Bo-Day-Shus!!! | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper |
Cover: | MNixon_Bo.jpg |
Released: | 1987 |
Studio: | George Tobin Studios, Hollywood, California |
Label: | Enigma |
Producer: | Ron Goudie |
Prev Title: | Frenzy |
Prev Year: | 1986 |
Next Title: | Root Hog Or Die |
Next Year: | 1989 |
Bo-Day-Shus!!! is the third album by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, released in 1987.[1] [2] It contains the song "Elvis is Everywhere," which became an MTV hit.[3]
The album peaked at #189 on the Billboard 200.[4]
Skid Roper wrote and sang two songs on the album, "The Polka Polka" and "Lincoln Logs."[5]
Kiernan McCarthy of AllMusic praised the album's humor, writing that "not every joke Mojo Nixon lets fly on Bo-Day-Shus!!! is a knee-slapper, but one cannot deny his persistence. If you don't like the first quip, he might catch you on the second one, or the tenth." He specifically referred to "Elvis is Everywhere" and "I Ain't Gonna Piss In No Jar" as the best examples of this. Robert Christgau also appreciated "Elvis is Everywhere," comparing it to the music of Phil Ochs, but was critical of several of the other tracks, especially Roper's contribution "Lincoln Logs." Trouser Press called the album "a hoot," and praised the "epic" "Elvis is Everywhere."[6] The Rough Guide to Rock called it "shambling and sweet-tempered."[7]
In a retrospective review, PopMatters wrote: "Two decades later, Bo-Day-Shus!!! stands as the ultimate musical document of America's '80s love affair with redneck culture."[8]
All songs written by Mojo Nixon and published by Tallywacker Tunes/La Rana Music except as indicated.
[*] Bonus tracks on CD and cassette releases.