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Cosmic Psychos are a noisy punk rock band from Melbourne Australia.....these boys seem to have been around since the dawn of time (1982 )....and have been credited as the fathers of grunge....basically being noted as major inspiration from all the major players of that so called genre including Kurt Cobain, Buzz Osbourne, Donita Sparks, and Eddie Vedder.....i have to say that personally out of all of those i REALLY see the influence of these guys in the music of L7 overall....


my basic review of these guys is loud, drunk distorted bass lines mixed with insane wah effects on guitar.....i have to say that these guys are more of a strait forward rock and more influence of the wonderful sounds to come but i still love this shit and it deserves you fucking attention!

their first official release was in 1985 and they've released at least 13 albums and a bunch of EPs on several different labels including the infamous Sub Pop and the glorious Amphetamine Reptile labels.....reading about them now i guess they actually started a genre called Yob Rock which celebrates the Australian males way of life....seriously if any Aussies here read this i would love an explanation of this!

as far as i can tell this means lots of drinking, dead roos, more drinking, s+m relations, another beer, shooting at the neighbor animals, a drink, and the occasional mental break down due to drinking....some boning and a beer before bed.....and lets not forget about the rabbits!

for whatever reason this band never really got the world wide acclaim i feel they deserve....i mean its great fuzzed out rock with clever and often funny lyrics....maybe a bit crass but fuck CeLoo Green made himself famous by writing a song called Fuck You....i don't know maybe the world market hears this stuff and realizes that Australians should be feared and respect....personally i think they sound like a fucking blast!....for my review i'm going with their amazing and practically perfect 6th release from 1995 Self Totalled


as i said this is pretty straight forward rock with great lyrics....so in all honesty its kind of hard to review it....at least in they way i have been....not a bad song on here i suggest listening to the couple of tracks i could dig up on youtube, running to the store and picking up a case of your favorite brew, drink them all while playing this entire album very loud over and over again, and then punching holes in neighbors walls while they cower in the corner calling the cops on their cell phones!

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opening track is called Bullet which as far as i can tell is basically about getting drunk and killing some chic...."talk about bullets baby i go three, thats two for you and thats one for me!"...this is a great opening track and will basically set up the entire fell of the next hazy 35 minutes of you life
the next track Shot The Cat is a hilarious little track about getting sick of the neighbors cat pissing all over your stuff...esp the damn beer fridge....and even includes some pretty awesome guitar effects made to sound like a dying cat!....then we go straight into what could easily be many of our theme songs!.....The Man Who Drank To Much
"another round and i'm on the ground, i raise my glass and i'm on my ass!" like i said fucking perfect.....Bad Day is yet another song i think everybody could easily relate to....Mondays = bad day and in this he describes all the stupid shit that could make you day horrible....with a great chorus "Days like this i wanna run away!".....Thank Your Mother For The Rabbits is probably one of my favorite tracks on the album....man i would to see this song live....the bass is perfect for this type of music....great drunk dance music
"feeling tired and i've been thinkin'....i should have killed you....got my gun and now i'm drinkin'"....look these lyrics ain't poetry but dam are they genius!....into the song Neighbors as i said just continues with the same great bass heavy rock and drunken misanthropic lyrics "don't think the neighbors like me, why the hell don't they come down and fight me"...i would say since i keep reading online that this is considered punk rock....which the elements are there for sure......much like they are in any Motorhead song....anyways i would say that Psycho Sheila is the best example of this very well done and could easily be good for some great circle pit fun.....the next track Whip Me is damn near a polar opposite.....slow bass heavy....honestly reminds me more of Lubricated goat than Cosmic Psychos but still a great song about some of that great hard lovin!....and as always another beer!!!!!....this also spawned one of a couple videos released on the AmRep series "Dope Guns and Fucking Up Your Video Deck"....the vid pretty tame but could possibly insult someone who is very uptight....so maybe wait till your home for this one
almost home is one of my favorite tracks to listen to while out driving.....great fast paced great lyrics about well driving way to much....dead roos on the side of the road.....and of course drinking (which i do not do )....live the lyrics "i ran out of smiles, just to many miles, but i'm almost home so get ready to bone!" as you can see it is also almost under a minute shorter than any other track on the album....this leads us to the final track on the album Come On a honestly perfect ending to this album.....drunk and mad Come on Come on Come on Come on CUNT yeah

enjoy this band they deserve it