King Missile
Happy Hour
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AMG Review of Happy Hour
Ned Raggett
All Music GuideWith this King Missile found themselves with a fluke hit, thanks to the knowingly idiotic "Detachable Penis." It's not quite the "My Ding-a-Ling" of its time, but it did get airplay, MTV coverage, and the like, Hall telling a sad tale of waking up in the morning, finding the titular organ missing, and then having to search for it, all while pondering the benefits and flaws of having a detachable penis in the first place. Thanks to a catchy arrangement via Rick's clipped, stuttered guitar riff and the sweetly sung title phrase in the background, the result is giddy left-field nonsense. Due in part to the return of Kramer to production -- or in this case co-production -- duties, along with a slew of more immediately memorable songs, Happy Hour trumps The Way to Salvation as the peak of the band's high-profile days, an inspired collection of tunes ranging from deranged pop to full-on epic metal stomp. It's the blessed liveliness of the whole album -- at a premium in the days of full-on grunge when it came out, still rare enough years later -- that makes it stand up so well. "Martin Scorcese," an on-the-edge celebration of the director in question, has Hall threatening him with physical violence, so appreciative a fan is he, the music snaking along with a psych//p>
ew wave bite (no, really!). Highlights of Hall's vocal turns this time out: from "It's Saturday," "I want to be different/Like everyone else"; from the mock classic rock love anthem "Take Me Home," "You're the one who knows my whole life is a pathetic sham." In all, the merry feeling of the songs, spiked with the solid playing of the individual members, proves again to be King Missile's ace in the hole, making Happy Hour -- which is indeed literally an hour long -- the entertaining listen it is.
Lad's And Beaut's, Now a Word From Dick...
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I woke up this morning with a bad hangoverAnd my penis was missing againThis happens all the timeIt's detachableThis comes in handy a lot of the timeI can leave it home when I think it's going to get me in troubleOr I can rent it out when I don't need itBut now and then I go to a partyGet drunkAnd the next morning I can't for the life of me Remember what I did with itFirst I looked around my ap...
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Ahhhh, Berkeley days....
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So, I've been on this TV reminiscence mission. This is random, very windy, circuitous, of logic. BUT - I had my sister ready my MOG-posts re: our childhood TV watching. She loved it. And she reminded me that on those Sunday afternoons and afterschool when we would watch the Bugaloos, Giggle-snort hotel, Land of the Lost, or Brady Bunch and Monkeys reruns we were not allowed sweet, greasy, or cr...
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Removable Genitals.
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I would really like to be John S. Hall, the guy who wrote Detachable Penis, or at least hang out with him. Can you just imagine how much action that guy gets, and besides all that you can't write a song chockabok full of that much awesome with being a really cool guy. I can see the conversation now..."Hey baby, I wrote Detachable Penis. We make sex now, yes?""OMG TEH SEXXAY!!!"And no, I don't k...
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Huh…he said penis
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This had to be one of the most retarded songs ever written. But still remains one of those odd stand out songs of my 90's youth. It still cracks me up every time I hear it.
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