 Um, yeah. If you don't like Turbonegro, this won't change your mind. On a side note, I happened to see this band perform live when they opened for Queens of the Stone Age. When you see them live, they are humorously entertaining, energetic, and generally fun to watch. I suggest seeing them to anyone who enjoys a slightly more casual and less edgy concert experience. They're a lot of fun. However, on the album, they are less fun.
Proving that seeing a band live is the only way to really experience them, Turbonegro blasts out of Norway to deliver an average performance. Yes, they're all white, for those curious. They have a sound that I can only describe as being like Alice Cooper cross-bred with the Village People. I'm not kidding, that's really what they sound like. And the lead singer looks like Meatloaf with Cooper's face paint. Like I said, see them live, don't worry so much about their recordings. They've sounded like this for several albums now, so everyone who knows of them has more or less drawn the line on whether or not they enjoy the band. This new effort won't be forcing anyone to switch sides. If I had a gun to my head and had to listen to this album or else, I would probably pick "Sell Your Body (to the Night)" or "Turbonegro Must be Destroyed." Both because they're somewhat entertaining in their inherit goofiness, for lack of a more stylish term. There's not really anything bad here. Not really anything great here. A couple things that might make you smirk, a few that might not. Some pretty good guitar playing by Euroboy comes in handy now and again, and the one guy's resemblance to Hank Williams is kinda funny. These, however, are offset by often bizarre, unnecessary, and downright strange sexual overtones. Don't worry about metaphor, there isn't any. Apparently "subtlety" is not one of the words in the band's limited English vocabulary. Yup. That's about all she wrote for this one. For fans of Turbonegro (all thirty of you,) this is a must have. For everyone else, leave well alone and go on about your lives. A 5. |
