| Hayseed Timebomb | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Cowpunk | |||
| Length | 31:56 | |||
| Label | Crypt Records [1] | |||
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Hayseed Timebomb is an album by the Kentucky-based cowpunk band Nine Pound Hammer, released in 1994. [2] [3] The band supported the album with 10-week tour. [4]
"Wreck of the Old 97" is a cover of the Johnny Cash version of the song. [5]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
The Morning Call deemed the album "excellent," writing that "it takes a smart band to write painfully accurate songs such as 'Hayseed Timebomb', 'Stranded Outside Tater Knob' and 'Shotgun in a Chevy'." [7] Trouser Press concluded that "the album’s trash-filled swamp of beer, No-Doz, junk food, sloppy sex and rifles blurs the us-them culture line in a hyped-up wail of droll debauchery." [8]
AllMusic wrote that the band "relies on their comical faux aggression to produce something of hyper-real consequence." [6]
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hayseed Timebomb | 2:30 |
| 2 | Skin a Buck | 2:40 |
| 3 | Stranded Outside Tater Knob | 2:29 |
| 4 | Run Fat Boy Run | 2:37 |
| 5 | Wreck of the Old 97 | 1:57 |
| 6 | Shakey Puddin' | 2:42 |
| 7 | Devil's Playground | 4:16 |
| 8 | Steamroller | 3:15 |
| 9 | Shotgun in the Chevy | 2:44 |
| 10 | Fuck Pie | 2:26 |
| 11 | Outta the Way, Pigfuckers | 2:00 |
| 12 | Adios, Farewell, and Goodbye | 2:20 |
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