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22 December 2023
It's the new Guttermouth album!
Let's begin with an excerpt from "Pee In The Shower", track #6 on Guttermouth's August 13 Epitaph release, Gusto:
"Just because I live like an animal / room smells like a petting zoo / sometimes I go pee in the shower / does not mean I don't love you."
Crude? Immature? Fuck no! That's poetry, my friends. The unbridled free-verse of a full-grown man with the mind of an eight-year-old. And that, true believers, is not my opinion. That's what Guttermouth frontman/genius Mark Adkins claims in the liner notes of his awesome band, Guttermouth's latest disc, Gusto. They're punk rock's Lenny Bruce answer to They Might Be Giants. Kids could dig it, but they're parents might shit a brick. That's just how it goes when words like "scruples" and "sacred" don't exist in your creative vocabulary. Imagine Blink-182 with balls. That's Guttermouth.
Musically, they're like green peppers in chocolate ice cream: it doesn't particularly sound like something you'd want in your diet, but once you try it, you're hooked. There's a whole lot of Jim Brown honky-crunching punk-rock fury on the record. There's also some Spanish Armada-style pirate rock ("Looking Out For #1"), some Liberace-on-crack lounge ("Twins"), and, well, then there's the last song, "Lemon Water". Imagine if Rain Man recorded an album with Ween, back when Ween were enthusiastic acid eaters, and they made a promotional appearance on Twin Peaks, playing during one of the scenes where Agent Cooper is chillin' with the midget and his for-mi-ca ta-ble. That's "Lemon Water".
That's Guttermouth. And that's Gusto. Buy it, fuck-ass.
Let's begin with an excerpt from "Pee In The Shower", track #6 on Guttermouth's August 13 Epitaph release, Gusto:
"Just because I live like an animal / room smells like a petting zoo / sometimes I go pee in the shower / does not mean I don't love you."
Crude? Immature? Fuck no! That's poetry, my friends. The unbridled free-verse of a full-grown man with the mind of an eight-year-old. And that, true believers, is not my opinion. That's what Guttermouth frontman/genius Mark Adkins claims in the liner notes of his awesome band, Guttermouth's latest disc, Gusto. They're punk rock's Lenny Bruce answer to They Might Be Giants. Kids could dig it, but they're parents might shit a brick. That's just how it goes when words like "scruples" and "sacred" don't exist in your creative vocabulary. Imagine Blink-182 with balls. That's Guttermouth.
Musically, they're like green peppers in chocolate ice cream: it doesn't particularly sound like something you'd want in your diet, but once you try it, you're hooked. There's a whole lot of Jim Brown honky-crunching punk-rock fury on the record. There's also some Spanish Armada-style pirate rock ("Looking Out For #1"), some Liberace-on-crack lounge ("Twins"), and, well, then there's the last song, "Lemon Water". Imagine if Rain Man recorded an album with Ween, back when Ween were enthusiastic acid eaters, and they made a promotional appearance on Twin Peaks, playing during one of the scenes where Agent Cooper is chillin' with the midget and his for-mi-ca ta-ble. That's "Lemon Water".
That's Guttermouth. And that's Gusto. Buy it, fuck-ass.
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vol 4 - issue 11 (aug 2002)
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