MURDER
DOLLS 'Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls' .
(Roadrunner)
As if they haven’t been hyped up enough over the past couple months
here I come to add my two cents worth to the fuss getting kicked up over
the Murderdolls. Its kinda difficult to review this cos by now all
the lazy ‘Will the Slipknot fans like it?’ angles have been
snapped up and done to death by every hack on Roadrunner’s
payroll. All the ‘new direction’ and ‘commercial liability’speculation
is a bit like trying to read the deep, hidden meaning of poncey French
sub-titled cinema into what is basically the aural equivalent of a low-budget
‘tits-lesbian zombies-tomato ketchup’ style B-movie. All you
really need to know is that this is a spot on piece of throwaway genius.
The utterly infectious chorus to ‘Grave Robbing USA’ while you
love it now will almost certainly drive you insane in 6 months and this
definitely sound dated in 10years time, hell, it even sounds dated now,
with 80’s Motley influences a go-go worn unashamedly on its sparkly
spandex sleeve. This is a band who with calls for ‘geetar’,
accompanied by the customary widdly solo are desperately unfashionable,
they’re not out to make a piece of art or a chart-topping product,
just have a great party on record in the time honoured tradition of Poison,
with name-drops to Psycho and The Exorcist and lyrics about necrophilia
and murder this ain’t high-brow angst, and thanking fucking Christ
- this is a band who aren’t trying to be ‘cool’! If we’re
honest this wouldn’t have caught a sniff of hype or even interest
among the music press were it not for the Slipknot connection but so fucking
what - stop analysing and just enjoy this brilliant flash in the pan before
we’re all bored of it and have moved on anyway. Pour yourself and
cliched Jack and Coke and just *try* to not headbang, horns aloft, to
the stomping likes of ‘Die My Bride’, ‘197666’ and
the Dee Snider saluting ‘Twist My Sister’.
/Alison.
