Legend has it that the Leslie Kong produced Best Of The Wailers album title so irked Bunny Wailer (he apparently disliked the title and Leslie Kong as he felt the title was premature when he believed the best was yet to come, it stands as a great and overlooked album though) that he placed an Obeah (kind of similar to Haiti’s Voodoo culture and taken very seriously in JA) curse on the producer who accordingly died very soon after he released the album!
The AllMusic review sums up what I liked about it at the time and my enjoyment still holds today.
When other European rockers of the '90s were being influenced by Pearl Jam, Sevendust, or Radiohead, Oslo, Norway’s Turbonegro decided to provide a throwback to the decadent, hedonistic glam metal, heavy metal, and hard rock of the '70s and '80s. Combine the influence of punk rock with traces of Alice Cooper, Mötley Crüe, Judas Priest, or Quiet Riot, and you’ve got Apocalypse Dudes, an in-your-face album that thrives on wild, rowdy, bratty fun.*
Sometime last year I asked the question about reworkings of full albums (rather than just a cover of a single song)
This album was one of the suggestions.
I seem to remember enjoying it at the time, however relistening now not so sure - pity it’s an accurate representation of the original even down to the spike s adverts between tracks
It’s taken me several years to find a really nice original copy of The Wall.
My first copy I bought when I was at college was on release; it was played to death. Apart from slight surface noise on side 2 in quiet phases this plays like a dream. Very happy!
Just back from a welcome win in the football so need something zen to maintain the spiritual high. Calling Don Brown Rice! Lyrical tender and uplifting. On rather good A&M reissue vinyl.
Brown Rice! Lyrical tender and uplifting. On rather good A&M reissue vinyl.
