If the
Eagles of Death Metal
were even less capable of keeping a straight face, or if the Adult Swim cartoon
Metalocalypse
ever wanted to record a real-world album equivalent to
Danger Doom
's
The Mouse and the Mask
, the results would undoubtedly be quite similar to
Dirty Rig
's second album. Unapologetically goofy and juvenile lyrics ("the ruling class is puking up all over you" is one of the many priceless lines, this one from the title track) are set to good-humored
metal
riffs that are beholden to no particular subgenre. Bits of old-school
from
Lynyrd Skynyrd
's Southern-fried
boogie
to
Motoerhead
's proto-
hardcore
can be heard here, but originality isn't really the point. (Everyone from
R. Stevie Moore
April Wine
has already done the
"If You See Kay"
joke, but it's always good for a junior-high snigger.)
call their style "beer
," and it's hard to imagine a more descriptive term for
Rock Did It
. It's music for the high school hesher who lives inside us all. ~ Stewart Mason