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Warlock Pinchers
"Deadly Kung Fu Action/Pinch A Loaf"
© Boner Records
Year of Release: 1998
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track listing
We Got The Beast
Where The Hell Is
Crispin Glover
Arnie
Flaming Mimes
Anthem Five
Back In Black
Devil Without A Pause
Deadly Gary Fu
Morissey Rides
A Cockhorse
Curious George And
The Ayatollah
Arsenic Chick
Watch Rizz Out
Wayne The Dead
Battery Guy
Phone Fun 1
Let's Get Maced
Fruit Stripe Gum
Jolt Is...
Mana Mana
Hey Bud
King O'Lyrics
Ladies And Gentleman
Master Magician
Doug Henning
Sermon 1
Curious George And
The Anti-Christ
Sermon 2
The Great Way
Billy The Scab
Anthem Four
Phone Fun 2
Ballad Of The
Brothers Chuck
They Said Something
eAbout You
I Think We're Tiffany
Epilogue
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Warlock Pinchers
"Deadly Kung Fu Action/Pinch A Loaf"
When looking up this band on Google, a myspace site was shown, as the music
of the Warlock Pinchers is "dedicated to Satan". Let it be known, that WSVNRadio
has no intent of dedicating their desires to Satan, but here's the story on
this particlar album: I was looking into finding a song that was well-known on
Sesame Street and the Muppets, "Mana Mana." I found the original
version (I think) from a Swedish film soundtrack (Pierre Ummiliani's Swezia,
Inferno E Pardiso [Sweden, Heaven Or Hell]). This song was also covered by
a band called the Warlock Pinchers, from their album "Deadly Kung Fu Action."
(This album was originially titled Pinch A Loaf when it was released on
vinyl. In later years after this discovery, the band Cake would remake their
own version for a children's chairty album, For The Kids.
I will not rate each song from this release (like I normally would),
because there are only two words to describe this album: IT'S BAD.
Overall, the group's sound is much like a very bad Beastie Boys album.
I'm sure they were influenced by the likes of punk bands such as The Sex Pistols,
and they did incorporate some rap influences, such as how The Beastie Boys "rap"
on their albums.
Some highlights are how they incorporate sound bites on such songs, as
in what is considered their best song (after reading numerous reviews),
"Morrisey Rides A Cockhorse." Barry Manilow's "V.S.M." (Very
Strange Medley) has a sound bite from his Dr. Pepper jingle, and there are some
phone calls, and some shot comedy sketches along the way. But the best
highlights are their version of AC/DC's "Back In Black," where it sounds
as if the Beastie Boys would record this song in their own particular style.
And of course, my personal favorite is their version of "Mana Mana," where
it sounds like how the originals were, yet it has a spot towards the end of the
song where you hear it backwards. (I guess they had to put their own devlish
touch to it.) And for those wondering about the Sesame Street version, it is
available on the Sesame Street 35th Anniversary box set.
This is taken from the Amazon.com site, and one of its reviews:
ALL HAIL THE LORD HIGH SATAN!!!, November 29, 2003
By Janitor X (The Mountains)
"Deadly Kung Fu Action" is a blast of pure adrenaline straight from the hell. Only
buy this album if you want to be possessed by Satan. Once you do, you will forever be
Satan's slave. Like the Pinchers say, "We've got the bodies and he's got the brains."
The Warlock Pinchers may not sound all that original now, but this album is fifteen
years old so when it was released it was totally unique. Every band in the rap-punk-metal
genre will never be as original as the Pinchers. Maybe I'm a bit a prejudice because
the Pinchers are from Denver (70 miles to the north of me) and I saw them play live all
the time. My very first time in a mosh pit was at a Pinchers show in Boulder when they
played their most popular song "Morrisey Rides A Cockhorse". In Colorado Springs somebody
decided to have a punk show at our local Fine Arts Center. It was The Dead Milkmen with
the Pinchers opening up. That would be the first and last punk show at the Fine Arts
Center, they completely trashed the place.
Beavis & Butthead would have loved this band. Were they on their show
or not? Beavis would have loved the record company the Warlock Pinchers were
on: BONER Records.
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