Otis

Mojo Nixon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 7, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000008IZH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #736,977 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Psychobilly strikes again!, October 20, 2005

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freak, punk, geek (Detroit, MI, USA, World, Universe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Otis (Audio CD)

My dad bought this album on tape some time right around when I was born. I was raised on this album. When my parents got divorced, my dad would listen to this with us in his little green S-truck after he picked us up from Ma. This is chock-full of memories.

So I always loved the first cut, "Destroy All Lawyers". When I decided to find the tape again in my garage, it having been lost for about five years, it was 'Wanna see em explode in every zip code' that egged me on. I remembered that.

My brother, four years younger, always loved "I Wanna Race Bigfoot Trucks". It's basically a song about a racing-obsessed dude that got his high school diploma at age 24. Very good lyrics, and very valid considering the NASCAR fan stereotype.

"Ain't High Falutin". I have these lyrics posted on my wall. 'Don't like me the way I am/Go suck some Spam!' Words I live by. Includes cracks at Depeche Mode.

I knew all the lyrics to "Shane's Dentist" before I even found the tape again. It's the simplest song on the album and the most effective. Sounds like the burnouts up at Charlie's before the auto show.

"Rabies Baby" is the standard song about a 'teenage virgin waitress' with rabies. Could also be a werewolf, I don't quite have that figured out yet.

The first side ends with "Put A Sex Mo-Sheen In The White House". I finally get this song. First years of my life, not so much. But now I get it. Listen and find out.

Side Two starts with "Star Spangled Mojo", the Mojo Nixon version of the national anthem. Some people remember Jimi Hendrix doing the national anthem, but I remember Mojo Nixon's total braying vocals butchering it.

"You Can Dress Em Up But You Can't Take Em Out" is probably one of my favorite songs on the whole thing. 'Got one pair of pants that are alive, been wearin that shirt since nineteen sixty-five... Fartin in restaraunts, burpin in the movies/Ain't took a bath since people said groovy'. Basically talks about the people you just can't take out anywear cuz they don't act right.

"Don Henley Must Die" started the whole Mojo Nixon thing in my family. 'Put a sharp stick in his eye'. I don't like the Eagles.

I don't understand "Perry Mason Of Love" and my dad's futile attempts to explain who the hell Perry Mason is were well, futile.

"Took Out The Trash And Never Came Back", complete with taking out the trash sound effects, is a master work. The lyrics are wonderfully crafted.

'Like a flamin baton that's ready to twirl, like George Bush on acid singin the Duke Of Earl...' "Gonna Be A New World" finishes off the side and album, giving new hope to those of us that write songs with the word 'gonna' or 'wanna' in the title. And lyrics apply again because George W Bush is in the White House.

Piercing, biting delivery. Funny, cowpunk, psychobilly album. You'll laugh just about as much as you listen. Mojo may seem stupid, but really isn't. Widely appealing music that strikes a good chord with everybody.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Prophetic Iconoclast, May 11, 2005

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M. Burris (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Otis (Audio CD)

Somebody made me a tape of this album in the early 90's and I really enjoyed listening to it. I can't remember all the songs on the disc, but the few more memorable ones were: "Destroy All Lawyers" ("Bunch of Hornswagglers, treat us like fools"), the eerily prophetic "Put a Sex Mo-Sheen in the White House" (How did he know Clinton would win?), and of course the ever-popular "Don Henley Must Die."

For fans of good old in-your-face iconoclastic rock that doesn't take itself too seriously, this will fill the bill.