Customer Reviews

Cocked & Loaded

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I'm not sure why this is called "Revolting Cocks", but just another collaboration with various lead singers - Gibby Haynes, Jello Biafra, Phil Owen and Stevie Banch; but the album is fantastic. Again, I don't really look at it like a Revolting Cocks album, but some of the songs fit pretty well into their older catalogue: Revcolution Medley, Ten Million Ways to Die, Jack in the Crack, Viagra Culture and Revolting Cock Au Lait; the latter of which is reminiscent of the song Linger Ficken Good, but a little harder edged.

I only hope that Revco does a proper set when they open up for Ministry this Spring.

This is a rather rough release that took awhile to grab me. However, eventually the eclectic compilation of musucians, with their obscene lyrics, catchy riffs, and scathing vocals grabbed me.

This is nothing like previous Revolting Cock albums, as the sense of humor associated with this group has turned somewhat darker. The lineup is also almost entirely different.

Somehow, it all meshes together, as this Al-centric project puts together one of my favorite albums from 2006. Songs that I couldn't even listen all the way through at first, have suddenly become some of my favorites off the album (Jack in the Crack, Pole Grinder). Other songs, like Fire Engine, Revolting Cock Au Lait, and Purple Head were winners from the start.

Don't expect Big Sexy Land or Beers, Steers, and Queers, and keep an open mind if you pick this one up.

Here is REVCO back and taking no prisoners. Uncle Al is back with a beefed up line up featuring Gibby Hanes, Rick Nielson, Jello Biafra and Phildo Owen. Part sass, part tribute, part insanity mixed with moonshine likker. If you can't get down to this baby, you are just a nu-metal p*ssy. Viva the COCK!

Stand out track: Calientie (A reworded version of Dark Entries by Bauhaus!)

Officially, I am giving it 3.5 stars. I have to say right off the bat, the music is good, but it's not RevCo. Alien Jourgensen should have released this as Acid Horse, PTP, 1000 Homo DJ's, Pailhead...anything but RevCo. The Revolting Cocks were the ONLY side project he was involved in that remained a separate entity from Ministry, with members of Industrial grandfathers Front 242 and others like them came together and released a crazy, drug-induced, industrial album with drum machines, warped, simple dance grooves and usually some deranged rantings from Chris Connelly or Luc Van Acker...THIS new release includes none of that.

First of all, I opened up the CD digi-pack to see that Al is now joined by Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) and Jelo Biafra (Dead Kennedys and Lard). Right there, I should have known this wasn't going to be RevCo. Joined by Phildo Owen (Skate Nigs), Stevie Banch (Spyder Baby) and Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, these guys released a CD full of songs that probably chronicle a weekend in the studio with some old friends, a sheet of acid, a cooler full of liquor and a sack full of pills, weed, lighters and pipes. None of the songs really sound like any time was put into perfecting them. Instead, I picture them, along with drummer Mark Baker, partying and jamming, and...oh yeah...pressing "record" on the 4-track and the computer.

I have a problem, as one of the other reviewers mentioned, with using the monicker "Revolting Cocks." This is more Ministry-oriented music. It;s almost like they took a page out of Martin Atkins' book, and put together a Pigface project...I'm telling you--throughout this CD I kept thinking of Pigface. Different musicains on each song...some songs crazy, some joke around...some hit you in the face, and some are just boring. Songs so different, you can which guy wrote what. I have to say--Jelo's songs pull my rating down on this one. His songs are the weak links, with "Viagra Culture" being the worst. Good lyrics to begin the song, but the music and chorus are SO bad. Ugh. Gibby's songs "RevCo Medley" and "...Au Lait" are typical Butthole Surfer-sounding tunes. Take a classic rock song, turn up the distortion, and let Gibby screech out some crazy Texas jibberish. The real winners on this CD: "Devil Cock," "Jack In The Crack" and "Dead End Streets." Stevie Banch has his prints all over these, with Jelo collaborating on Dead End. These are dark, eerie, industrialized metal songs.

If you're a RevCo fan from the 80's, don't expect to like this one. In fact, you'll probably hate it. It's for people who love Ministry, Lard, Pigface and Butthole Surfers.

IN MY OPINION, THIS WAS RELEASED JUST TO BEEF UP THE LINE-UP ON AL'S NEW RECORD LABEL AND WEBSITE, "13TH PLANET" AND TO PULL EVERYONE OUT OF THE WOODWORK TO BUY A TICKET FOR HIS UPCOMING "MASTURBA-TOUR"...MINISTRY & REVCO...It's a decent CD anyway, though.

Not sure if anyone else has revcolution medley, but it's a GOOD song.

10 million ways to die, also a good tune (could probably do without the harder speed metal-ish parts (chorus?).

Caliente and Prune Tang were available elsewhere if you knew where to look, and are good songs.

I had some issue with it being called Revolting Cocks; without Paul Barker, Chris Connelly, Bill Reiflin, Luc van Acker.. et al. But, when I think that Revco (and ministry and lard and ....) are Just parts of Al Jourgenson's head, and they can be whatever he wants them to be, I overcome my issues.

