After parting ways with his partner of the last six years, Skid Roper, rock\u2019s madman Mojo Nixon struck out on his own. Teaming up with producer Jim Dickinson and putting together a hell of a backing band \u2013 including members of Dash Rip Rock, the Beat Farmers, the Del-Lords and X \u2013<\/p>\n
Nixon set out to make a different type of record than the ones that had garnered him all the notoriety he had already achieved.<\/p>\n
This album\u2019s most famous song is \u201cDon Henley Must Die,\u201d a diatribe against that SOB from the Eagles and all the crappy music he\u2019s subjected us to over the years. Mojo succeeds in tearing the whiny Eagle apart (and even made Henley a fan in the process). But this record wasn\u2019t all humorous and sophomoric like his other records had been. Mojo decided to try something different to see if it worked, and I\u2019ll be damned if he didn\u2019t achieve what he wanted.<\/p>\n
The sheer power of opening track \u201cDestroy All Lawyers\u201d really helps from having the whole band rockin\u2019 behind him. Without a doubt, this is one of his most notable tracks. His sense of humor still reigns supreme on this disc; \u201cI Wanna Race Bigfoot Trucks\u201d is a good example, but the best one is \u201cShane\u2019s Dentist,\u201d a quick little track about Shane McGowan of the Pogues and his disgusting, rotting teeth. This truly needs to be heard to be believed.<\/p>\n
Some tracks like \u201cPerry Mason Of Love\u201d and \u201cYou Can Dress \u2018Em Up (But You Can\u2019t Take \u2018Em Out)\u201d truly have not aged well, but the sense of fun and sheer joy that can be heard on every damn track is something that must be admired. One of my personal favorites is the old school funk throwback \u201cPut a Sex Mo-Sheen In The White House,\u201d which is just funky and fun as hell and should go down as one of Mojo\u2019s greatest moments EVER! The final track, \u201cGonna Be A New World\u201d is one of the more introspective songs Mojo ever did. It\u2019s a very interesting track and a fine, fine way to end this record.<\/p>\n
Maybe if Mojo\u2019s record label had been a bit more solvent, he would have been able to make more records like this. But alas, it was not to be and his recording career became more stagnant after this release. But damn, was this a great record that should be discovered by fans of great music!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":32734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5833],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-44504","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-mojo-nixon","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44504"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}