''Bull'' is the second album by the Canadian band
Bootsauce
Bootsauce was a Juno Award-winning Canadian rock band based in Montreal. The band was composed of Drew Ling (real name Drew Thorpe) (vocals), Pere Fume (real name Perry Johnson) (guitar), Sonny Greenwich Jr. (guitar), Alan Baculis (bass guitar), ...
, released in 1992. "Love Monkey #9", "Whatcha' Need" and "Big, Bad & Groovy" were released as singles. The album was nominated for a
Juno Award, in the "Best Album Design" category.
Production
The album was produced by
Michael Jonzun
Michael Jonzun is a musician and music producer. His specialty genres are electro, electronic dance, and electrofunk.
Born in Florida, he formed the Jonzun Crew in Boston with Steve Thorpe and Gordy Worthy. In the early 1980s, the group recor ...
and the band. Bootsauce shared in the songwriting.
[ "Love Monkey #9" is about animal testing on non-human primates. "Big Bad & Groovy" employs a horn section. Lemmy sang on "Hold Tight".
]
Critical reception
'' The Gazette'' noted that "there is more of everything—sex, danceability, power chords, smooth balladry, samples, with singer Drew Ling's insinuating voice living up to its owner's name." ''The Globe and Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...
'' wrote: "Bootsauce bounds all over the musical map, mulching early Pink Floyd sci-fi rock with Public Enemy-styled rapping ('Touching Cloth'), emulating Extreme on the ballad 'What Cha' Need', resurrecting Dr. John on the New Orleans-styled 'Dog Pound', and paying tribute to Sly and the Family Stone." The '' Edmonton Journal'' determined that "assertive hard rock lays the foundation for snippets of soul falsetto, New Orleans gumbo and busy, Frank Zappa-ish orchestration."
Track listing
All songs were written by Bootsauce
Bootsauce was a Juno Award-winning Canadian rock band based in Montreal. The band was composed of Drew Ling (real name Drew Thorpe) (vocals), Pere Fume (real name Perry Johnson) (guitar), Sonny Greenwich Jr. (guitar), Alan Baculis (bass guitar), ...
, except where noted.
# "Love Monkey #9" – 3:25
# "Touching Cloth" – 3:42
# "Whatcha' Need" – 5:09
# "Big Bad & Groovy" – 4:08
# "Dogpound" – 3:35
# "Outhouse Quake" – 4:23
# "The 13th Psalm" – 4:30
# "Misunderstood" – 3:46
# "Rollercoaster's Child" (Willy Beck, Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Pierce, Clarence Satchel, James Williams) – 3:31
# "I Saw You There" – 4:04
# "The Whole of You" – 4:01
# "Bad Dinner" – 3:45
# "Hold Tight" – 4:15
Personnel
* Drew Ling (vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...
)
* Pere Fume (guitar
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)
* Sonny Greenwich, Jr. (guitar
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)
* Alan Baculis ( bass)
* John Lalley (as Johnny Frappe) ( drums)
* Lemmy (guest vocals on 'Hold Tight')
References
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Bootsauce albums
1992 albums
PolyGram albums