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The Reverend Horton Heat

Sax

08:01 / 09.04.03

About ten years ago, maybe more, I bought a Sub Pop sampler which had a fantastic track on it by Reverend Horton Heat called Revolution Come and Gone.

I dug the CD out a couple of days ago and was amazed by the freshness and wonderfulness of this track. Dark, brooding, menacing, with a gravelly almost spoken-word vocal track and a guitar line that begins as a gentle strum and builds into a wild crescendo.

I've never bought anything else by the good Reverend for fear that it just wouldn't match up to the glory of Revolution Come and Gone, but now curiosity is getting the better of me. Anyone got any suggestions or advice?

bio k9

10:09 / 09.04.03

Is Revolution Come and Gone the name of the song? Or was the song called Marijuana (and on the Revolution Come and Gone sampler album)?

Sax

10:43 / 09.04.03

The sampler was certainly called Revolution Come and Gone. I'd assumed the song was too, as that was the refrain. Hang on, maybe the song wasn't by Reverend Horton Heat at all. Fuck.

bio k9

10:56 / 09.04.03

Probably Calvin then.

bio k9

11:03 / 09.04.03

Revoluion Come and Gone is on Dreamy. So is Redhead Walking. Mmmmmm.

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Sax

11:42 / 09.04.03

Beat Happening! Yes, I knew that! Fuck, my brain is bombed. Okay, from the top once more, but please replace Reverend Horton Heat with Beat Happening. Thank you bioK9.

01:50 / 12.04.03

The Reverend Horton Heat is rockabilly. Pretty good rockabilly, from what I've heard, but not too similar to Beat Happening.

bjacques

21:57 / 13.04.03

Reverend Horton Heat is kickass rockabilly from Dallas. Treat it as serendipity and check out a few songs by him, like $400 Car, Bales of Cocaine, or damn near anything else by him.

Hieronymus

22:52 / 13.04.03

I love the Reverend. Been into him for ages as it's music my father grew up playing spun through a gorgeous punk angle. I highly recommend Spend A Night in the Box, his second-too-last album, if anyone hasn't bought him before. Solid all the way through.

And he's incredibly toe-tapping good in the flesh

grant

14:45 / 16.04.03

A friend of mine saw him at a club in Orlando. My friend had a baby Jesus one of his friends had taken from a front-yard nativity display. The Reverend baptized that baby Jesus with beer.

I saw him at a show in Ft. Lauderdale. I now own a certified Reverend Horton Heat Shop Rag Prayer Cloth. I've used it to clean my guitar.

I also used to sing "Loaded Gun" in public.

"My left hand holds a vial of tranquilizers. My right hand holds a loaded thirty-eeeeiiiiigggghhhht...."

That's a bad situation, man.

I think there should be a separate Beat Happening/Calvin Johnson thread.

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