Boom! Boom! Boom! Explained

Boom! Boom! Boom!
Type:Album
Artist:Kelley Deal 6000
Cover:Boom! Boom! Boom!.jpg
Released:August 26, 1997[1]
Length:41:08
Label:Nice Records[2]
Producer:Kelley Deal
Prev Title:Go to the Sugar Altar
Prev Year:1996

Boom! Boom! Boom! is the second album by the Kelley Deal 6000, released in 1997.[3] [4] "Brillo Hunt" was the album's first single; the title refers to the practice of using steel wool to filter crack cocaine.[5]

Production

The album was produced by Deal, who also cowrote or wrote all of the album's songs.[6] [7] It was recorded over a period of two and half weeks in February 1997.[8]

Critical reception

Stereo Review wrote that "the sex-rocking 'Shag, the punk-snarling 'Get the Writing Off My Back', and the boom-boom-booming 'Brillo Hunt' are as catchy as anything on Last Splash but more fully arranged."[9] Rolling Stone called Boom! Boom! Boom! "a fun and arty fuck-about of a solo album," writing that "there's a lot of sonic debris here, too: bratty Mouseketeer-like cheers, hokey ditties such as 'Stripper' and arbitrary instrumentation like military snare drums and penny whistles."[10] The Columbus Dispatch concluded: "While several cuts spill over with resonating guitar pop, many ride the fence between full-on heavy metal and numbing alt-rock. While the latter is inoffensive, its impact is ephemeral at best."[11]

The Guardian deemed the album "splenetic punky numbers one minute, lovelorn crooning the next," writing that it "veers between the actually-quite-good and arrant nonsense." The Albuquerque Journal determined that "though most of the 15 songs (like the loosely structured 'Stripper', a sort of poke at the dancing profession, and the drumroll march of 'Total War') are experimental to be sure, there are still a couple of radio-ready pop gems, like the album opener, 'Shag', and 'Confidence Girl'."[12] The Boston Herald remarked that "the odd 'When He Calls Me Kitten' transfixes with a bizarre Ann-Margret-visits-the-Mississippi-Delta-blues vibe." The Plain Dealer thought that "while [''Sugar Altar'''s] lyrics seemed to evade serious issues, [Deal]'s now developing an oblique, personal language to explore them."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Kelley Deal; except where indicated

  1. "Shag" (Marty Nedich) – 2:26
  2. "Future Boy" – 2:11
  3. "Baby I'm King" – 3:27
  4. "When He Calls Me Kitten" – 3:23
  5. "Brillo Hunt" – 3:34
  6. "Box" – 2:24
  7. "Stripper" – 2:02
  8. "Where Did The Home Team Go" – 3:58
  9. "Confidence Girl" (Todd Mund, Marty Nedich) – 2:39
  10. "Total War" (Nick Hook) – 1:53
  11. "Scary" – 3:11
  12. "My Boyfriend Died" – 2:42
  13. "[Drum Solo]" – 0:28
  14. "Skylark" (Brent Sigmeth) – 4:06
  15. "Get the Writing off My Back" – 2:44

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kelley Deal 6000 Coming Soon. https://web.archive.org/web/20200103181539/http://www.mtv.com/news/1426574/kelley-deal-6000-coming-soon/. dead. January 3, 2020. MTV News.
  2. News: Sherr . Sara . ALTERNATIVE CHOICE . Philadelphia Daily News . 3 Oct 1997 . F15.
  3. News: Clayton. Liz. Rev. of Kelley Deal 6000, Boom! Boom! Boom!. 14 April 2011. CMJ New Music Monthly. October 1997.
  4. Web site: Kelley Deal Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
  5. News: Routhier . Ray . ON HER OWN, SINGER CREATES THE REAL DEAL . Portland Press Herald . 2 Oct 1997 . 2D.
  6. Don . Jeffrey . Sony's RED spawns indie group Red Ink . Billboard . Sep 20, 1997 . 109 . 38 . 1, 89.
  7. Web site: Kelley Deal. The A.V. Club.
  8. Web site: Tucson Weekly: Kelley's Kapers (August 28 - September 3, 1997). www.tucsonweekly.com.
  9. Milano . Brett . Boom! Boom! Boom! . Stereo Review . Dec 1997 . 62 . 12 . 111–112.
  10. Ali . Lorraine . Boom! Boom! Boom! . Rolling Stone . Sep 18, 1997 . 769 . 108.
  11. News: Beck . Aaron . KELLEY'S NEW DEAL SEEMS TO BE WORKING OUT . The Columbus Dispatch . September 30, 1997 . 6B.
  12. News: Hopper . Kevin . Kelley Deal spreads her wings . Albuquerque Journal . 29 Aug 1997 . F11.