Zodiac Mindwarp - Tattooed Beat Messiah (1988)

grimniggzy · August 20, 2012, 10:42:28 PM

Just download it NOW!
http://sleazeglamhard.blogspot.com/2008/05/zodiac-mindwarp-tattooed-beat-messiah.html

frobbert · August 22, 2012, 10:32:33 AM

Novelty act

grimniggzy · August 22, 2012, 11:56:11 AM

How dare you talk that way about my Sleaze Metal!

GodShifter · August 22, 2012, 12:29:07 PM

Dude, I used to own this album cuz I bought it on CD when it came out. Seems like it was one of the first ones I bought? Yeah, I dunno, maybe.

I remember the tune "Prime Mover" or something like that ... and the songs (or at least one) would start out with some kind of poetry or something ... vague recollections from a foggy brain.

That said, I'd like to hear this again for humor/nostalgia sake.

GodShifter · August 22, 2012, 12:31:37 PM

Hah, it helps if one (me) looked at the track listing you provided

Yeah, it was "Wolfchild Speech" that started out before "Prime Mover". I'm grabbing this. Thanks.

kippled · August 22, 2012, 02:21:25 PM

Yeah, that Wolfchild Speech is the funniest thing on the album. Defy the logic of alphabets, hell yeah dude. Has anybody read that "Fucked by Rock" book that he wrote? Really comes off as a sleazy dumbass, so yeah, its pretty great in it's own way.

frobbert · August 23, 2012, 03:57:13 PM

Quote from: grimniggzy on August 22, 2012, 11:56:11 AM
How dare you talk that way about my Sleaze Metal!

It's neither metal nor sleaze

Lumpy · August 25, 2012, 06:44:41 AM

I liked it at the time, as an antidote to boring shit like REM and other weak "alternative" stuff that you'd see on MTV. Not living in the UK, I didn't have to be confronted with whatever hype they got, and I could just enjoy it as a fun/funny hard rock record, somewhat in the same vein as The Cult "Electric" and so on. Some filler on this, but I recall about half the songs being good, which is a higher-than-average ratio for commercial rock.

frobbert · August 25, 2012, 05:00:08 PM

Meh, I was mostly into thrash and hardcore then, and the more experimental/borderline hard rock bands (King's X, Masters of Reality, Jane's Addiction etc..). Prime Mover is an OK tune but it's enough. Overall I think Crazy Horses by The Osmonds and the first Bad News album are better novelty hard rock records (because that's what this is any way you slice it, they were a joke band)

lftwng4 · September 04, 2012, 05:21:50 PM

I've got High Priest of Love and it's pretty terrible. Novelty act indeed. It's unfortunate that the vinyl isn't worth anything, 'cause mine was only played a couple of times. Didn't BoogieMama really like them or something?

Baltar · November 07, 2012, 03:22:21 PM

Haggis was in that band, after he played bass for The Cult and then went on to the 4 Horsemen.