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LIEUTENANTS- Every Time I Come Around (Teenage
Heart Records) The only thing crazier than the Bad Lieutenants sound
is their whacked history. Primarily made up of former and very different
sounding Connecticut bands, The Chinks and Stitch, the Bad ones call both
Boston and Connecticut home. Sadly, the driving force behind this band,
guitarist Steve Theriault, died in November 2005, but the rest of the gang
forges ahead with reckless abandon. The music is an eclectic collection of
balls out rock with many influences ranging from punk (most prevalent),
arena rock, and even some good ol’ fashioned southern chaw rock. Opening
track “Balls Out of Memphis” is a hard hitting rock force with hints
of Southern influences similar to the great GoToHells. “Billy Smith”
and “Stand Up and Fall” are guitar driven smashes with licks of early
Cheap Trick arena style madness, only more rock than arena. “ Little
Hitler,” one of my favorites, reminds me of The Misfits circa Legacy of
Brutality, i.e. Angle Fuck. On the faster side of things, “Now You Gone
N Done It” is insane and is that a hint of Zeppelin style vocals and
guitar in there for a few seconds? “Fuckers” and “Waiting on a
Lid” sounds like old Dee Dee Ramone tunes; think Warthog type stuff. See
what I mean? While the music is loaded with hints of this and hints of
that, Bad Lieutenants steamroll over those hints with their own manic
rocky/punky/thrashy sound that’ll either have you reaching for a beer,
or throwing someone out the window. With song lengths at approx two
minutes, the tunes gun along and end leaving you thirsty for more. As the
risk of coming across like a cock smooch, Boston’s Brian McCaffrey has
been one of my favorite singers since his Stitch daze, so I was glad to
hear his return. They have their shyt together on this fifteen song disc
and if these guys can keep their shyt together, Bad Lieutenants could have
a pretty good run for the foreseeable future. – Denis Sheehan |
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