Mike Watt / Ball-Hog Or Tugboat?
Artist Mike Watt
Album Title: Ball-Hog Or Tugboat?
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Primary Genre Rock: General Rock
Format CD
Released 02/28/1995
Label Columbia/Sony
Catalog No CK 66464
Bar Code No 0 7464-66464-2 7
Packaging Digibook
Tracks
1. Big Train (3:21)
2. Against The 70's (3:28)
3. Drove Up From Pedro (4:32)
4. Piss-Bottle Man (3:16)
5. Chinese Firedrill (3:25)
6. Intense Song For Madonna To Sing (3:05)
7. Tuff Gnarl (3:10)
8. Sexual Military Dynamics (2:39)
9. Max And Wells (3:10)
10. E-Ticket Ride (4:27)
11. Forever - One Reporter's Opinion (3:40)
12. Song For Igor (2:46)
13. Tell 'Em, Boy! (3:29)
14. Sidemouse Advice (3:31)
15. Heartbeat (5:34)
16. Maggot Brain (12:05)
17. Coincidence Is Either Hit Or Miss (2:20)
Date Acquired 07/11/2008
Personal Rating
Acquired from Electric Fetus - Duluth
Purchase Price 6.29

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Special Digibook packaging with two booklets and all sorts of fancy fancy.

For his first solo album, Mike Watt assembled a different band for each track, creating a veritable who's-who of post-punk and alternative rock - Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, Thurston Moore, J. Mascis, Frank Black, Evan Dando, Dave Pirner, Henry Rollins, Flea, Lee Ranaldo, Mike D, and Pat Smear all appear, among others. Predictably, the sound is somewhat schizophrenic, but no more so than the average Minutemen album. Ball-Hog or Tugboat? is more polished than anything the Minutemen released, yet looser than fIREHOSE, filled with jazz-inflected breaks and sheer sonic freakouts, but dominated by a surprisingly large number of pop songs. On the power-pop rush of "Piss-Bottle Man," Dando sings with more emotion than on most Lemonheads records, and "Chinese Fire Drill" shows an effective folky side to Watt's music. And Watt's own vocals on "Big Train" are as big-hearted, sly and funny as the album itself.

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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

For his first solo album, Mike Watt assembled a different band for each track, creating a veritable who's who of post-punk and alternative rock -- Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, Thurston Moore, J Mascis, Frank Black, Evan Dando, Dave Pirner, Henry Rollins, Flea, Lee Ranaldo, Mike D, and Pat Smear all appear, among others. Predictably, the sound is somewhat schizophrenic, but no more so than the average Minutemen album. Ball-Hog or Tugboat? is more polished than anything the Minutemen released, yet looser than fIREHOSE, filled with jazz-inflected breaks and sheer sonic freakouts, but dominated by a surprisingly large number of pop songs. On the power pop rush of "Piss-Bottle Man," Dando sings with more emotion than on most Lemonheads records, and "Chinese Fire Drill" shows an effective folky side to Watt's music. And Watt's own vocals on "Big Train" are as big-hearted, sly, and funny as the album itse
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