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Personaggio passato spesso in secondo piano in campo musicale per via di atteggiamenti e idee sempre provocatorie, Ted Nugent è invece un grande rocker, selvaggio quanto basta per accontentare chi ama i suoni ruvidi e grezzi, almeno cosi' agli inizi.
Questo è il suo terzo album e a mio parere il suo capolavoro (benche' l'omonimo del '75 e "Free for all" del '76, non siano da meno). uscito nel 1977, in piena era punk, Nugent scarica sull'ascoltatore dieci brani di potente hard-rock-blues che in alcuni casi anticipano il nascente heavy metal.
Chitarrista ruvido e selvaggio, memorabili i suoi live dell'epoca, il disco si apre con quella "Cat scratch fever" (che anche i Motorhead coverizzeranno in "March or die" del '92) che entrera' nella storia.
Il disco è un continuo alternarsi di hard rock mischiato al blues piu' anfetaminico, dalla strumentale "Home bound" alle galoppate veloci di "Workin' hard, playin' hard" e " Fist fightin' son of a gun". Affiancato da Derek st. Holmes, Cliff Davies e Rob Grange, con questo album entra di diritto tra i grandi "incompresi" del rock. Dategli una possibilita' se ancora non lo conoscete.
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01 Cat Scratch Fever (03:40)
Well, I don't know where they come from but they sure do come
I hope they comin' for me
And I don't know how they do it but they sure do it good
I hope there doin' it for free
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
Well, the first time that I got it I was just ten years old
I got it from some kitty next door
An' I went to see the doctor and he gave me the cure
I think I got it some more
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
I got a bad scratch fever
The cat scratch fever
It's nothin' dangerous
I feel no pain
I've got the choo-choo train
You know you got it when you, you going insane
It makes a grown man cry, cry, oh won't you make my bed
Well, I make the pussy purr with the stroke of my hand
They know they gettin' it from me
They know just where to go when they need their lovin' man
They know I doin' it for free
I give them cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
They got a bad scratch fever
The cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
02 Wang Dang Sweet Poontang (03:16)
That Nadine, what a teenage queen
She come to town; she be foolin' around
She lookin' so clean, especi'lly down in between; what I like
It's all right
Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
a puttin' me down as a rock-and-roll clown
Wang dang, what a sweet poontang
a shakin' my thang as a rang-a-dang-dang in the bell
Down on the street you know she can't be beat
She's so sweet when she yanks on my meat
What the hell
Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
03 Death by Misadventure (03:31)
Hear him on the radio. See him on the news.
See him on the TV. Y’a hear him sing the blues,
Welcome to his nightmare He’s been through the mill.
Death by misadventure. A case of overkill.
He stayed awake ’til daylight, didn’t believe in health.
He never saw the sunrise, didn’t believe in wealth.
Wrote dramatic music, was a rollin’ stone.
No one understood him, they just left him alone.
Hear him on the radio. see him on the news.
See him on the tv, hear him sing the blues.
Welcome to his nightmare he’s been through the mill
Death by misadventure, a case of overkill.
Death by misadventure
Death by misadventure
Death by misadventure
Death by misadventure
Death by misadventure
Death by misadventure
Death by misadventure
death by misadventure
06 Workin' Hard, Playin' Hard (05:44)
Man started out with it in a cave;
They're runnin' home, nobody's safe.
Left with a note, all alone;
Only wanted to have a happy home.
Now it's my turn to show my stuff;
It's sometimes fun and sometimes rough.
I'm workin' hard to earn my way;
Well, lucky me, my work is play.
Workin' hard, playin' hard;
Helps me get thru each day and night.
Workin' hard, playin' hard;
Makes everything all right.
I'm here to sow my wild seed;
Out to ?? ?? is what I need.
Workin' hard, playin' hard;
Helps me get thru each day and night.
Workin' hard, playin' hard;
Makes everything all right.
(solo)
I'm here to sow my wild seed;
Out to ?? ?? is what I need.
Workin' hard, playin' hard;
Helps me get thru each day and night.
Workin' hard, playin' hard;
Makes everything all right.
08 A Thousand Knives (04:47)
You’ve been getting expend;
Scratching at my wall.
Suicidal misfit;
it’s time you took your fall.
I’ve ducked a lot but like a thousand knives;
their cutting into you babe.
It happens to you everyday.
I was just a schoolboy;
doing as I please.
Young girls in the classroom;
they was putting on the squeeze.
I’ve ducked a lot but like a thousand knives;
Their cutting into you babe.
It happens to you everyday.
I’ve ducked a lot but like a thousand knives;
Listen to what I say.
The time has come for you to pay.
Now I won’t listen to your two cents;
to run and hide is to run into yourself
A thousand knives, oh yea.
(solo)
Now your on the rebound;
you know just how it feels.
A copulated misfit;
with the good housekeeping seal.
I’ve ducked a lot but like a thousand knives;
Their cutting into you baby.
it happens to you everyday.
Now I won’t listen to your two cents;
to run and hide is to run into yourself.
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