The impossible-to-spell-without-using-the-spellcheck-function Bad Lieutenants are actually a resurrection of obscure 90’s Connecticut punk ‘n roll band The Chinks. Why? Dunno, but guitar player Steve Theriault was apparently some kind of serious bad-ass, and the original band imploded under the weight of his addictions and arrests. The BL’s are comprised of a gangpile of Boston-based razor-rockers (members of Fast Actin’ Fuses, Razorwire, The Freeze, Moving Targets, etc) bringing Steve’s reckless rock n’ roll vision back to screaming life. Musically it’s pretty ramshackle stuff, more punk than rock n’ roll, sorta like the Dwarves or Sloppy Seconds, complete with tongue-in-cheek lyrics about chicks and Jesus and booze sang with a woozy warble by Brian McCaffrey. The songs most definitely sound like vintage teenage beer party stuff, and will have you day-dreaming about tipsy high school girls with weekend Mohawks and torn fishnets puking in the parking lot of the YWCA. Or maybe that’s just me. At any rate, Theriault’s guitar shows flashes of guitar heroism here and there, especially on the minute-and-a-half of acid punk bliss “Fuckers”, but there’s a “1970-2005” dedication to him inside, so perhaps he’s dead now. So I dunno if you’re supposed to laugh or cry over this one. Maybe it’s a tribute. I guess it’s your call, really.
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-Sleazegrinder