motorhead and iggy influenced cowpunk with some 70's influences

15 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Punk, ROCK: Hard Rock



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This album is rated NC-17, kids. This is not your big sisterâs tear-jerker straightedge band.

The Bad Lieutenants play punk-infused arena rock like retarded hillbillies. âThey brought us out of the swamps. They stuck us in the cities. It was overload. Temptations were everywhere. What did they think was gonna happen? Giving in was too much fun.â

Take the sounds of todayâs bands like The Staggers and The Dwarves and mix them with elements of Motorhead, The Stooges, AC/DC and Johnny Thunders and youâve got âEvery Time I Come Aroundâ, a debut that was a decade in the making and cost much more than the studio time. The album is a descent into a world where personal demons are ignored for the amusement of crude jokes and the power of instant gratification.

The Bad Lieutenants are a later incarnation of Connecticutâs greatest unknown punk rock band: The Chinks. First powered up in the mid 90âs, the Chinks went down in a ball of substance-induced flames in less than three years. Their impact was on few, but it was lasting. By 1998 Steve Theriault, the song-writing force behind the force, found himself serving time and re-habbing cold turkey in one of the stateâs maximum security facilities. Redemption and salvation donât come cheap. Songs like âChristmas Time Bombâ, âFriends and Familyâ, âPolice Truckâ, and several other never-recorded tracks all tackle the very high cost of finding a path out of despair. Yet most of the songs revel in the glory and freedom of never compromising with a squareâs life. Leave the straight and narrow to the straight and narrow.

âMidnight Beefcakeâ, the last song on the album, is the last recording of Steve Theriault playing lead guitar. Until his next time around, the fireworks contained in this two-minute slaughterhouse will have to sustain ya!

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