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Running Of The Bulls / Where Do The Elephants Go When They Die? / Squawk! / Twisted Around / Monkey Bar

This one really took me by surprise because it is so different from what I had expected... and it's great!!! I can't really tell you what I had expected but certainly not such a very, very cool garagey, organ driven brand of sound that the band is pulling off here. Don't get me wrong, this is not your usual 60's garage retro revival drag, the Chicken McHeads are not afraid of weaving horns into their music, as well as novelty elements that resemble the tracks that horror host legend Zacherly recorded (remember Monster Mash?) in the 60's. For those of you who insist on drawing parallels, imagine Gas Huffer doing mid-tempo garage/soul trash while riding on a ghost train. Also, the first song, "Running Of The Bulls" kinda reminds me of great early Dead Kennedys weirdness. Can it be??? Speaking of songs, all five of them are great on their own - Where Do The Elephants Go When They Die? with its snot-caked vocals is my personal fave at the moment - but listening to the whole enchilada makes for highest entertainment value. If there is a God in heaven, Chicken McHead should find a record label and have a full-lengther out in no time, and I'll be first in line to buy it... and you should be there with me! Meanwhile, contact these guys at kgrave2000@hotmail.com

Often I have to review desperate hc\punk bands from Italy, but
this time it's Chicken McHead's turn. Chicken McHead are an old-style punk oriented American
band with many Cramps influences. Sometimes they also remind me of Mudhoney.

They're strange, ironic and their lyrics are sarcastic. "Running of the Bulls", "Where do the Elephants go when they Die?", "Squawk!", "Twisted Around", and "Monkey Bar" are the titles of the songs, which in themselves are well representative of the band's creativity. Coarse
sounds, a semi-guttural voice and a strange piano are the other interesting elements
of their cool music. If you like the Cramps, but with a few more risky shadings, do not deprive yourself of this CD.

Many of you you will know the urban legend about the woman who ordered chicken wings at McDonalds, and among them there was a fried chicken head. True or not, from that incident comes the name of this group formed by ex--Sanity Assassin Keith Grave, also a member of Blastmat. The sound is garage punk in this demo, with 5 vibrant songs, very prominent keyboards, guttural voices, unconventional lyrics with a big sense of humor, and in general an air of eighties punk, although very peculiar, and different from what might be expected. They begin with the very lively and garagey "Running of the Bulls”, followed by "Where do the Elephants go when they Die?” in the same style. The sound gets calmer already with the next song, "Squawk!", whereas " Twisted Around" hearkens back to the principles of the ‘80s and groups like the Cramps or T.S.O.L. The CD concludes with "Monkey Bar". We predict a promising future for this band, which we expect will not be long in coming. At the moment the demo is self-released, so the only way to get it is to write to chickenmchead1@aol.com