''Musical Monkey'' is the fourth
album
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by the
Huntington Beach, California
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,
punk rock band
Guttermouth, released in 1997 by
Nitro Records
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.
The album peaked at No. 44 on ''Billboards
Heatseekers Albums
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chart.
Critical reception
The ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' determined that Guttermouth's "ridicule of gays, animal-rights zealots, punk rock factionalists and sundry other targets is so over-the-top and scattershot that it obviously is just a prank against social rectitude, an emission not of seething malice but of junior-high-level perversity ... This approach robs Guttermouth of any real satiric bite (which would require moral outrage to buttress the foolery), but the band's raunchy humor in the service of knuckleheadedness does bring some guilty titters."
[ The '' Illawarra Mercury'' opined that the band "are masters of the somewhat difficult art of combining social commentary with outrageous satire, and putting it to music that's hard, fast and strangely melodic for punk."
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wrote: "From Orange County comes a band that reflects all the worst aspects of the Orange County punk scene." ''OC Weekly
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'' deemed the album one of the band's "seminal OC punk records," writing that it "watermark the time and place as well as anything put out during that era." '' Cincinnati CityBeat'' called "Lipstick" "a vindictive, twisted song—and also weirdly compelling and memorable."
Track listing
All songs written by Guttermouth
Performers
*Mark Adkins - vocals
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*Scott Sheldon - guitar
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*Eric "Derek" Davis - guitar
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*Steve "Stever" Rapp - bass
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*James Nunn (aka Captain James T. Nunn) - drums
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Album information
*Record label: Nitro Records
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*Recorded at Westbeach Recorders
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It was established in 1985 by Bad Religion g ...
by Donnell Cameron Donnell Cameron is a record producer known for his work with Sublime, Blink-182, and Avenged Sevenfold. He owned a recording studio, Westbeach Recorders, in Hollywood, California.
Production
In 1991, Cameron produced the debut album for Drive Like ...
*Mixed at Wesbteach Recorders by Donnell Cameron and Guttermouth
*Mastered by Eddie Schrayer at Oasis Mastering
References
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Guttermouth albums
Nitro Records albums
1997 albums