a mental note about them until I came across them in a Camelot Record store a year or so later. It was this disc "Boiled Alive", a live album which I must say is far better than any of their studio efforts. A few years later I made the mistake of adding one of their studio albums "Ace Of Clubs" to my collection. I picked it up because I liked the tongue-in-cheek reference to Motorhead's Brit garage-metal opus "Ace Of Spades", but soon found out I bought a lemon of a record with uninspired lyrics and going-thru-the-motions musicianship. Some bands are great in the studio but not live, while others are stellar live but leave something to be desired with their studio material, and a small handful are great at both. I'm afraid that DRR fall into the catagory of great live act but an underacheiving studio band. Then again, "Ace Of Clubs" turned out to be the only studio album of DRR's I picked up, so I may have picked the wrong studio album of theirs to base my opinion of their studio material. Anyways, from the first track, which the vocalist ends by yelling "Thank You, G'Nite - G'Nite, Thank You!!" before gunning into the next track to the closing track, this a must-have album, live or otherwise, indie or otherwise for those of you revisiting on late '80's or early '90's indie-gems.

4.0 out of 5 stars Near Perfect Stupidity, October 26, 2005

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Blaine Parker (Park City, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boiled Alive (Audio CD)

What more is there to say, really? I'd never heard of these guys when I saw them at Jazz Fest a few years back. Good God. Talk about a full-bore commitment to punkabilly lunacy. There is nothing like Dash Rip Rock. And this live CD easily reflects the beauty of the band's genius. (Yes, it is genius. You can't possibly be this gloriously inane with such consistency without having brains behind it.) I've never heard any of DRR's studio material, and I'm afraid to. From the guilty pleasure of "Jambalya" to the rollicking ode to "white Lightning" to the sheer stupidity of "Save the Whales," go live and revel in the ridiculousness.