While working on their follow-up to the CD Barnyard
Delights, RoosterHead released a sampler cassette of their upcoming
CD Confronting Your Molester. It was entitled Tasting Your Molester
and contained several tracks that never appeared on that CD, eventually
retitled Traditional Cock. We've collected these tracks, including the
WKPX Christmas favorite Mr. Lampshade's Violent Xmas along
with earlier tracks remixed personally by Pete Moss for later inclusion
on his own career best-of collection. Also featured in this set is an
unreleased cover of the song Darlin' Be Home Soon originally performed
by the Lovin' Spoonful.
It's interesting to listen as the original Kennedy/Moss version of Roosterhead
runs into the full band version and vice-versa. The full band version
rocks harder, approaching a Led Zeppelin heaviness in places, while
the Moss remixes shine light on the pure pop quality of the earlier
songs. Oh, and the Mike Vullo penned Drunken Angel is the greatest Teenage
Fanclub song ever recorded.
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