Steve Turner and His Bad Ideas - New Wave Punk Asshole

  by Jon Rogers

published: 30 / 9 / 2006

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When Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner first launched his solo project in 2004 with the album 'Searching for a Melody' , he was in full folk-country singer-songwriter mode and a marked distance from his main day job. Turner then turned up the amps a little way for the following 'Bad Ideas' in 2005. Now with 'New Wave Punk Asshole' the amps have gone up further still and he’s stepped more into the bratt-ish mode of Mudhoney. There’s the likes of the opener 'No One Gives a Shit' and 'Stupid Blues'with Turner declaring that his friends are “stupid”. All the songs are short, punchy and sharp. Even the longest song comes in under three minutes; quite a few just make it past the minute mark. Songs like 'Everyone’s an Ex' and 'Sex Date Saturday Night' come thick and fast in a haze of garage rock, pounding drums and cranked up guitars. '“Baby Baby Baby Baby'is given a 60's inflexion as if ? and the Mysterians had hooked up with Booker T for a jam session. As with many a solo project though 'New Wave Punk Asshole' never really manages to assert its own identity away from the presence of the main group – in this case Mudhoney. As with the recent solo albums from two of the Manic Street Preachers, 'New Wave Punk Asshole' will be little more than just a side project for Turner’s spare time. Sure, it’s a competent effort with some memorable moments but it's little more than that.

Track Listing:-

1 No One Gives a Shit
2 Reject the Future
3 Sex Date Saturday Night
4 Oh Paula
5 Everyone's an Ex
6 Off-Ramp to Nowhere
7 Banzai Against Nature
8 The Party's Over
9 Stupid Blues
10 I Know You Scorpio
11 Cold City
12 Pushing Up Daisies
13 Somewhere I Have Some Friends of Mine
14 One More Nowhere
15 Baby Baby Baby Baby
16 The End of the Song

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