| Whereabouts Unknown | ||||
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| Released | 1995 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | Blutarski/Ripe & Ready [1] | |||
| Producer | Eric Ambel | |||
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Whereabouts Unknown is an album by the American musician Mojo Nixon, released in 1995. [2] [3] Nixon supported the album by touring with his band, the Toadliquors. [4]
Whereabouts Unknown was produced by Eric Ambel. [1] Will Rigby played drums on the album. [5] "Tie My Pecker to My Leg" was cowritten with Country Dick Montana. [6] "Girlfriend in a Coma" is a cover of the Smiths' song, with additional lyrics. [7] "My T.V. Is Watchin' Me" was inspired by Bob Stinson. [8]
"Bring Me the Head of David Geffen", a song that appeared on advance copies of the album, was pulled right before the official release. [9] [10] The song later appeared on 1997's Gadzooks!!! The Homemade Bootleg. [11]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram |    [12] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [13] |
Trouser Press wrote that "the playing is crisp and perfunctory country-rock; instrumental accuracy is thoroughly wasted on (if not toxic to) a vocalist this instinctual... Fortunately, Mojo is in credibly foul form, and has enough solidly entertaining originals to make his own party happen." [1] The Philadelphia Inquirer called the album "a roots-rock celebration of moral lassitude and the product of a sick mind." [14] The Washington Times considered it "a blues-country mix that sounds like Muddy Waters and Ernest Tubb together on a bad hair day." [15]
The Boston Globe deemed Nixon "a human gutterball, a strummin', cussin', frat-party for punks." [16] The San Diego Union-Tribune noted that "Nixon has assembled a ruckus of a band that can swing and swagger along to his fabulously gruff, shag carpet of a voice." [7] The Richmond Times-Dispatch labeled Nixon "the record industry's most beloved degenerate," writing that the album is "as politically incorrect as ever." [17] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram praised the "crack garage/roots band chugging behind [Nixon]." [12]
AllMusic wrote: "Nixon's humor remained as sophomoric as it was politically incorrect. As usual, he was pretty funny the first time around, though." [18]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Gotta Be Free" | |
| 2. | "Not as Much as Football" | |
| 3. | "Mr. Correct (Don't Tell Me What to Do)" | |
| 4. | "Buck Up & Stop Your Whinin'" | |
| 5. | "My Free Will Just Ain't Willin'" | |
| 6. | "Girlfriend in a Coma" | |
| 7. | "The Pleasurelegience" | |
| 8. | "Don't Ask Me Why I Drink" | |
| 9. | "My T.V. Is Watchin' Me" | |
| 10. | "Take a Look in My Eyes" | |
| 11. | "Tie My Pecker to My Leg" | |
| 12. | "You Can't Kill Me" | |
| 13. | "If I Can Dream" |
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