THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT!

So these guys have been around for 25 years. I've only just bumped into them. That's because I honestly don't put the hours in any more. Don't do my homework. I figure, if keeping a music blog alive becomes "work", then fuck it. I'm trying my best to put exciting stuff here. The trouble is I'm not as excitable as I used to be. Finding the good stuff means you gotta shovel heaps of shit for days and I'm just sick of that. I pretty much have come to the point where I stick to what I know and I let the billion glittering & crazy or sensitive & boringly insightful newcomers parade before my ears like fish in a fish tank: absolute silence. If you're any good, I'll hear about you 25 years from now. Otherwise my fifteen minutes are best wasted on other stuff, such as cutting my toenails with my cat's teeth.

But! The Reverend Horton Heat is exciting. Woke me up, the fucker. I don't know how I found him (I do, but it's boring), but I instantly knew I was on to something tasty. Here's the overly elaborated and snobish-as-fuck comparison I've come up with so far: if Ween's "12 Golden Country Greats" was actually a Moistboyz album recorded on Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's equipment, it would probably sound NOTHING! like these guys! Exciting stuff, eh? I've been listening to them all day (a lot of albums to take in, mind you) and I didn't skip one song. They're all great. Not one bad one. Okay, some you like more than others, but you don't tell them that.

The music's got juice, it rocks, it's funny, it just jumps at your neck and playfully sticks its (plastic!) fangs in it till you bleed forever and die one happy mother of a pinkish death. It's just like farting in a public pool, is what I'm saying.

So I don't know what to tell you, if you like "12 Golden", Moistboyz, Grayson Capps (you know who you are) and good, kick-ass rockabilly fucking punk in general, here you go, have a bite:

The Reverend Horton Heat - Yeah, Right



The Reverend Horton Heat - Marijuana



The Reverend Horton Heat - Where In The Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush



The Reverend Horton Heat - Eat Steak




P.S. Shit, I just listened to "Gin And Tonic Blues" and my brain is dripping out of my ear. I love it!