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Toadies - Rubberneck Audio CD

A fair review of the Toadies "Rubberneck" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Toadies reviews here, or go back to the Toadies tabs.

Toadies Band: Toadies
Title: Rubberneck
Rating:
Release Date: 1994-08-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Mexican Hairless 2: Mister Love 3: Backslider 4: Possum Kingdom 5: Quitter 6: Away 7: I Come from the Water 8: Tyler 9: Happy Face 10: Velvet 11: I Burn

Love every minute
One of my top favorite albums for sure. These songs are loud and fantastically catchy.


Classic
When no talent bands like Local H were canabalizing the last of what Nirvana began on Nevermind, the Toadies were making riff based southern rock. The Toadies were a band just too good for their time.

And talk about southern: Rubberneck is completely and creepily so. The album is filled with referances to virgin brides, incest, strange religous rituals, snakes, swamps-- all the weird backwoods culture that scares New Englanders when they stereotype the south. If you have seen the film Deliverance and absorb the wierdness of the rednecks, the viceral repulsion it produces is what the Toadies exude, and I am not sure they are kidding. Is daddy gonna give you a whoppin? You bet he is. Bring the belt to the woodshed.

What a striking ability this band has to invoke mileu.

All this would mean little without the music. These guys are tight, tight, and tight. Usualy, hard rock on CDs sounds wartered down, the highs to crisp and the lows too vibrating. But the Toadies are so looked together, their riffs so hooky, the passages hammer out of the speekers. Frankly, I have not heard a rhythm section lock together like this other than Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchel; beleive me, I have heard a lot of rhythm sections

Get this. .


Pretty good.
o. I bought this for my 17 y. son. I have listened to it and it's pretty good. I especially like the song Possum Kingdom.


raw rock that pleases the ear
. words that can be understood, with a good solid bass player, and a guitar that wails.


Possum Kingdom and other Hard Dark Music
This is one of the few albums that I've introduced to friends and have sold them on. This is one of my favorite Albums of the 90's. Initially hooked with Possum Kingdom I bought the CD and immediately the rest of the album grew on me. Outside of Possum Kingdom the rest of the album remains largely obscure.

I find the album a bit harder edged than the grunge scene it surfaced in. It's loud and front man Todd Lewis' screeching leaves few songs unblasted. It can be a deal breaker for some. I loved it. If you really like "Possum Kingdom" then it's likely you'll be "all in" too. Of course a taste for a Harder edge grunge era rock will help.

The album itself has dark overtones and themes. Favorite songs of mine are "I Come from the Water", "Away", and of course "Possum Kingdom". A particular favorite of mine is the albums closing song, "I Burn". A haunting and momentum building song about the religious and almost sexually charged allure of fire to a pyromaniac. It builds to a great crescendo for both the song and the album. .


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