{"id":4226,"date":"2011-03-25T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T01:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2011-03-26T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T19:44:44","slug":"the-hickoids-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2011\/03\/25\/the-hickoids-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The HICKOIDS are BACK!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Hickoids
\nKicking It With the Twits<\/em>
\nSaustex Media, 2011
\nReviewed by Kent Manthie<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Austin, TX\u2019s Hickoids are back, after their country-ish turn on Waltz A-Cross-Dress Texas<\/em>. Country isn\u2019t the only label to slap on these guys because that would 1) it would be bad for their image – what self-respecting artist(s) would want to be known as a \u201cserious\u201d country performer? And 2) it isn\u2019t quite true: the Hickoids mix it up with a little Texas-style, Johnny Cash-style country, Psychobilly like The Cramps and Southern rockabilly like Reverend Horton Heat and a nod towards that scene.<\/p>\n

2011 finds these guys turning the tables on some of the \u201cBritish Invasion\u201d bands, on their new album, Kickin\u2019 It With the Twits<\/em>, on Saustex Media, by doing covers of songs by bands like The Who, Rolling Stones, Mott the Hoople, Slade, The Damned and – a BIG surprise: the penultimate song is an obscure Brian Eno song: \u201cNeedle in the Camel\u2019s Eye\u201d(!), one of my favorite Eno songs, along with \u201cBaby\u2019s on Fire\u201d, \u201cThe Great Pretender\u201d and \u201cThird Uncle\u201d among many others. <\/p>\n

Besides the surprising Eno cover, The Hickoids take off their spurs, hang up their Stetsons and don some black Levi’s, leather and long-haired attitude for their new CD, Kicking it With the Twits<\/em>, a disc full of covers of songs from the 60s \u201cBritish Invasion\u201d. A little ironic when you realize that the kind of music that drove those English bands like The Beatles, Stones, Kinks and the Move, did with the long repertoire of obscure black bluesmen: now-legends like Muddy Waters, Howlin\u2019 Wolf, Elmore James and Bo Diddley amongst many more – like Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, a few of Paul McCartney\u2019s. Also, The Rolling Stones got their start singing raucous, raunchy blues numbers, unvarnished, unpolished, raw and ready to rumble. <\/p>\n

Later on, after all the \u201cflowers\u201d wilted away and the cult of death that was New York City, circa 1968, rose up, ignited by a pall in the atmosphere that was a black cloud sucking all the peace, love & understanding from the air and replacing it with the stench of heroin, death and war.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t very long that that type of dysphoric sadomasochism was displaced, amongst hipster FM DJs who, after a short absence of creativity, discovered that there was, brewing on the horizon, a new form of music and a new way of life called GLAM, which, after the same ups and downs and turn-arounds, morphed into two forks: punk and new wave\/Goth: The Stooges, MC5, The Clash, Sex Pistols on the punk side and new wave prototypes like Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Cure, David Bowie (in his Thin White Duke\/Eno phase: \u201cHeroes\u201d, Low, Lodger <\/em> and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)<\/em>. Those were the laid back days of the smiling seventies, when music was starting to split off into two directions: the conformist, corporate\u001f-owned schlock that made listening to your average radio station a complete hell and the independent, self-absorbed (in a good way), virtuosic and versatile beauty that came from deep-thinking, innovative, original artists who were not interested in the status quo but wanted to turn it upside down and shake all the money out of it.<\/p>\n

So, what it comes down to is that Kicking it with the Twits<\/em> is a cover album wherein the guys show what they can do by re-tooling some old classic tunes. Some of the more outstanding songs on Kicking it\u2026<\/em> include: The Who\u2019s \u201cPictures of Lily\u201d, The Stone\u2019s classic, \u201cHave You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?\u201d Then they have some covers from the 70s glam era, minus T. Rex, unfortunately. But what is there, is, a cover of \u201cBennie and the Jets\u201d, Mott the Hoople\u2019s \u201cWhizz Kid\u201d and the coolest cover on the CD, Brian Eno\u2019s \u201cNeedle\u2019s in the Camel\u2019s Eye\u201d. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m awfully glad I didn\u2019t totally give up on the Hickoids. Their previous album was a hoedown, raucous party jam, but a little too Southern-fried for me, but with this new release, Kicking it with the Twits<\/em> I apologize and give them another chance. If they can jump from the Roadhouse to Studio 54 just like that then they\u2019re capable of many things.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s hoping they\u2019ll be in town soon! <\/p>\n

-KM<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hickoids Kicking It With the Twits Saustex Media, 2011 Reviewed by Kent Manthie Austin, TX\u2019s Hickoids are back, after their country-ish turn on Waltz A-Cross-Dress Texas. Country isn\u2019t the only label to slap on these guys because that would 1) it would be bad for their image – what self-respecting artist(s) would want to be known as a \u201cserious\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4392,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2011\/04\/10\/ad-the-hickoids\/","url_meta":{"origin":4226,"position":0},"title":"[ad] The Hickoids","author":"admin","date":"April 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"[ad]The Hickoids!New CD out, from Austin, TXKicking it with The Twits ...Find it on Amazon HERE: amazon.com\/Kicking-Twits-Hickoids\/dp\/B004P0BUE6 SausTexMedia.com facebook.com\/pages\/Hickoids\/72187477001","rel":"","context":"In "advertising"","block_context":{"text":"advertising","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/advertising\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8249,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/06\/04\/ad-saustex-records\/","url_meta":{"origin":4226,"position":1},"title":"[ad] Saustex Records New Releases","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"June 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Saustex Records, Summer 2013, saustexmedia.com.","rel":"","context":"In "advertising"","block_context":{"text":"advertising","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/advertising\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"saustexmedia.com\/","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/saustex-Spring2013-web.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9719,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/10\/07\/lovely-raw-and-wicked-licks\/","url_meta":{"origin":4226,"position":2},"title":"Lovely, Raw and Wicked Licks","author":"Kent","date":"October 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Hickoids Tweet Hairy Chafin' Ape Suit Saustex Media Review by Kent Manthie Austin, TX's Saustex Media has proudly just released the newest from South Texas legends, Hickoids, a band whose history goes way back to 1984. 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