Harvey Milk - The Pleaser
March 23 2008 at 09:30:57 AM
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy! Harvey Milk went and did a novel thing: right before they sunk their own goddamned ship they recorded an album for no one so much as themselves, fattened on Southern boogie and unrepentant paeans to prick-hugging '70s stage stalkers. ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin and Kiss are harnessed, saddled and ridden into the goddamned ground with astonishing musicianship.
The 'Milk's "Shame" takes Led Zep's "Black Dog" and trains him for the scrappin' pit; "Misery" rides a Hill/Beard snorter bareback, twisted and turned in mock rapture, hooves upended in fields of burnt wheat; "Rock & Roll Party Tonite" undulates the ten-foot tongue, a four-minute plus homage to g-spot revelry, light beer fountains, Greco-Roman wrestling in a gelatin ring. The live disc is as good as the studio, and features a heart-thumping rendition of "Deuce." Baby, if you're feeling good/And, Baby, if you're feeling nice/You know you're many is workin' hard/He's worth a deuce…
[Stewart Voegtlin]
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