The Hookers
I considered adding The Hookers cover of “Halloween” to my Halloween mix post, but thought better of it. Why? Well, The Hookers really deserve a post of their own. I can’t think of band that has a cruder, more over the top level of misdirected machismo running through their body of work than this Lexington, KY quartet. Not that that’s a bad thing though. It’s kind of entertaining to hear songs that beat you over the head with ham-fisted wanna be metal lyrics celebrating Satan, sluts, evil, dope, and sexual prowess. And really, the music does rock - think early Nashville Pussy minus all the sophistication (vocalist Adam “Rock and Roll Outlaw” Neal was the original drummer for Nashville Pussy).
It all comes together on the band’s two shining moments - 1997’s Satan’s Highway LP and the 1998 split 10″/CD with Electric Frankenstein. Both releases delivered a mix of hard driving metal tinged punk, goofball braggadocio, and throat shredding vocals that really does kick ass - you simply can’t deny the greatness of tracks such as “Rock ‘n’ Roll Motherfucker” and “Tear You Apart”. I hopped off The Hookers bandwagon after these two releases, ignoring subsequent releases like Black Visions of Crimson Glory. So someone clue me in - this was all a joke, right? I mean, a band that covers Spinal Tap (”Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight”) has to be laughing with us…
from their debut 7″
The Hookers- Kiss My Fuckin’ Ass.mp3
from Satan’s Highway
The Hookers - Get Fucked.mp3
The Hookers - Tear You Apart.mp3
The Hookers - We Don’t Fuck Around.mp3
from the split with Electric Frankenstein
The Hookers - Rock ‘n’ Roll Motherfucker.mp3
The Hookers - Runaway Nightmare.mp3
The Hookers - Let’s Get High.mp3
Notes:
** Toestubber has an informative Hookers post. Check it out
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Throat-shredding vocals indeed! You have to wonder what he sounds like the next morning after a performance.
BTW: What were the Electric Frankenstein songs on that split?
Here’s the listing of the EF tracks from the CD version of the split:
Electric Frankenstein: Listen Up, Baby!
Electric Frankenstein: Neurotic Pleasures
Electric Frankenstein: Hostage Situation
Electric Frankenstein: Social Infections
Electric Frankenstein: Hammered
Electric Frankenstein: Takin’ It All
Electric Frankenstein: Rocket In My Veins (Estrus 7″)
Electric Frankenstein: You’re So Fake (Estrus 7″)
A SILT post on EF is in the works…
[…] Electric Frankenstein - Tatoo Vampire Also, check out the Electric Frankenstein’s split with the Hookers over at Something I Learned Today […]
“I can’t think of band that has a cruder, more over the top level of misdirected machismo running through their body of work” — The Mentors!
This was exactly what my life needed right now.
Yea, the Mentors. Did anyone ever see the video of that priest complaining about lyrics in front of the PMRC? He recited Golden Showers (I think that’s the name). To watch a clergyman utter the words, “golden showers/prune skin power/on your face I create a shit tower” was awesome. He said this was what kids were listening to, although I highly doubt more than a couple thousand tops would have known who the hell he was talking about.
Funny, the Mentors jumped immediately to mind when I saw the “cruder, more over the top…” comment, even before looking at the various replies. One of my fondest punk rock memories was seeing St. Vitus and the Mentors on a bitter cold Pittsburgh night at the Electric Banana. Maybe 25 people in the club. St. Vitus opened, but they blew the Mentors off the stage - they were absolutely amazing… the Mentors came out with their black hoods, shirtless and fat, and played a sloppy set of crude anthems… I must confess I sang along “find her, feel her, fuck her, forget her….” Not my proudest moment.
hey eric,
thanks fer yet another great post.good news,
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Horrible, just horrible. And what a poser galore. Awful, really. Get your hands off such wannabes, please. There are enuff wannabes with decent music around.
Nah, come on E! In this case you have missed the point. This is brill! Totally over ze top!! Just listen to R n´R Motherfucker. Amazing! Hilariuos!
E… truly this must be “Good Bad Music”?!??
I saw the Mentors in a metal club in South St Louis. El Duce was the only drummer I ever saw play drums with one hand while the other hand was holding an entire pitcher of beer….of which he drank from constantly.
To Otto — My GIRLFRIEND at the time sang along with the Mentors. I can’t remember what song but I remember thinking “something seriously wrong here.” She HATED the Mentors with a passion but I guess she got caught up in thier “rock godliness”…or she was nuts.
There’s a thin red line between good bad and bad bad. And yes, sometimes I sound like a complete asshole, especially in comments, haha. Apologizes. I’ve had a hard day that day.