Pizza Deliverance [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Drive-By Truckers

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 11, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Soul Dump
• ASIN: B00004X0ME
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #421,609 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bulldozers and Dirt

2. Nine Bullets

3. Uncle Frank

4. Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)

5. Box of Spiders

6. One of These Days

7. Margo and Harold

8. Company I Keep

9. President's Penis Is Missing

10. Tales Facing Up

11. Love Like This

12. Mrs. Dubose

13. Zoloft

14. Night G.G. Allin Came to Town

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

To call the Drive-By Truckers an alt-country band is a disservice--to the Truckers and their Buzzcocks-meet-the-Outlaws brand of punk-rock twang, as well as to most alt-country bands, which hardly belong in the same county as DBT, let alone borrowing the same genre. This remastered re-release of the Alabama foursome’s 1999 sophomore record picks up where its debut album Gangstabilly (also re-issued by New West Records) left off--fruitful storyteller Patterson Hood and his cotton-drawl vocals bobbing and weaving through the trepidations and peculiarities of his life in the Deep South. The Truckers abstain from some of the white-trash bulls-eyes and volume 11 blasters on their debut for a 14-song hootenanny about riding bulldozers in red clay, a reclusive uncle, giving up sex for the Lord, and a Memphis performance by the late shock-rocker G.G. Allin. The bluesy sing-a-long "Nine Bullets" features one round of lead for each of Hood’s adversaries, but two songs later he harmoniously reminisces his great-grandmother in "Box of Spiders." It’s a remarkable divergence that drives Pizza Deliverance and sets the table for the Southern Rock Opera that comes next. - Scott Holter --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Product Description

Re-issue of the long out of print CD by the Drive-By Truckers. Re-mastered with up-dated linner notes from Patterson Hood. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't...stop...listening!, November 3, 2001

By	William Fare (Cedar Rapids, IA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Drive-By Truckers stand out in the current crop of indie rockers...they don't play whiny college rock and they don't fuse hip-hop and metal as current fashion dictates. They are throwbacks to the dinosaur rock of the 70's, yet their lyrics are far more inventive and meaningful than those that came before them.

Pizza Deliverance is a great way to get to know the Truckers. Live staples like "Bulldozers and Dirt" and "Uncle Frank" are here but it's a few of the lesser-known tracks that stand out for me. "Love Like This" is the coolest Southern Rock/ballad ever written (sung by guitarist Mike Cooley, who you don't get to hear often enough) with its tales of abuse and codependancy. "The Night GG Allin Came To Town" made me laugh the first time I heard it, but it's the portrayal of Southern boredom ("might as well drink until we pass out again") that stays with you after the more obvious lines roll by. And "The Company I Keep" is the track that makes this officially a drinkin' record. "Sometimes I'm so high that I'm scared to go to sleep/ Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep," it's a reminder that sometimes you turn into the one that your mother warned you about.

For lovers of heavy music, you can't go wrong with the Truckers. Don't let the Southern rock descriptions turn you off if you're wincing and imagining .38 Special rockin' out with Black Oak Arkansas. These guys are like Crazy Horse...heavy as hell and intelligent to boot. If they don't get their due it's a sin.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The phantom before the, February 21, 2002

By	Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I purchased "Pizza Deliverance" after buying Drive By Truckers' INCREDIBLE 2001 album "Southern Rock Opera". I'm here to report that "Opera" represents a quantum leap forweard from where DBT was previously, at least based on this album.

As implied by the title, "Pizza Deliverance" is a wiseass recording that makes fun of the south in a way that only true southerners could. Songs like "Bulldozers and Dirt" and "Nine Bullets" tell tales of down-and-out trailer trash types and the follies they get into. Unfortunately, the members of the band are far too intelligent and creative to play dumb over an entire disc. In the end, "Pizza Deliverance" is a decent effort that would have been more effective had it been just a tad less smart-alecky.

I would recommend it, but "Southern Rock Opera" is by far the better album. In fact, it may have been the best rock album of the year.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Alt-country from Alabama, October 26, 1999

By	Kevin Lomas (Grayslake, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pizza Deliverance (Audio CD)

The music they perform sort of a mixture of Uncle Tupelo, Bottle Rockets and other energetic country bands. Don't be driven away by the cartoonish cover and their choice of song titles for behind all of that is real quality and a sincere appreciation for music. It is their fine musicianship and an intelligent song writing that stands out from so many bland "middle-of-the-road" Alt-country bands out today. Plus, their live shows are louder than hell and they never take breaks (except for PBR).