Motherfucker 666 (Get Hip Records)

 The punkily-named Motherfucker 666 was a 1996 punk rock "super-group" made up of the infamous Jeff Dahl (guitar/vocals), Keith Telligman (bass/vocals) and Allan Clark (drums) from the Lazy Cowgirls and Mike Metoff (Ike Knox) of the Pagans/Cramps and numerous others. Despite the name and the members' pedigrees, the music, while obviously punk, is not as over the top maniacal as one might expect. Some of it is downright poppy, if I dare say so!

Everyone but Allan sings (which is funny since he sings regularly in all of his other groups) and there's a mix of high energy originals and some truly interestingly hip covers. The cover has minimal liner notes, but Jeff obviously sings lead on a majority of the numbers, also Keith and Mike get their chances and they even thrown in a semi-surf-intro in "Blues Theme From Teengenerate vs Godzilla"! The Kinks' "Celluloid Heroes" is given the 666 treatment, as is the Stooges "Head On" (giving it a bit more coherence than the Metallic KO version) and Zaida (Zebra Stripes) joins in for their rockin' take on the Crystals' "Then He Kissed Me".

Fans of any of these cats other bands would be sure to dig this one. Don't know how available it is any more, but search it out - it's a keeper!