#41/1208
February 6 1986
D-A-D
Call of the Wild
Genre: Cowpunk
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Call of the Wild
Call of the Wild
Marlboro Man
Jackie O
Trucker
I think this band is actually called Disneyland After Dark.
It’s a Danish band
That plays a nascent form of American music called “Cowpunk”.
Like, they are earlier progenitors of this form. Sure, it’s been around for a short while but..did it get to Denmark?
It’s like if Adam Ant or Wall of Voodoo listened to “Ghost Riders in the Sky” and scrapped all other ideas in favor of Country and played it in small clubs in the valley.
These guys take themselves about as seriously as Jon Wayne but their sense of humor is more refined as is their adulation for the form. “Marlboro Man” is an example of this while “Counting the Cattle” sounds like an audition song for Dr. Demento. And the weirdness of “Jacki O” and the disco-country “Trucker” speak to the times. The 80s were weird, man,
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