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| Released | 1998 | |||
| Recorded | March 1997 – April 1997 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | In the Red | |||
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Horndog Fest is an album by the American band the Dirtbombs, released in 1998. [1]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Tom Hull – on the Web | B+ (  ) [3] |
The Toronto Star wrote: "Picture a funky Adam and the Ants locked in a steel mill with the John Spencer Blues Explosion, a Temptations songbook and far, far too much wattage, and you'll have an indication of the arresting musical miasma emanating from the Dirtbombs' debut disc, Horndog Fest." [4]
All songs written by Mick Collins, except where noted.
U.S. LP/CD release
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Vixens in Space" | 2:18 | |
| 2. | "I Can't Stop Thinking About It" | 3:03 | |
| 3. | "Granny's Little Chicken" | 3:54 | |
| 4. | "Bittersweet Romance Song" | 2:21 | |
| 5. | "Armageddon Double Feature (Lovesick Blues #4)" | Collins, Joe Greenwald, Tom Lynch | 3:30 |
| 6. | "She Blinded Me with Playtex" | 1:30 | |
| 7. | "A Brief Treatise on the Discovery of Antimatter" | 0:30 | |
| 8. | "Pheremone [sic] Smile" | 2:59 | |
| 9. | "My Heart Burns with Deeps of Lurve" | Tom Lynch, Andreas Martin | 4:05 |
| 10. | "Burnt to Cinders" | 1:40 | |
| 11. | "Fox Box" | 2:15 | |
| 12. | "Shake!! Shivaree" | 1:26 |
Japan CD release (In the Red/Blues Interactions, Inc.)
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Vixens in Space" | 2:18 | |
| 2. | "I Can't Stop Thinking About It" | 3:03 | |
| 3. | "Granny's Little Chicken" | 3:54 | |
| 4. | "Don't Bogue My High" | 2:16 | |
| 5. | "Bittersweet Romance Song" | 2:21 | |
| 6. | "Armageddon Double Feature (Lovesick Blues #4)" | Collins, Joe Greenwald, Tom Lynch | 3:30 |
| 7. | "She Blinded Me with Playtex" | 1:30 | |
| 8. | "Infra-Red" | 2:18 | |
| 9. | "A Brief Treatise on the Discovery of Antimatter" | 0:30 | |
| 10. | "Pheremone [sic] Smile" | 2:59 | |
| 11. | "My Heart Burns with Deeps of Lurve" | Tom Lynch, Andreas Martin | 4:05 |
| 12. | "Nichele Nichols [sic]" | 0:58 | |
| 13. | "Burnt to Cinders" | 1:40 | |
| 14. | "Fox Box" | 2:15 | |
| 15. | "Shake!! Shivaree" | 1:26 | |
| 16. | "Trouble" | William Robinson | 2:12 |
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