Search - Naked & Shameless :: Drink, Fight, Fuck

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Mojo Milhouse | Tarzana, CA | 08/04/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Anybody who saw the 2006 NoFi tour will remember these songs from those shows. These studio version provide a great little nugget for anyone who was there. And what an introduction for the un-initiated! And the Radiohead cover is hysterical...



The illustration spread inside the insert also drives the point (hedonism) home. Attibuted to Rev. Razor X (that name rings a bell but I can't place it), draws in a style that's one part Winston Smith (a la Bedtime For Democracy) and one part Crumb."

One of the best short CDs I've heard in years.

Karl | Butt Town | 08/05/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The "single" is kind of a dead art form. Or maybe it's just MIA. But Naked & Shameless' 3-song Drink, Fight, F*ck is one of those perfect slices. That is, if you're into their hybrid "drunkabilly" style. "Drunkabilly" describes the visual asthetic pretty well, and while uptempo-country-roots-rock music is what's being played here, the other off-the-wall influences that dominate much of their other work are not that far from hand... Their "two-step" version of Radiohead's "Creep" is a truly inspired bit of lunacy, but Buck Naked's gruff country-by-way-of-the-bar "outlaw" exterior seems to be harboring an inner pop diva with broadway aspirations. Yes, it's that weird.



The title track has the feel of the heartland, but it's also of the sea (Mr. Naked has said in interviews that he was a pirate before piracy was cool); ultimately the track is tied together by a sudden psychobilly burst that justifies the rest of the schizophrenia.



Between these two songs sits "The Ballad Of The Trucking Nun", a fairly straight ahead story-song in the tradition of Marty Robbins, or more obviously, Johnny Cash. But it's lewd, of course, and funny in its juxtaposition of sacred and profane.



In all, a short, sweet statement of purpose. For my money, it doesn't get much better than that."