David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch

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Released2 November 2007
Genre Alternative rock, [1] karate rock, [2] [3] punk rock [4]
Fight Like Apes chronology
How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns?
(2007)
David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch
(2007)
Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
(2008)

David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch is the second EP by alternative rock band Fight Like Apes. It was released on 2 November 2007. [2] [5] [6] The EP is slightly more than eleven minutes in length. [7] Two of the four tracks from this EP were reworked for Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion , the band's debut album. The reworked songs were "Do You Karate?" and "Snore Bore Whore". [8] [9]

Contents

The EP's lead track "Do You Karate?" was a minor hit on the Irish independent music scene. [5] The band set off on their first UK tour after the EP's release, with their "Jake Summers" single from their previous EP, How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns? , being released there through the label, Cool For Cats (sister of Fierce Panda). [5]

Title

The title was inspired by the film Future Force starring the actor David Carradine, which the band found on the internet. [2] The misspelling of "whose" is, according to a Fight Like Apes press release, an attempt to "reinvent the English language". [10]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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entertainment.ie gave the EP three and a half stars out of five, dubbing it "a sophomore offering to relish". [10] They described "Do You Karate?" as having a "rude buzz-rock-bass-thump", "Canhead" as "a neat, jerky, burst of whimsical brilliance" and "Accidental Wrong Hole" as "succinctly aggressive". [10] Most praise was, however, reserved for "Snore Bore Whore", which they described as evidence of vocalist MayKay's ability to sing "pastoral as well as blow-your-eardrums-out cacophony". [10]

Sputnikmusic selected "Canhead" as their favourite track, drawing comparisons with Pixies. [7] Synthist Pockets "does his best Frank Black" and vocalist MayKay "shreds her vocal chords" over a meal of fish and chips. [7] They also reference Zac Attack and Milli Vanilli, who is regarded as of a higher quality than brown bread on the track "Accidental Wrong Hole". [7] "Do You Karate?" is described as the "most urgent" of the four tracks on the EP, drawing comparisons to Karen O and her style of using the word "shit". [7] "Snore Bore Whore" is suggested as belonging on the soundtrack of Happy Gilmore . [7]

Live dates

Fight Like Apes embarked on an Irish tour upon the release of David Carradine Is A Bounty Hunter Whose Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch. On the day of its release they played The Underground in Limerick, followed by a performance in Carlow and a date in Whelan's in Dublin on 16 November 2007. [13] A limited edition 12" compilation of David Carradine Is A Bounty Hunter Whose Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch and its predecessor How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns? was available exclusively at the Whelan's date. [13]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Fight Like Apes.

No.TitleLength
1."Do You Karate?"2:34
2."Canhead"2:09
3."Accidental Wrong Hole"1:49
4."Snore Bore Whore"4:38

Personnel

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