Track Listing

1. Celebrate Your Mother
2. Chicken
3. Whack Of Shit
4. Psychosis Safari
5. Giant Bones
6. Fishfingers
7. Charge The Guns
8. Morning Has Broken
9. Team Meat
10. Presidential Wave

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6277 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 25 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Clocking in a 25 minutes and 22 seconds, Horse of the Dog--the debut album from Brighton noiseniks The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster--is the very definition of a short, sharp shock: 10 tracks of violent gutter-blues punk-rock that steams in with the raw, primal power of the Birthday Party or the Cramps, and steams out without outstaying its welcome. Although lumped in with their peers the Parkinsons and Ikara Colt, if anything, The Eighties Matchbox peddle an even more extreme, gruesome brand of rock music.

All the same, there's much to recommend here: frontman Guy McKnight's sinister preacher-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown vocals; crude guitar roar that sounds like a chainsaw snagging on jagged bone; and a purple-velvet swing that belies the band's terrifying volume. Thematically, the songs encompass oppressive sexual relationships, unnatural family ties, a contempt for arrogant rock star attitude, and a peculiar fascination with--or is it revulsion of?--raw meat. But when the tunes come--and they do, on the sordid "Celebrate Your Mother" and the snake-hipped "Morning Has Broken"--everything falls nastily into place. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
Brighton based five piece the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster release their debut album 'Horse Of The Dog'. The albumis a mix of lead singer, Guy McKnight's bluesy vocals, backed with noisy, Stooges like punk rock. The band have been compared to various artists including The Birthday Party and The Fall. The single, the live favourite 'Celebrate Your Mother' is also included.

Customer Reviews

A Proper Rock Battering
There simply isn't enough good to say about this record. If you are getting a little tired of the poppy nu metal and generally softer rock that the USA produces so well, then get your listening gear around this and let the Brighton based rockers show you how it is done.

From the first bars of 'Celebrate your Mother' the band carry you off on a twisted tour of everything you never expect but come to miss immediately the record finishes. At only 25 minutes long it seems like a bit of short changing has occoured, but rest assured you will listen again & again.

Should you be thinking twice about paying for it, then don't. If you want to have your soul shaken by rock, buy it now. Right now.

Loud, mean and full of energy
It's not background music. You must play this album up LOUD. It rocks it's heart out and makes the blood flow faster and harder. Don't listen if you've got high blood pressure, this could be all it takes to throw you over the edge.

Fast and furious. Head shaking mental music that makes me feel ALIVE and briliant.

I love it. It's an essential for anyones CD collection - even if you aren't into harder music - you should still own it - as a conversation piece - to help open your mind to the limitless possibilities there are in music.

Ace!
Whatever you've read about this band is probably true. They are great and this album is a worthy and mighty purchase. It lasts 25 minutes but that's a good thing. No fillers, no pointless remixes and no syrupy ballads just shouty preacher man vocals and mad guitars. If you want a reference point look to the riffs of Joy Division and the sheer bedlam that was the Birthday Party and early Nick Cave. A great mix of black humour and noise. Stop looking at this review and just buy the damn thing!