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Angry Johnny Where's Your Jesus Now? CD (2008)
Bailar La Rumba songs From Mr Don "Hollywood" Adams....
"I just CARVED YOUR NAME in my arm, feeling like an asshole right now," is one hilariously pathetic opening line. By the end of this most efficient of Angry Johnny's many love-gone-wrong songs, the poor sucker decides that he "Should have carved a little deeper/a Grim Reaper in my arm."
THE BOTTLE AND ME is proof positive that alcohol is a depressant. "The bottom of the heap/is the company I keep." Angry finds a place to do some drinking and thinking in the GRAVEL YARD, realizing, "That castle in the air, it was never really there." IF I HAD A DOLLAR is like a strong cup of coffee on the morning after, bitter and black. HOW YOU GONNA FEEL? is another deadly litany, with some lively guitar work. TAKE ME DOWN might be called "House of the Setting Sun," with its welcome addition of Animals-style keyboards.
THIS HEART is not Angry enough, but the double-tracked vocals are unique. HEY HANK finds Johnny bending the legendary tunesmith's ear with the sincerest form of flattery.
THIS TIME is an interesting experiment that's got Angry coming and going. New lyrics are combined with a reversed version of "I Wanna Tell You a Story." The result is oddly compelling, like listening to a schizo trying to drown out the voices that haunt his head.
"I bet they're fucking right now as we speak," Old Scratch taunts in FALL FROM GRACE, for all the booze and drugs, one of the more sobering of Angry's trademark encounters with the Dark One.
The barbs continue in SCRATCH SAID. "Hey boy, I heard a real funny joke today/She never loved you, anyway."
A game of 8 BALL down at the VFW ends in a bitter victory -- if you hustle the Devil, the only place you can brag ...
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