Revolting Cocks - Cocked & Loaded
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Free Music Review: Return of the Revolting Cocks
Hit: 4 Stars
I recommend this album if you are a fan of the Revolting Cocks or Al Jourgensen's other work. I'd rate this above Linger Ficken' Good but below the earlier stuff. The track listing on Amazon is not accurate. Actual listing with my own rankings:
1. Revcolution Medley - *****
2. Ten Million Ways To Die - *****
3. Caliente (Dark Entries) - ****
4. Prune Tang - ***
5. Fire Engine - *****
6. Dead End Streets - **1/2
7. Pole Grinder - ***
8. Jack In The Crack - ***
9. Devil Cock - ***
10. Viagra Culture - **
11. Revolting Cock Au Lait - ****
Free Music Review: THEY ARE BACK !
Hit: 4 Stars
After about 13 years Rev Co finally put a new cd out ! And its not bad.Interesting new members,like Rick Neilson (Cheap Trick) and Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top),and some other "new" faces. Too bad Paul Barker didnt come bad but oh well. Not as good as The Beers cd but its still very cool !!!!!!Free Music Review: More in line with Ministry than the old Cocks.
Hit: 3 Stars
I consider this along the lines of a mere Minstry side project than a proper Cocks album. It's more in tune with the thrashy electro-metal of the former than the overdriven pulsating synth-heavy grinding electronic beats of the latter. Only here the metal is pushed way past eleven for distortion's sake.
The opening rhythm riff from Queen's "We Are The Champions" kicks off the album with Gibby Haynes's snarling vocal punching it into place. It's a nice way to kick off the album. But the Hendrix-inspired "RevColution Medley" just drags on and on. In fact the album is bookended by this and another extended version of the same track.
Two other tracks following which feature Haynes, "Ten Million Ways To Die" and "Calienté (Dark Entries)" follows. The former features Haynes's vocal dropped down to a low funky take sounding like Barry White while the latter is just a speedy cover. It's here that the album begins to get into a very good groove.
"Prune Tang" is a nice slice of speedy sleaze featuring Grandpa Al on vocals. It's certainly not a song about prune-flavored powdered breakfast drink. "Fire Engine", featuring Stevie Banch on vocals, could be a dedication to firefighting or something else entirely.
"Dead End Streets" is more speedy riffage with Jello Biafra on vocals. If there was a true fusion of punk and metal this is the track that serves as a primary example. Even I went, "Kennedys who?" I may have to check out "Lard" which is a mighty fine long-time collaboration between Jello and Uncle Al.
"Pole Grinder" is a nice grinding tracks which is a full-on love note to strippers. Or, in this case, a possibly transexual one. While this track is quite good it's elevated to a whole new level on the "Cocktail Mixxx" remix album.
Then the album makes a couple more missteps with "Jack in the Crack" and "Devil Cock". These two tracks did nothing for me and seemed to go nowhere.
"Viagra Culture" takes the eloquence of Jello Biafra's spoken word performances and provides a soundtrack to it. It's a throbbing critique of the excesses of United States' society pathological need to win...but at what cost?
Finally, there's the album closer: "Revolting Cock Au Lait". It's essentially the same as "RevColution Medley" (the first part is largely unchanged) but then instead of the fadeout on the original it adds an homage to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in The Wall: Part 2" and an extended sequence with an extra ending that features the vocal performance work of Lady Dragon. This track could've done away with the first part and just faded into the Floyd to serve as a much better bookend.
In the end it's a RevCo album in name only. It bears zero resemblance to any of RevCo's previous work. It's not a bad album but could have been much better if the individual contributors stuck to a single vision. This album goes a lot of places and occasionally runs into dead ends.
Free Music Review: Another one of Al's crazy side projects comes back from the dead...
Hit: 3 Stars
Officially, I am giving it 3.5 stars. I have to say right off the bat, the music is good, but it's not RevCo. Alien Jourgensen should have released this as Acid Horse, PTP, 1000 Homo DJ's, Pailhead...anything but RevCo. The Revolting Cocks were the ONLY side project he was involved in that remained a separate entity from Ministry, with members of Industrial grandfathers Front 242 and others like them came together and released a crazy, drug-induced, industrial album with drum machines, warped, simple dance grooves and usually some deranged rantings from Chris Connelly or Luc Van Acker...THIS new release includes none of that.
First of all, I opened up the CD digi-pack to see that Al is now joined by Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) and Jelo Biafra (Dead Kennedys and Lard). Right there, I should have known this wasn't going to be RevCo. Joined by Phildo Owen (Skate Nigs), Stevie Banch (Spyder Baby) and Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, these guys released a CD full of songs that probably chronicle a weekend in the studio with some old friends, a sheet of acid, a cooler full of liquor and a sack full of pills, weed, lighters and pipes. None of the songs really sound like any time was put into perfecting them. Instead, I picture them, along with drummer Mark Baker, partying and jamming, and...oh yeah...pressing "record" on the 4-track and the computer.
I have a problem, as one of the other reviewers mentioned, with using the monicker "Revolting Cocks." This is more Ministry-oriented music. It;s almost like they took a page out of Martin Atkins' book, and put together a Pigface project...I'm telling you--throughout this CD I kept thinking of Pigface. Different musicains on each song...some songs crazy, some joke around...some hit you in the face, and some are just boring. Songs so different, you can which guy wrote what. I have to say--Jelo's songs pull my rating down on this one. His songs are the weak links, with "Viagra Culture" being the worst. Good lyrics to begin the song, but the music and chorus are SO bad. Ugh. Gibby's songs "RevCo Medley" and "...Au Lait" are typical Butthole Surfer-sounding tunes. Take a classic rock song, turn up the distortion, and let Gibby screech out some crazy Texas jibberish. The real winners on this CD: "Devil Cock," "Jack In The Crack" and "Dead End Streets." Stevie Banch has his prints all over these, with Jelo collaborating on Dead End. These are dark, eerie, industrialized metal songs.
If you're a RevCo fan from the 80's, don't expect to like this one. In fact, you'll probably hate it. It's for people who love Ministry, Lard, Pigface and Butthole Surfers.
IN MY OPINION, THIS WAS RELEASED JUST TO BEEF UP THE LINE-UP ON AL'S NEW RECORD LABEL AND WEBSITE, "13TH PLANET" AND TO PULL EVERYONE OUT OF THE WOODWORK TO BUY A TICKET FOR HIS UPCOMING "MASTURBA-TOUR"...MINISTRY & REVCO...It's a decent CD anyway, though.
Free Music Review: Oh Al...
Hit: 3 Stars
So consummate is my fanboyism that I am morally obligated to listen to everything Gibby records at least once, but lord, this just isn't good. I guess I can agree that it's the best industrial album of 2006, but that's really not the compliment it sounds like given the competition. The ever-increasing prevalence of unthinkably powerful computers has pretty much made the entire movement passé--any kid with a pirated copy of ProTools can do this stuff in their sleep these days--and Christina Aguilera's latest record arguably embodies the mechanistic time card punching work ethic just as well as anything Genesis P. Orridge ever laid on tape.
This album is still more respectable than your average Trent's-broke-and-needs-another-fix charity fundraiser release, but there hasn't really been anything genuinely exciting going on in the genre since Jim Nash died. Even the last Foetus release was a tragedy and I always thought he could do no wrong.