Actually said “Hell yeah” when this one popped up for my first draw. What a way to start. I absolutely adore his 1985 Rain Dogs and have loved every random song I’ve heard but have somehow, as far as I can recall, never made any effort to listen to other albums. Which is the kinda thing this project should be great for! Fabulous “apocalypse gospel” feel to this. Stripped down percussive instrumentation for a slinky spooky sound. He uses 2 very different voices on The Earth Died Screaming to cool effect. Such a Scream is weirdly danceable. Whistling Down the Wind is just gorgeous. And the lyrics! Dirt in the Ground has “We’re chained to the world and we all gotta pull.” And Murder in the Red Barn has the deadpan “There’s always some killin’/You got to do around the farm.” The only one I’d ever heard before was “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up.” 5/5! Fantastic! Watch me draw some fuckin’ operatic soprano tomorrow!

Eh just not my thing. Not enough energy. Kept wanting it to turn into Blue Monday. Really liked the neat instrumental Pimpf tho, gonna add it to Halloween mix. Would give 3.5 if I could.

Well geez what is there to say about this masterpiece. Great voice, great songs. I had heard almost all of the songs but maybe mostly studio versions because I didn’t remember any of the stage patter except his intro before Folsom Prison Blues. His easy camaraderie with the prison audience was impressive. I loved when he cracked up when somebody applauded “I’d been in the arms of my best friend’s wife” in Long Black Veil. Some of the stuff I was wondering how he got AWAY with playing/saying at a prison. Like The Wall, which is a prison escape song(!) I mean, unsuccessful, but still. And at one point he was singing about the guards and laughs and says, “Them mean bastards, ain’t they?” I salute you, sir.

I only knew the title song so this was much ODDER than I was expecting, but cool! I especially liked "Beauty and the Beast" and "Blackout." Probably would have been a 4.5 if not for the streak of spacy noodly instrumentals. Even those I liked better than *most* spacy noodly instrumentals, but lord they did go ON.

I loved this! (I'm not sure about this cover. I hope intent is "way to be, awesome fat kid" but I have doubts.) Anyway just a groovalicious dance romp. Listened while lifting and that was perfect. Had only heard Right Here, Right Now (put to perfect ominous use in Veronica Mars) Rockefeller Skank, and of course Praise You. But dug all of them and didn't even mind that most of them were 6 minutes long. Also wiki'ed him and Fatboy Slim was in the HOUSEMARTINS?!? 5/5