Bull (album)

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Bull
Bootsauce bull.jpg
Studio album by
Bootsauce
Released1992
Label Vertigo/PolyGram [1]
Producer Michael Jonzun, Bootsauce
Bootsauce chronology
Re-Boot
(1991)		Bull
(1992)		Sleeping Bootie
(1993)

Bull is the second album by the Canadian band Bootsauce, released on February 7, 1992, on Polygram. [2] [3] [4] It achieved Gold status in Canada in five weeks. [5] [6] "Love Monkey #9", "Whatcha' Need" and "Big, Bad & Groovy" were released as singles. The album was nominated for a Juno Award, in the "Best Album Design" category. [7] It is their first album with their permanent drummer John Lalley.

Contents

Production

The album was produced by Michael Jonzun and the band. [8] Bootsauce shared in the songwriting. [9] "Love Monkey #9" is about animal testing on non-human primates. [10] "Big Bad & Groovy" employs a horn section. [11] Lemmy sang on "Hold Tight". [12]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Calgary Herald B [1]
Windsor Star A [9]

RPM listed Bull as their No. 1 album to watch on February 29 1992. [14] The album reached No. 9 in Canada's Top 10 selling albums by the first week of March 1992. [15] The Ottawa Citizen reviewed it as their "top release". [16] The Gazette noted that "there is more of everything—sex, danceability, power chords, smooth balladry, samples, with singer Drew Ling's insinuating voice living up to its owner's name." [17] The Globe and Mail wrote: "Bootsauce bounds all over the musical map, mulching early Pink Floyd sci-fi rock with Public Enemy-styled rapping ('Touching Cloth'), emulating Extreme on the ballad 'What Cha' Need', resurrecting Dr. John on the New Orleans-styled 'Dog Pound', and paying tribute to Sly and the Family Stone." [18] The album peaked at No. 17 on C95 FM's Top 30 Countdown in April 1992. [19] The Edmonton Journal determined that "assertive hard rock lays the foundation for snippets of soul falsetto, New Orleans gumbo and busy, Frank Zappa-ish orchestration." [20]

"Love Monkey #9" was the album's highest-charting single. It peaked at No. 42 on the RPM100 Hit Tracks for three weeks in March 1992, spending a total of 12 weeks on the chart. [21] "Watcha' Need" was on the RPM100 for seven weeks, peaking at No. 51 for two weeks in June. [22] "Big, Bad & Groovy" charted for five weeks, peaking at No. 65 for two weeks in September. [23] The album peaked at No. 22, charting for 23 weeks from February to August. [24]

Track listing

All songs were written by Bootsauce, except where noted.

  1. "Love Monkey #9" – 3:25
  2. "Touching Cloth" – 3:42
  3. "Whatcha' Need" – 5:09
  4. "Big Bad & Groovy" – 4:08
  5. "Dogpound" – 3:35
  6. "Outhouse Quake" – 4:23
  7. "The 13th Psalm" – 4:30
  8. "Misunderstood" – 3:46
  9. "Rollercoaster's Child" (Willy Beck, Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Pierce, Clarence Satchel, James Williams) – 3:31
  10. "I Saw You There" – 4:04
  11. "The Whole of You" – 4:01
  12. "Bad Dinner" – 3:45
  13. "Hold Tight" – 4:15

Personnel

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  14. ↑ "Albums to Watch" (PDF). RPM. 29 February 1992. p. 1.
  15. ↑ "Too sexy too good". Nanaimo Daily News. 6 March 1992. p. 45.
  16. ↑ Erskine, Evelyn (22 February 1992). "Bootsauce produces berserk music party". The Ottawa Citizen. p. 69. Bull tops last release.
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  18. ↑ Niester, Alan (10 Feb 1992). "Categorizing Bull is not easy". The Globe and Mail. p. C3.
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