Holy Roller

Reverend Horton Heat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sub Pop
• ASIN: B00000IAG2
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,634 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #15 in Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative > Psychobilly
  • #26 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Oldies & Retro

Track Listings

1. Big Sky

2. Baddest Of The Bad

3. Wiggle Stick

4. Big Red Rocket Of Love

5. Bales Of Cocaine

6. Bath-Water Blues

7. Lie Detector

8. 400 Bucks

9. Marijuana

10. It's Martini Time

11. Baby I'm Drunk

12. Where In The Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush?

13. Bad Reputation

14. One Time For Me

15. Now, Right Now

16. Slow

17. Love Whip

18. Jimbo Song

19. Big Little Baby

20. Cowboy Love

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: REVEREND HORTON HEAT
Title: HOLY ROLLER
Street Release Date: 04/20/1999
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top Five Album!, May 6, 2004

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Scott Schiefelbein (Portland, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holy Roller (Audio CD)

If you're looking to build a music collection and have a limited budget that forces you to look at compilation CDs, "Holy Roller" is an absolute must. Nothing beats thrashing, wall-banging rockabilly for your entertainment buck, and "Holy Roller," with its 24 tracks, is a great capsule summary of one of the genre's defining bands.

Spanning from "Smoke 'Em if You Got 'Em" to "Space Heater," "Holly Roller" covers the glory year of the Rev. Not content with raging guitars and a frantic beat, the Rev. also throws out some of the most irreverent, hilarious lyrics around. "Big Red Rocket of Love," "Bad Reputation," "Big Little Baby," "Now, Right Now," and others are high-octane rockabilly.

The Rev. gets a little more humorous with "Bales of Cocaine," "Cowboy Love," and "Eat Steak" -- sure to drive any vegetarian to distraction. "Where in the Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush" is musical and comic genius.

Clocking in at well over an hour, the 24 tracks are a true compilation . . . none of those wimpy ten-track greatest hits albums for the Rev! Again, if you can't get the entire CD catalog of the Rev, this is the way to go.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected Surprise, April 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Holy Roller (Audio CD)

I didn't realize this was a compilation when I ordered it (Subtract a star from Amazon). On the CD it says there's two previously unreleased songs, but in actuality there is three. At this point I'd still give it four stars because it is mostly old songs, but they did pick the absolute best of the Rev. If I were to start buying his CDs all over again, and if I weren't such a fanatic, I could buy this one CD and hear all my favorites. (Still at four stars though, until now). If there was only one song on this CD, looped for 60 minutes, "Where in the hell did you go with my toothbrush", the whole CD would still be worth 20 bucks! This additional unreleased song is absolutely FANTASTIC!!! I'm not kidding, this song sums up the whole being of the Rev. I received the CD last night and I've listened to this track ten times already! I've cried, laughed, danced, and "sang". I can never seem to hear enough of this band. (I think it's Mazda that has one of his songs in their commercial, so it doesn't seem like I'm the only one who loves the music.)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars See you in church!, April 21, 2004

By 

James R. Mckinley (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holy Roller (Audio CD)

If you believe in the evangelical power of rock then this is for you: a howling celebration of self-knowing musical stupidity
for those heavy, heavy drinking sessions. HOLY ROLLER is a fantastic 24-track retrospective that neatly encapsulates the Rev's career-from 1991's SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM to 1998's SPACE HEATER.

As is usually the case with this sort of compilation, themes emerge. The Reverend seems to be preoccupied with the positive effects of inebriation. Such tunes as "Bales Of Cocaine," "Marijuana," "It's Martini Time," "Baby I'm Drunk," and "Eat Steak" glorify excess with tongue planted firmly in snuff-filled cheek. It's difficult to think that a man who'll write a song called "Where In The Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush?" isn't kidding. The songs are in the classic rockabilly format of guitar, slap bass, and drums, but the trio's fiery, noisy playing blows apart any notion of polite revivalism.