#104/1270 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
March 1986
King Kurt
Big Cock
Genre: Psychobilly
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
The Bowland Fen Decoy
Road to Rack n Ruin
Mama Kurt
Big Daddy
Lux Interior paved the way for stuff like King Kurt but the Cramps could never get this psycho or this Billy.
My brain doesn’t work properly for simile sometimes but I’m wracking it trying to recall if there was anything close to this that we’ve covered yet. Besides the Cramps, I mean. This is straight up Psychobilly. More so than that first Southern Culture on the Skids record or even Mojo. (Thank goodness for the genre data on the spreadsheet!) It’s got that puffed up self-aggrandizement on Road to Rack and Ruin and it pays it’s devoted homage to Eddie Cochran as well as The Munsters but it’s not Stray Cats or the aforementioned Cramps. It points to the future of the Reverend Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy and Tiger Army and I freaking love it.
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