Saturday, September 14, 2024
Released on Goner Records
Rating: 69 out of 69 stars
This months’ subject of the Vinyl Word gets the highest rating I have ever given in an album review — yes, the fabled 69 out of 69 rating.
Why such a high rating, you ask? My answer, I have never been so enthused to write a record review as this one.
Maybe consider this not a review, but a figurative double-barrel blast heralding of not the album of the year, but the most fun/party album of the year.
Since art isn’t a competition no need to deem one album or another as album of the year. With that being said, candiadates for album of the year in 2023 would have to be the new albums by Gee Tee, Tyler Keith & the Apostles, Cheater Slicks, Timmy’s Organism and Mudhoney.
No argument necessary for Goodnight Neanderthal being party album of the year.
I’m issuing a 100% guarantee that playing this album will energize, improve and greatly enhance the party satisfaction of all those in attendance. If I would hear a report of this album not delivering these promises, I’m sure with a little investigation I would discover that this party was held in a morgue.
Do you love rock’n‘roll? Then this album is for you.
Do you love to jump up and down to super great rock’n‘roll albums? Then this album is for you.
Do you love catchy, crunchy, fuzzy, up-tempo, garage-punk rock’n‘roll with keyboards? Then this album is for you.
I’ll never forget when a customer of the late great The Exclusive Company was talking to me about what a monster of an album Don’t Say No by Billy Squire was the year it came out. The customer mentioned you could not go to a party that year without hearing it played.
I had to take his word for that, because in 1981 I was a freshman in high school who was not allowed or being invited to any parties.
It’s now 2023, and I can’t say I have been to a party this year but I would like to assume that if I did, Goodnight Neanderthal would have been played.
I bring up Billy Squire and, although Gee Tee does not sound like the person who ruled the party scene in 1981 in the slightest, trust me, these are both equally monster albums.
Yesterday I heard WAPL play “Mother” by Danzig which was cool, but it would have been a lot cooler if I had heard them play “(I Hate) Drivin In The City” (my favorite track on Goodnight Neanderthal and a song that should have peaked in the Top 10 on the Billboard chart in America).
Other tracks that, in a perfect world, would also be hit singles are “Within the Walls,” “Stuck Down,” “Cell Damage,” the title track, “40k,” “Bad Egg” and “Heart-Throb.”
If only the Ed Sullivan show was still around, because one appearance by this Australian powerhouse and it would be Beatlemania all over again.
I was very fortunate to see Gee Tee in Memphis last year at Gonerfest 19 and was blown away by them.
That was the moment my love affair with them started.
I knew nothing about them, and many times an introduction to a band live for the first time is a special kind of magic.
I was so happy that Goodnight Neanderthal lives up to the super high bar Gee Tee set for themselves in my mind on that beautiful late summer night in Memphis.
I have already numerous times made it clear to Gee Tee that the next time they come back to the United States, Green Bay is ready, willing and able to set them up.
Goodnight Neanderthal is currently between pressings, so you might momentarily have trouble finding a physical copy, but the next party you are at this summer, please consider using your mobile device to deliver the gospel of Gee Tee to your fellow party goers.
Hope to see you all at the GBUFO Fest that is running July 21-23 at GBASO, Frets and Friends, Badger State Brewing Company, the Green Bay UFO Museum Gift Shop and Records and On the Rocks Saloon.
Stop by the GBUFO please for more info.
