The 1985 Listening Post - Killdozer - Snake Boy

Killdozer - Snake Boy

#356/992

September 29 1985

Killdozer

Snake Boy

Genre: Punk

4 out of 5

Highlights:

River

“Holy Mackerel, Holy Cow! I wonder where that old river is now.” Killdozer sings on River and I swear it’s hilarious. If The Residents were a noise/punk/metal band they would sound like Killdozer. 

If the Green Mountain Killer needed a soundtrack it would sound, musically, like Killdozer, but these guys have too much of a sense of humor to associate with real serial killers. Yet, at the same time, they aren’t frivolous. They’re menacing. Geez, listen to their cover of “Cinnamon Girl”! It’s the stuff of bataan death march nightmares. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/snakeboy/1120153031

The 1984 Listening Post - Killdozer - Intellectuals are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite

Killdozer - Intellectuals are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite

#19

January 1984

Killdozer

Intellectuals are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite

3.5 out of 5

Butch Vig produced this. And maybe he needed more time behind the boards cuz this is an awful sounding record. It’s all so smushed down in the mix that it’s difficult for me to get in to any of the tunes. And that’s too bad because I can tell that they are witty and worthwhile punk screeds. They are also very grungy. Damn, I wish this was mastered better. I wanna turn it up. Points off for that. I prefer this singer’s growl to Chris D. from Fleshtones. A growl’s a growl, I know. I just like this one better. And he turns Fogerty’s “Run Through the Jungle” into the horror show soundtrack it deserves to be. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/intellectuals-are-the-shoeshine-boys-of-the-ruling-elite/1120039786