The album “Beelzebubba”, released in 1998, is one of the best albums ever made.\u00a0 I make that statement without hesitation and with the fervor of one who knows what’s inside the album’s grooves… the cassette’s magnetic tracks… the CD’s track-shaped-bits and the mp3’s 1s and 0s.<\/p>\n
Man, is this a great album.\u00a0 I don’t know how many people even remember this band.\u00a0 They started out as a “joke” band… and they were more funny than musical.\u00a0 By the time they got around to releasing this album in ’88, they were sufficiently talented enough with their instruments to make actual songs, and damn good ones at that.\u00a0 This song<\/a> is probably my favorite on the album.<\/p>\n And this album is still fucking funny – just as many knee-slappers per square centimeter as their previous albums.\u00a0 Its 17 songs mock or joke about:<\/p>\n Well, isn’t THAT a fine how-do-you-do!\u00a0 I’ve referred to this album as the band’s “Dark Side of the Moon”.\u00a0 It’s that good.\u00a0 Anyone who disagrees is WRONG!!!!<\/p>\n Okay, I’ll get a hold of myself.\u00a0 I’m talking too much about the album as opposed to the song again, and I should save this precious (precocious?) verbiage (garbage?) for the actual album review.<\/p>\n Yes, I intend to review whole albums on this blog.\u00a0 Be afraid.\u00a0 Be very afraid.<\/p>\n So, this song switches tempo and feel abruptly between the verse, bridge and chorus.\u00a0 And it fucking rocks because of that.\u00a0 Especially when the singer (I forget the cute names they called themselves, you can look it up if you want) screams (he mostly screamed rather than sang) “NOOOOOOOOO!!!!\u00a0 IT’S TOOOO MELLLOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!” Classic stuff indeed.<\/p>\n And the use of a keyboard playing the sound of a Hammond organ over the song just puts the cherry on top for me.<\/p>\n If you like what you hear in this song, and you want to check out the band’s stuff, get everything up to this album, and nothing else.\u00a0 Maybe pick up the “best of” collection they released, “Death Rides a Pale Cow”.<\/p>\n They took a sharp nosedive in freshness and quality after this album.\u00a0 On one album, “Soul Rotation”, they even ditched the funny altogether and tried to be a serious band.<\/p>\n Not good.<\/p>\n\n
\nover and over again.<\/p>\n