Wacoworld

Waco Brothers

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 1999)
• Original Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bloodshot Records
• ASIN: B00000I4FK
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #225,715 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Country as played by punks--an idea whose time has come. With their fourth album, the Waco Brothers mellow out just a little, and the result is like smooth whiskey. Songs like "The Hand That Throws the Bottle Down" and "Broken Down Row" carry one all the way through depression and out the other side. --Genevieve Williams

Amazon.com
Waco World is more of the reverb-filled, punkified skronky-tonk for which Welsh-born frontman Jon(boy) Langford has become known, through solo gigs, through the beloved 20-year-standing Mekons, and most recently with the cowpunk of Chicago's Wacos. Yet where the Wacos' previous outings have consistently sounded the way a post-bike-wreck, blood-and-gravel knee feels, Waco World adds salve to the sting, blow to the burn. The surprisingly restrained splendor of "Broken Down Row" contrasts with the accustomed machismo strut of "Good for Me." The fellas still have their bite, made alternately soft and sharp--and ultimately sexier--by a wide, whirling guitar-pop streak, an array of guest players (adding sax to trumpet to accordion to fiddle to washboard), volume and tempo variations, and fairly shushed Brit-pop vocals. Altogether, Waco World goes down easy and packs a wallop, without the hangover. --Paige La Grone

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE WACO EXPRESS IS BACK IN TOWN!, April 29, 1999

By A Customer

Ex-Mekon Jon Langford and his band of Waco Brothers are back in the saddle with the new barn burner 'Waco World'.

Hang on to your boots and lock up your daughters when these guys come to town with this new batch of songs. This stuff is tequilla powered insurgent country with a biting lyrical edge.

Songs like 'Pigsville', 'Day Of The Dead' and 'Corrupted' are more Langford classics, and Deano throws in a house shaker with 'Red Brick Wall'.

See these guys on tour, and get it while it's hot!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic Country Music, December 25, 1999

By	Diego Banducci (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This is the kind of country music that came out of Texas and Oklahoma in the good old days, before the C&W crowd realized that they could make a lot more money producing elevator music. I came across it on the list of 100 disks recommended by the amazon critics, took a chance, and ended up a winner. Great music for ruminating over the unfairness of life while sipping on bourbon and branch.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not their best, April 12, 2000

By	Ned Rinalducci (Savannah, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews

While I consider myself a big fan of the Waco Brothers, this latest offering from Chicago's country punk icons lacks the energy of their previous efforts. If you're looking for the best Jon Langford and his brethren have to offer look to "To The Last Dead Cowboy" or "Cowboy In Flames." Those discs have a key ingredient that "Waco World lacks," fun. This disc of mostly mid-tempo songs will be a disappointment to those turned on to the bands high-octane style exhibited in their previous efforts. I don't want to give the impression that this is not a good disc; on its own it is a solid set of songs. However, in comparison to their previous three recordings, it falls somewhat flat.