Dog Bar Yacht Club [Import]

Product Description
It took 27 yeas ti willie and the boom boom band to record their 3er album. It was worth the wait. The godfather of garage rock and his gang are back and they rock like a bunch of teenagers.This is one of the most powerful rock ever recorded,

Dog Bar Yacht Club,Willie Alexander & the Boom Boom Band,Garage Rock,Power Pop,Rock & Roll,Rock/Pop,United States of America

Average customer rating: One of the Worst Albums I've Ever Heard Yes it is THAT GREAT! They may look older, but they're still more punk rock than ever!

Dog Bar Yacht Club Willie Alexander & the Boom Boom Band Manufacturer: Last Call Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Power Pop | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CRR3JC Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

1. Gravelly Hill
2. Hey Kid
3. At the Post Office
4. Fred Buck's Footsteps
5. Who Killed Deanna
6. High Tide Heroes
7. Oceans Condo III
8. Oh Daddy Oh
9. Telephone Sex
10. Ogalala
11. AAWW
12. Mystery Training
13. So Innocent

Customer Reviews:

One of the Worst Albums I've Ever Heard.......2007-05-03

Okay, I have to take a deep breath for this one, because this album is so spectacularly lousy.

I was a fan of Willie Alexander and his Boom Boom Band ages ago, and still like his MCA Records output (particularly the debut LP). I like some of his '80s solo material as well as '90s work he did with his Persistence of Memory Orchestra. I got a chance to pick this new reunion album up cheap, and when I finally got around to listening to it I was astonished by 1) how bad it is and 2) that there are people out there giving this piece of garbage 5-star reviews.

First off, Willie Alexander has nothing left to say. I have never heard a person who likes to hear himself talk this much but with zero content. Alexander yammers repetitiously throughout the album, much of the time just repeating song titles over and over when he's not busy quoting lines from earlier songs of his own or blathering about the same 5 locations in Boston for the eight billionth time. "Fred Buck's Footsteps," about a mail carrier, has to be among the most overblown and pathetic "tribute" songs ever written. Over the course of 6 excruciating minutes, you get to hear Alexander say the title about fifty thousand times, when he's not equating the mailman's footsteps with--get this--the film Birth of a Nation and the flippin' Rosetta Stone. Or when he's not telling us that the mailman's footsteps could fill the Grand Canyon. But all of that is pure poetry compared to the useless sludge of songs like "Telephone Sex"; if you've heard one Willie Alexander song you can already guess exactly how this one goes: he says the title a thousand times, then lists a bunch of girls' names, and then says the title a thousand more times (including, annoyingly, about a hundred times where he shortens it to "T-sex). I could go on and on, as most of the songs are so bad I could spend a hour telling you why, but why bother? Well, let me go on a little more: the only decent song here, "Hey Kid," wasn't written by Alexander; the closing number, "So Innocent," starts out okay but then Alexander starts babbling about how he "must have been hitchhiking"--where, you ask? Why, Mass. Ave., of course! The site of eight trillion other Alexander songs and utterances! Jeez, Willie, I know you are "Loco" and everything, but could you leave a five-block radius once in a while?

Then there's the band. If you want warmed-over bar band music, fine. But for those of you unfortunate individuals who are so uninformed and limited in your scope that you think this is edgy punk rock, you must own about 5 albums. If you really think these guys are the best at anything other than being lousy, you really know nothing about music. If you really think any kid would throw away their Green Day or Blink 182 albums for this piece of steaming manure, you are seriously deluded or just too darn old to have any sense left. The group was never punk--they were a lame Boston bar band, even at their best.

I can't say enough times how bad this album is. If you like it, you are a Willie Alexander fanatic and that's a problem right there. No reasonable individual could possibly do an objective critical analysis of this album and determine that it is great. I have heard thousands of albums and have been paid to do so. I never bother writing anything about music on Amazon. However, this album is such an unbelievably bad piece of vomit that I can't stop talking about exactly how bad it is. I feel very sorry for the band, their families, and anyone who likes this album. Pathetic.

Yes it is THAT GREAT!.......2007-02-11

I made a big mistake with my review of Radio Birdman's "Zeno Beach"saying that it and The New York Doll's "One day it will Please us" are the greatest comeback cd's of all time. I should have also mentioned "Dog Bar" also. It Blows away all the contenders trying for the throne of Heaviest Rock Band in the land. Billy Loosigian shows on Gravity Hill why he is a strong contender for Heaviest Les Paul player in the world.LOve that sound of an overdriven Marshall. And the production by David Minehan of the greatly missed Neighborhoods is masterful. HEAVY and So Good. Welcome back Willie Baby and you're still the Best Lookin Singer in rock n roll!

They may look older, but they're still more punk rock than ever!.......2006-03-01

The first time I went to the Rat in '81 I was lucky enough to see Willie Alexander, Boston punk rock personified. Willie was like Boston's love child of Lou Reed and Johnny Thunders. Now 24 years later he's back with The Boom Boom Band, by far the best of all of his bands. And it sounds as if they'd never missed a day. In fact although the two original MCA albums "Willie Alexander And The Boom Boom Band" and "Meanwhile Back In The States" have a cool vibe about them, each with a few standout tracks ("Radio Heart , Lookin' Like A Bimbo" and "Kerouac" from "...Boom Boom Band" and "Hitchhiking", "You Looked So Pretty When" and "Melinda" from "...States"), they are a bit inconsistent overall with spotty production. Not so here; every song from the reunited Boom Booms is great and David Minehan's (late of The Neighborhoods, another Boston punk legend) production captures both the raw power and the poetry of the band perfectly. I can't recommend this album enough. People who knew WA and Co. the first time 'round will love them even more, and kids just discovering punk may want to throw their Green Day and Blink 182 albums away. Let's face it...the people who invent it always do it better!

Average customer rating:

Dog Bar Yacht Club Willie Alexander & the Boom Boom Band ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Power Pop | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000B8526I Release Date: 2005-09-20

Tracks:

1. Gravelly Hill
2. Hey Kid
3. At The Post Office
4. Fred Buck's Footsteps
5. Who Killed Deanna
6. High Tide Heroes
7. Oceans Condo III
8. Oh Daddy Oh
9. Telephone Sex
10. Ogalata
11. AAWW
12. Mystery Training
13. So Innocent

Album Description

It took 27 yeas ti willie and the boom boom band to record their 3er album. It was worth the wait. The godfather of garage rock and his gang are back and they rock like a bunch of teenagers.This is one of the most powerful rock ever recorded,

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