Bad Luck Baby Put The Jinx on Me

No Tomorrow Boys

Hound Gawd Records, 2014

This is an overlooked gem from my seriously cluttered In-box. But we here at Indie Music-dot-C-O, are a one man outfit mostly, so WE are seriously undermanned most days.

This said, I freakin’ love this disc.

Oily, greasy, slippery, and you know, generally bad for ya. So this is like the audio version of salty, fried food. Only gluten free and covered in Velveeta.

Slippery, slithery and hard to get a handle on. Think Gene Vincent weaned on the MC5, Bad Brains and gallons of Cuban coffee. Seriously, there’s a great jittery, unsteady quality like if you took a Buddy Holly 33, played it at 45, took a pencil and poked the speaker full of holes, well just because you could, it’d be a lot like this and worth the ass kicking you’d get from your old man when he get’s home and sees what the hell you did to his vintage Bose he’s been taking such good care of all these years.

About halfway through listening to ‘Bad Luck Baby Put The Jinx on Me’, you get the impression this is what The Misfits (original line-up) were shooting for when they wrote “American Nightmare.” “I Want a Lot (Not a Little),” “Rovin’ Man Blues,” and “Teen Age Vice” are all straight forward, unpretentious, and as American as a big block Chevy, aimless road trips and making long term plans with girls in tube tops you just met.

No Tomorrow Boys got their musical references straight and attack these songs with a demented fury that’s impressive.

Put this on and get your head straight.