#436/1071
1985 Housekeeping
NRBQ & Captain Lou Albano
Lou and the Q
Genre: Rock
1.75 out of 5
The 80s brought us a lot of stupid stuff. Pet Rocks. Saturday Morning cartoons that were more about selling products to kids than entertaining them. Really shitty movies that do NOT stand the test of time (Believe me, I have young kids and we’ve been showing them some 80s flicks. The sexism. The behaviors. The jokes…all of it should be put in a time capsule and shot into the sun.)
But, none of it annoyed me as much as the ascent of “professional wrestling”. I don’t even wanna waste words here on how much Hulk Hogan and the rest of them took what was an idiotic sideshow/freakshow and mainstreamed it. It’s part of the reason we are where we are.
And here’s a mainstream-ish band hooking up with one of the characters who had already begun his climb to household name by hooking up with Cyndi Lauper and putting out a record of relatively benign rock and roll songs interspersed with songs about Lou, songs with Lou, ranting interview of Lou.
I used to have the Uncle Floyd album, the Odd Couple album, the Wonderama album with Bob McAllister (“Does anyone here have an aardvark?”)…this is one of those. Except on this one Captain Lou plays “La Vie En Rose” on piano and…he’s not terrible.
I must say, however, extra point for “Michael Row the Boat Ashore”, only because the best song my first band, The Yeast Infection”, ever performed was a psychopath version of “B-I-N-G-O (There was a Farmer had a Dog)” so there’s a kinship here.
It’s also mostly live so we never should have included it.
This is a bargain bin trifle.
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