The Worst of Deja Voodoo

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The Worst of Deja Voodoo
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Studio album by
Recorded1987
Genre Garage rock
Length36:29
Label Og Music
Deja Voodoo chronology
Swamp of Love
(1986)
The Worst of Deja Voodoo
(1987)
Big Pile of Mud
(1988)
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The Worst of Deja Voodoo is a collection of singles, outtakes and oddities by the Canadian garage rock band Deja Voodoo.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Monsters in My Garage
  2. More Songs About Monsters and Food
  3. Feed That Thing
  4. Surfing on Mars
  5. Bullfrog
  6. Duh Papa Duh
  7. Driving on Drugs
  8. Rock Therapy
  9. Night Time
  10. Surfer Joe
  11. Phantom Skateboarder
  12. I Wanna Come Back from the World of LSD
  13. Vegetables
  14. Vang Gogh's Ear
  15. Baby Honey
  16. If You're So Smart
  17. Boppin' 88
  18. Peace, Love and Flowers
  19. Sigmund Freud
  20. Oh Yeah
  21. Wall of Paisley
  22. Lizard!
  23. Into the Gumbo
  24. Raised By Wolves

Personnel

Influences and Inspirations

Deja Voodoo are known for their extensive liner notes, showing their encyclopedic knowledge of music from the Fifties, the Sixties and the Seventies:

"Here are some of the folks the Vodoo cats have gotten larcenous with this time: Jan and Dean, Tornados, Shangri-Las, Mickey & Sylvia, Diamonds, Hasil Adkins, Gun Club, Big Joe Turner, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Elvis Presley, Monkees, Beach Boys, Surfaris, Hank Mizell, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, Undertones, Little Richard, Coasters, Rock-a-Teens, Johnny Burnette's Rock and Roll Trio, Cramps, The Fee-Fi-Four Plus Two, Butthole Surfers, Marcels, Strangeloves, Sonics, Barett Strongs, Everly Brothers, Muppets, and Jackie Brenston." (Quoted from the album's sleeve)

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