| Totally Religious | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The Screaming Blue Messiahs |
| Cover: | File:Screaming_Blue_Messiahs_-_Totally_Religious.jpg |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Length: | 38:29 |
| Label: | Elektra |
| Producer: | Howard Gray, Rob Stevens |
| Prev Title: | Bikini Red |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Live in Concert |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Totally Religious is an album by the English band the Screaming Blue Messiahs, released in 1989.[1] [2] It was co-produced by previous Screaming Blue Messiahs producer Howard Gray and Rob Stevens.
The Chicago Tribune noted that, "with just guitar, bass and drums, the Messiahs play '50s blues/rockabilly with the fervor of a punk band." The Gazette determined that the album "packs enough bad attitude to disintegrate a hair salon full of metalheads."[3] The New York Times opined that, "in Mr. [Bill] Carter's songs, speed and violence are the only alternatives to self-deception and despair—a brutal world view, but one that makes for savage, vital rock-and-roll."[4]
The album has a 3/5 star rating on AllMusic. John Duggan wrote: "The final chunk of squalling guitar rant from the Screaming Blue Messiahs doesn't reach the relentless highs of Bikini Red, but it's pure mania nonetheless, and a sure shot for those who lapped up the first two waxings. The titles alone ('All Gassed Up' and 'Four Engines Burning [Over the USA]') clue you in that this is no mellow fest."[5]