| Musical Monkey | ||||
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| Released | July 15, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1997 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 28:16 | |||
| Label | Nitro | |||
| Producer | Donnell Cameron, Guttermouth | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [2] |
Musical Monkey is the fourth album by the Huntington Beach, California, punk rock band Guttermouth, released in 1997 by Nitro Records. [3] [4]
The album peaked at No. 44 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart. [5]
The Los Angeles Times determined that Guttermouth's "ridicule of gays, animal-rights zealots, punk rock factionalists and sundry other targets is so over-the-top and scattershot that it obviously is just a prank against social rectitude, an emission not of seething malice but of junior-high-level perversity ... This approach robs Guttermouth of any real satiric bite (which would require moral outrage to buttress the foolery), but the band's raunchy humor in the service of knuckleheadedness does bring some guilty titters." [2] The Illawarra Mercury opined that the band "are masters of the somewhat difficult art of combining social commentary with outrageous satire, and putting it to music that's hard, fast and strangely melodic for punk." [6]
AllMusic wrote: "From Orange County comes a band that reflects all the worst aspects of the Orange County punk scene." [1] OC Weekly deemed the album one of the band's "seminal OC punk records," writing that it "watermark[s] the time and place as well as anything put out during that era." [7] Cincinnati CityBeat called "Lipstick" "a vindictive, twisted song—and also weirdly compelling and memorable." [8]
All songs written by Guttermouth
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