| Buster Goes Berserk | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Buster Poindexter |
| Cover: | Buster Goes Berserk.jpg |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Recorded: | 1988–1989 |
| Genre: | R&B |
| Label: | RCA |
| Producer: | Hank Medress |
| Prev Title: | Buster Poindexter |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Buster's Happy Hour |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Buster Goes Berserk is the second album by Buster Poindexter, an alter ego of singer David Johansen.[1] [2] It was released in 1989 by RCA Records.[3] The version of "Hit the Road Jack" also appeared on the soundtrack to The Dream Team.[4]
Members of the cast of Sarafina! performed on the album.[5] "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well" is a cover of the song made famous by Wynonie Harris.[3] "International Playboy" is a cover of the Wilson Pickett song.[6]
Robert Christgau wrote that "Buster's no better at bigtime schmaltz than David was." The Los Angeles Times determined that "this ice-breaking-if scarcely ground-breaking-disc is still a purr-fect poolside party platter for too-hepcats 'n' snake-hipped kittens as well as fine, fine, superfine grist for the live show's gin mill."
The Washington Post deemed the album "lite beer beach music."[7] The New York Times concluded that "the best cuts are those that suggest scenes from a wild party in progress where the host is the rambunctious, half-pickled singer, who has immersed himself in the persona of a funky soul man."[8]
The Banshees of Blue:
The Uptown Horns:
Additional vocals provided by Martha Wash, Jocelyn Brown, Brenda White, Lisa Lowell, Hoy Boy, John Collins, Kevin Trainor, Terry Gabis, Futz, Steve Paul, and from the cast of Sarafina!: Baby Cele, Lindiwe F. Dlamini, Lindiwe C. Hlengwa, Thamsanga Hlatywayo, Leleti Khumalo, Thandini Mavimbela, Nhlanhla Ngema, Pat Mlaba, Thandekile Nhlanhla and Thandi G. Zulu.