Album Reviews
TEXAS
TERRI BOMB!
"Your Lips…My Ass!"
(TKO)
It's good to hear an old-fashioned punk rock
record once in a while. Not that hyphenated punk is necessarily a bad thing, but
an album like "Your Lips…My Ass!" that all about aggression and a bad
attitude, with just enough melody to keep things interesting, can be a
refreshing change from micromanaged niche-punk. The leather-lunged Texas Terri's
most obvious predecessor is the infamous Tex of Tex & the Horseheads, though
Terri can at least carry a tune far enough to beat the shit out of it. With
guests including Dwarves/Motochrist string-slasher Marc Diamond, Runaways
frontwoman Cherrie Currie and the great Wayne Kramer, you already know tunes
like "Dirty Action," "Mafia" and a take on Thin Lizzy's "The Rocker" are gonna
burn the speakers down, and that's pretty much Terri's policy for the entire
record: scorch the earth and piss on the ashes later. Michael
Toland [buy it]