Reverend Horton Heat - Smoke 'em If You Got 'em '1990

Tracks list

       Given how the psychobilly/punk/greaser/whatever underground just seemed
to grow and grow throughout the '90s, there's every reason in the world to
choose this album as one of the things that sparked it off. Little doubt as to
why, too, re-recorded on two-track after a more technically complex version was
deemed to lack that certain something, Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em fires up strong
with "Bullet" and doesn't stop there. Heat's fierce guitar playing is just as
perfectly matched by Bentley's anything-but-polite drumming and Wallace's
low-end mania, while Heat's occasional wails and yodels add the frosting to a
cake, which is very clearly devil's food if anything. From there it's a dozen
anti-meditations on everything from the joys of meat eating -- "Eat Steak," how
much more direct can one get? -- to the demon weed "Marijuana" and the perfectly
appropriate "Psychobilly Freakout." Heat's killer punch is his wide-ranging
approach -- AC/DC is as much a reference point for what the heck's going on, as
is the classic western swing that inspires "Baby, You Know Who" and the fierce,
kicking "Bad Reputation." Imagining what the Bob Wills crew could have done with
this one is a fun game to play, though it's doubtful Wills himself would have
allowed a line like "You're the kind of girl I like to eat" to surface. It's all
sleaze, it's all wrong, and it's all so very, very right. How can anyone say no
to the type of song that's a classic swampy rock strut with in-yer-face
drumming, fiery solos and a title like "Big Dwarf Rodeo," after all? Credit as
well for the great front cover photo that makes Heat look somewhere between the
oiliest insurance salesman alive, a refugee from the Nudie suit modeling school,
and Elmer Gantry.

Tracklist:
1 01. Reverend Horton Heat - Bullet (03:06)
1 02. Reverend Horton Heat - I'm Mad (03:16)
1 03. Reverend Horton Heat - Bad Reputation (02:25)
1 04. Reverend Horton Heat - It's A Dark Day (05:04)
1 05. Reverend Horton Heat - Big Dwarf Rodeo (03:02)
1 06. Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout (02:39)
1 07. Reverend Horton Heat - Put It To Me Straight (02:34)
1 08. Reverend Horton Heat - Marijuana (04:49)
1 09. Reverend Horton Heat - Baby You Know Who (02:39)
1 10. Reverend Horton Heat - Eat Steak (02:33)
1 11. Reverend Horton Heat - D For Dangerous (04:05)
1 12. Reverend Horton Heat - Love Whip (03:43) 

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