BOC: Kiss My Axe (While I Drink My Beer)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 13 Apr 2009, at 18:11 , Steve Swann wrote:
> I have two thoughts on the subject:
> 1. If I was a rock-n-roller, I would do shit like this at the drop of
> a hat - but that's because I have a broad sense of fun, and no
> overblown notions of maintaining a dignified public persona.

Hell, yeah!


> [...] I really enjoyed hearing him [Eric B.] fronting a
> such a goofy mock-epic production.


Well ... "Black Blade" kinda comes close -- though maybe that's only  
in hindsight. :)


> 2. This is way better sounding than it has any right to be.  As a
> matter of fact, after the first couple of listens and the initial "Oh
> my god, that's silly" reaction, it really started to grow on me, and
> I've been listening to it incessantly.  It sounds almost like Eric
> fronting Manowar.  God help me - it actually occurred to me that I
> like this better than Heaven Forbid (can I get booted off my own list
> for saying that?), and I think it's because the Manowar-meets-Spinal
> Tap lyrics are more fun than John Shirley's...  ;-)



There is no prize for writing lyrics that are more fun than John  
Shirley's .... :)

Well, this is very silly, but then so was the whole Live Chronicles  
video, and I always got a kick out of it, too.  Better than _all_ of  
Heaven Forbid?  Well .... no, I'm not sure about that. :)  OK, sure,  
HF seems a little too much like an effort at BOC by the numbers, with  
John Shirley not managing to take the place of Pearlman's (and  
Meltzer's) "inspired weirdness" in the lyrics department, and  
something of a drizzle in the musical inspiration department ....  
But, hey, Harvest Moon is actually a pretty good song (for al that it  
looooong predates HF, and for all that I would have liked to hear it  
sounding more sinister :)).

Possibly, however, "Kiss My Axe" is better _entertainment_ than much  
of _Heaven Forbid_. :)

It is, at any rate, new music from out the side of the BOC camp, or  
2OC camp, or whatever it is, these days -- which is something after  
all these years of effective studio silence!

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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