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White Hot Odyssey

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"As full of bullshit as schlock-rock groups inherently are, they actually just present rock's truest elements: long hair, blowjobs and guitar solos. This costumed Eugene quintet rocks as hard as they pose; imagine the New York Dolls, the Cult and David Lee Roth in a sticky tour-bus orgy." (JP) [Rock]This explains why W.H.O. is on a major label (sorta – major-minor subsidiary, whatever), but perhaps not why this record rocks in such a (literal) historic fashion. White Hot Odyssey, see, is a super 70’s style glitter rock band. Oh, they may not clomp around in platforms or have stars in their hair (top hats and powdered wigs, however, are most certainly on deck), but they sure the fuck sound like they ought to on this utterly bitchin’ ode to mega-glam. W.H.O. have that same sorta feather boa fuzz n’ soul vibe as the latter-day Makers or Danko Jones, only they infuse it with the big pop hooks of the Sweet and purposely ham-fisted yelp-along choruses of Slade. Toss in the dumb fun sexual innuendos of AC/DC (“Ride the Snake”, “Lick the Pole”, “Spit It Up”) and you’ve got the perfect prescription for a glamtastic trip in the wayback machine. -Sleazegrinder

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Member Since: 25/03/2005
Band Website: whitehotodyssey.com
Band Members: Le Count d' Monet, Jace, Jivan, Ed Cole, Mark Rogers
Influences: About me... I side with the future and the past, against the present...Who I'd like to meet... Two buxom women; watch them bathe each other with sponges, while I swallow live squid....then we pass unbroken egg yolks between our triple kissing lips... finally, we inhale rotten pumpkin and witch hazel and loll around in faux ecstacy on a california king....Influences... ...Exu, Ogun, Mirrored Ceilings, Surfing, La Crosse, Yachting, Modern Pentahalon, Salmon Fishing, Steamer Clams, Matisse, Gaudi, Cuba, Brazil, Bali, Athens, Rome, Futurism, Balthus, Paul Kleé, Evo-Devo, Drag Queens on Amphetamines, Muscle Cars, The Great Books Foundation, Destroying Rap culture, Destroying "Indy" culture, Withering hatred for both weakness and savagery, hence against the current terror of the majority in all things. Anti-Youth, Superstar girl who dances with her arms, Exquisitely subtle mockeries (Bien Sûr), Tango, Flamenco, Destroying Simian humpy dancing, My villa on the Saronic gulf Island of Hydra, Argentine Polo, White linen suits, The Butterfly stroke, Storytellers, Fluid golf swings, Bodies infinitesimally out of proportion...Music... Noel Coward, Don Giovanni, Elis Regina, Iggy, Small Faces, The Kinks, The Wipers, Meat Puppets, The Sweet, Basie, Ellington...Movies... Monsieur Hulot, Argento, Bertolucci, Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Film Noir, Kenneth Anger...Television... The Prisoner, Classic Sports Channel Boxing, Steve Martin...Books... Graham Greene, Stephen Mallarme, Rabelais, Starobinsky, Mortimer Adler, Alfred Jarry, Yukio Mishima, The Emperor Marcus Aurelius...Heroes... Après moi le déluge.
Sounds Like: Sweet, Slade, AC/DC, Dead Boys, NY Dolls, Kiss, Stooges, Grand Funk Railroad, MC5.
Record Label: Jive Records
Type of Label: Indie

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