Big Cock-Motherload

Driver Wild Music
2007

My problems with Big Cock's debut "Year of the cock" were that the vocals sounded tired, the music was generic and somewhat flat, the production made it sound like a demo tape and the lyrics were silly and lame. Their second album which was self-titled saw a definite improvement in the production and slight improvement in the vocals, but it was still a rather weak effort considering that vocalist Robert Mason (Lynch Mob, Cry of Love) and guitarist David Henzerling (King Kobra, Lizzy Borden) had been decent performers in most of their previous projects. Those albums seem to just be centered around the big oh so hilarious joke of their band name and the lyrical theme of "we have penises and we like to talk about them a lot".
So the big question for me going into this album was is it any better than the other two? After several plays, I will say that indeed this is a much improved album. Mason's vocals are extremely powerful and almost always spot on with everything he attempts here. The band obviously took a different musical approach and they choose AC/DC as a basic model. Not anything new, but they bring their own touches as well plus the playing is certainly far tighter than the previous two albums. The music meshes together and the pace changes are fairly fluid. I have absolutely no complaints about the production because it certainly is sharp in every possible way that it could be. Now I am afraid that the lyrics are the same old juvenile rot yet everything is else is so much improved that it doesn't matter that much. It's very much sounds like it could have been done around 1990 due to the style, but it's overall a likable album with minimum baggage. So I would say that this album would appeal to fans of AC/DC, Rhino Bucket, Bullet Boys and King Kobra.



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