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Sweet Sixteen (Royal Trux Album)
''Sweet Sixteen'' is an album by Royal Trux, released in 1997. It is their only album not released as an Long player, LP. The album is the second of the band's trilogy paying homage to the music of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Virgin Records was so upset with the album that it paid Royal Trux around $300,000 in order to terminate their recording contract. Critical reception ''Spin (magazine), Spin'' described the album as "lots of '70s dirtbag boogie, guitar noodling, and barroom jamathons." ''Trouser Press'' wrote: "A compromise between the (relatively) straight-ahead rock structures of their Virgin debut and the mayhem preceding it, ''Sweet Sixteen'' still reveals moments of genius embedded in the mess of guitars, death-rattle vocals and tortured synthesizers." The ''Chicago Reader'' wrote that ''Sweet Sixteen'' is "as grossly unlistenable as ''Twin Infinitives'' but lacks that album's surreal queerness, with the gruesome twosome and this year's rhythm section spitting up half-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Trux
Royal Trux was an American alternative rock band active from 1987 to 2001, reuniting in 2015 but disbanded once again in 2019. It was founded by Neil Hagerty (vocals, guitar) and Jennifer Herrema (vocals). History While still a teenager, Hagerty joined Washington D.C. garage punk band Pussy Galore, led by Jon Spencer, and subsequently relocated to New York. During his time in there, Hagerty convinced his bandmates to release a cassette-only remake of the entire Rolling Stones album ''Exile on Main Street''. While he gained underground notoriety for his work with Pussy Galore, Hagerty reportedly viewed it as a job and intended to pursue his own artistic vision with his girlfriend, Jennifer Herrema, under the name Royal Trux. Hagerty and Herrema released their first album, ''Royal Trux'', in 1988. After moving to San Francisco, Royal Trux released the experimental double-album ''Twin Infinitives.'' After ''Twin Infinitives'', Royal Trux released an untitled album (sometimes refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |