New Album: Lamont - Thunder Boogie

Lamont caught my eye with their humorous artwork: a seemingly white-trash man (sorry if that offends someone out there, but come on) with a pair of shotguns/rifles, a dog/pit bull in the background, and a cigarette hanging from his mouth. It made me chuckle, give the album a second look - quite the feat with my huge collection, and the 96 artists (and 358 albums, give or take a single or two) that are waiting in my 'Must Listen To' list - and then the album title, Thunder Boogie (ignore the second album at AllMusic, obviously that is for a different band), lead to a listen. So there is something in the title and artwork: Bands take heed!

I was initially quite impressed with Thunder Boogie; the first track, "Hot Wire," was a down-and-dirty rock n' roll song. It had my head bobbing right from the start, and my brain rattled by the end. It was followed by the slightly less-energetic "Vegas," which I had a really hard time deciding if I really enjoyed the song or not. I literally changed the ranking of this song four or five times, before settling on a '5 Star' ranking by the end of the fifth track on the album. That song was succeeded by "I Saw Red," an equal step-down in energy as it's predecessor was from the previous, but this time, much more well delivered. Right from the get-go I had something that was kicking my ass (even with the rough patches)!

Albums Listened To In February (48)

This month's list:

1. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
2. Bigelf - Cheat The Gallows
3. The Black Box Revelation - My Preception - New
4. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
5. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
6. Buddy Revell - Bring Forth The Snake (EP) - New
7. Cinder - Break Your Silence
8. Cinder - House Full of No Trust
9. Cirith Ungol - Frost And Fire - New
10. Cirith Ungol - King of The Dead - New
11. Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell - New
12. Cirith Ungol - Paradise Lost - New
13. Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge - New
14. Cloudkicker - Loop - New
15. Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West
16. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
17. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
18. Eluveitie - Helvetios - New
19. Enos - Chapter 1
20. EYE - Center of The Sun - New
21. Fifty Foot Woman - Fifty Foot Woman - New
22. Lou Reed - Rock 'N' Roll Animal
23. The J. Geils Band - The J. Geils Band - New
24. The J. Geils Band - "Live" Full House - New
25. The J. Geils Band - The Morning After - New
26. James Blunt - All The Lost Souls - New
27. James Blunt - Some Kind of Trouble - New
28. Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
29. Goblin Cock - Bagged And Boarded
30. Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want To Live
31. Mechanical Poet - Handmade Essence (EP)
32. Necromandus - Orexis of Death - New
33. Night Sun - Mournin' - New
34. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
35. Root Spirits - Long Road Ahead (EP)
36. S:T Erik - From Under The Tarn
37. sHEAVY - Blue Sky Mind
38. Sleestack - Altrusian Moon: A Lo-Fi Collection Of Psychedelia and Space Rock - New
39. Stonebride - Inner Seasons
40. Stonebride - Summon The Waves
41. Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards
42. Various Artists - The Wall Re-Built (2 Discs)
43. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico
44. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
45. Wench - Wench (EP) - New
46. Whores of Tijuana - Psycholongevity
47. Whores of Tijuana - Whores of Tijuana
48. Wino - Punctuated Equilibrium