All in all, a good CD. Not Beers, Steers and Queers, but it's up there. In the Revco library, I'd rank it above Big Sexyland, but below Linger Ficken Good.

After about 13 years Rev Co finally put a new cd out ! And its not bad.Interesting new members,like Rick Neilson (Cheap Trick) and Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top),and some other "new" faces. Too bad Paul Barker didnt come bad but oh well. Not as good as The Beers cd but its still very cool !!!!!!

I consider this along the lines of a mere Minstry side project than a proper Cocks album. It's more in tune with the thrashy electro-metal of the former than the overdriven pulsating synth-heavy grinding electronic beats of the latter. Only here the metal is pushed way past eleven for distortion's sake.

The opening rhythm riff from Queen's "We Are The Champions" kicks off the album with Gibby Haynes's snarling vocal punching it into place. It's a nice way to kick off the album. But the Hendrix-inspired "RevColution Medley" just drags on and on. In fact the album is bookended by this and another extended version of the same track.

Two other tracks following which feature Haynes, "Ten Million Ways To Die" and "Calienté (Dark Entries)" follows. The former features Haynes's vocal dropped down to a low funky take sounding like Barry White while the latter is just a speedy cover. It's here that the album begins to get into a very good groove.

"Prune Tang" is a nice slice of speedy sleaze featuring Grandpa Al on vocals. It's certainly not a song about prune-flavored powdered breakfast drink. "Fire Engine", featuring Stevie Banch on vocals, could be a dedication to firefighting or something else entirely.

"Dead End Streets" is more speedy riffage with Jello Biafra on vocals. If there was a true fusion of punk and metal this is the track that serves as a primary example. Even I went, "Kennedys who?" I may have to check out "Lard" which is a mighty fine long-time collaboration between Jello and Uncle Al.

"Pole Grinder" is a nice grinding tracks which is a full-on love note to strippers. Or, in this case, a possibly transexual one. While this track is quite good it's elevated to a whole new level on the "Cocktail Mixxx" remix album.

Then the album makes a couple more missteps with "Jack in the Crack" and "Devil Cock". These two tracks did nothing for me and seemed to go nowhere.

"Viagra Culture" takes the eloquence of Jello Biafra's spoken word performances and provides a soundtrack to it. It's a throbbing critique of the excesses of United States' society pathological need to win...but at what cost?

Finally, there's the album closer: "Revolting Cock Au Lait". It's essentially the same as "RevColution Medley" (the first part is largely unchanged) but then instead of the fadeout on the original it adds an homage to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in The Wall: Part 2" and an extended sequence with an extra ending that features the vocal performance work of Lady Dragon. This track could've done away with the first part and just faded into the Floyd to serve as a much better bookend.

In the end it's a RevCo album in name only. It bears zero resemblance to any of RevCo's previous work. It's not a bad album but could have been much better if the individual contributors stuck to a single vision. This album goes a lot of places and occasionally runs into dead ends.

i love all of the revolting cocks albums, i wish there were more, i would buy them all. if you like ministry or pigface you will most likely dig this album. driving guitars, amazing drumming, and crazy lyrics performed by the most rambunctious bunch of musicians around. what more could you want?

One of industrial metal's most influential figures, Al Jourgensen, has returned with his most successful side project, Revolting C - cks. RevCo are definitely less intense, extreme, and fast than Ministry, but, like all discs with Jourgensen's name on it, this band is just as weird. In fact, "Cocked And Loaded" is probably best listened to when stoned. The music is pretty trippy, and the lyrics (which feature lines like "being a man or woman has nothing to do with genitalia") are downright odd.

Despite having a couple of boring parts (see "Jack In The Crack"), this is a good industrial album (definitely one of the best of 2006 so far), and all Jourgensen fans should eat it up.

The first song is "Fire Engine," which ties a wah-wah guitar lick with a catchy, stomping, stop-start rhythm (a la the beat from "We Will Rock You"). This song also features some (slightly altered) lyrics from Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Track two, "Ten Million Ways To Die," has ominous spoken word vocals, as well has music that could be from a bad porno movie.

Other highlights include the fast, lurching riffs and guitar solo on "Prune Tang;" the catchy "Dead End Street," which combines very noisy, squealing guitars with a rhythmic hand-clap pattern and drum beat, and the riff-heavy, very Ministry-esque sixth track, "Pole Grinder."

"Cocked And Loaded" may have been released 13 years after RevCo's last album, but almost any fan would tell you it was worth the wait. It makes for quite a fine listen, and, if nothing else, this disc serves as a nice snack until the new Ministry album drops in May.

I've always been a RevCo fan and was really looking forward to this after their long absence from the music scene. And I was sadly disappointed in a lot of the record. Granted, the songs that Stevie Banch (of Spyder Baby) wrote and sang were the redeeming quality of this entire disc. If it hadn't been for him, I would have rated this much lower.

So, if you're a Spyder Baby fan, a die hard RevCo or Ministry fan . . . or even a fan of Pailhead, Acid Horse or 1000 Homo DJs fan, then definately check this out. Otherwise, skip it.