Customer Reviews

In the Night

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Not only is this album fun, but it's by chicks (which makes it rock even harder!) I was never too much of a White Zombie fan, but this album was not what I expected! Famous monsters rock in the night and in the day!

Oh man, do yourself a big favor and get this CD right this instant. Trust me on this one, America. You need to have this bad baby. So good it is painfull -- "Ouch!" Devil Doll, She-Zilla and Vampire Girl have got IT and with plenty to spare.

Yay to this album. If you like surf guitar or rockabilly, just order the album already and stop dreaming about cows. Sean Ysuelt of White Zombie fame proves that she can dress up as a devil once and for all. I especially liked the screaming at the beginning of track 2, In the Night.

White Zombie bassist Sean Yseult has resurrected from the undead as "Devil Doll", lead guitarist for the all-girl band Famous Monsters. One look at the cover for their new album "In the Night!!!" told me this was not going to be another WZ record -- and good for them! High reverb, low tech. There are more "vocal interjections" on this collection than there is singing, which gives the band a unique style that I like. I don't own a lot of surf or rockabilly cd's, and I don't give anything 5 stars unless I'm still playing it 5 years later, but I can see playing this one as much as my Dick Dale and Cramps albums -- which is all the time!

I'm listening to this album for the first time in years. Theoretically I should love this because (a) It's surf rock played by girls, (b)They dress like monsters and (c) They cover Cheap Trick, but sadly it's mostly cornball. Some nice little Man or Astroman style instrumentals are ruined by the "Woo-Hoos" and "Yeah Babys" they shout over top. Don't buy.

Say you're going to throw a horror movie themed cookout. It could happen. What are you going to play for music? Here's your answer. In The Night is far from a perfect album. Many of the songs are flat, it's about as corny as it gets and the musicianship is garage band all the way. But when it works, it works very well. On tracks like The Haunting of Planet Earth and Oui Monstre Oui, there's enough of a hook to hold your interest and the whole Surf/horror concept works quite well. If you're looking for SERIOUS music you're definitely looking in the wrong place. Go check out Tales from Topographic Oceans or A love Supreme. But if you're just looking for all out fun and have a thing for girls dressing up like rejects from a bad horror film- this will definitely hit the spot.

Even if you aren't a fan of surf music this album is the ultimate good time. And talk about a couple of babes who can rock! This album is highly listenable.

I loved this album. If you like rockabilly, surf guitar, etc. this album is for you. Especially cool is how much fun the band seems to be having with their music - take a look at the liner notes for a chuckle.

While Rob Zombie (before his delusions of being a cutting-edge horror movie producer) pulled the classic faux pas of thinking that he could be White Zombie without the rest of the band, Sean Yseult decided to do something ORIGINAL with her music career and enter the realm of crazy-cool chick-trio music. While Cake Like had the kitsch of Kerri Kenney's background on The State, and The 5, 6, 7, 8's have the stick of Quentin Tarantino at their back and the Japanese thing to boot (like Shonen Knife, but with more emphasis on retro-rock than food), Famous Monsters went to the realm of surf rock and its tributary, monster-movie shlock. Playing in the personas of Devil Doll (Yseult), She-Zilla (Carol Cutshall) and Vampire Girl (Brijitte West), the humor quickly becomes a little thin in songs like "Bloody Mary," where each band member declares her favorite drink (which do you think declared her favorite the title drink?), but there's enough oddities among the predictable stuff to keep this album interesting.

The playing? Oh no, it's not virtuoso stuff, but virtuosity is not the end-all, be-all of what makes music good (I cite The Ramones, and on the other end The Great Kat, who is an amazing musician, but durn boring to listen to). This is all very surf-oriented garage rock with a 50's-era horror movie feel (take THAT, Rob not-such-a-Zombie!). "Hairy Eyeball" is a masterpiece, and the opening 2 tracks definitely promise a lively spirit. The album as a whole doesn't live up to the energy completely, but the surprises that keep the stick from getting too old are the Cheap Trick cover ("Clock Strikes 10") and the cover from Groovie Ghoulies, just to make sure that we see the monster routine as a little childish and not necessarily out to be ground-breaking.

This band seemed to last for only two albums, which is a shame, since this album alone makes a far more creative effort that the rest of Rob Zombie's entire career, but this one is definitely worth having--at least for inclusion into a good file shuffle. A lot of potential booty-shaking going on here.

this is the result. and its very cool!

the songs sound like they come from really terrible 50's b horror movies and those beyond cheesy 60's exploitation films whick is of course what they were going for.

i still can't help thinking about the misfits everytime i listen to this band(famous monsters is also a fits album F is For Fiend has the misfits written all over it).

good stuff, if they got together with the fits the results would destroy the world.