Underground Album
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| Studio album by David Allan Coe, The David Allan Coe Band | ||||
| Released | 1982 | |||
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| Length | 31:13 | |||
| Label | D.A.C. | |||
| Producer | David Allan Coe | |||
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Underground Album is the 21st studio album by American country musician David Allan Coe. It was released as a mail order album, not sold in stores, only through the back pages of the motorcycling magazine Easyriders and in the concession stand at his shows.[1]
Lyrics
Underground Album is Coe's followup to his 1978 album Nothing Sacred and contains profane, sexually explicit lyrics.
Reception
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
The album was generally criticized as being profane, racist, and crude.[3][4] Allmusic, which did not review the album, gave it three out of five stars.[2] "Nigger Fucker" resulted in Coe being accused of racism.[4][5] Neil Strauss described the album's material as "among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter."[6] The lyrics included lines such as "And to think I'd ate the pussy / Where that big, black dick had been / And kissed the lips that sucked him off / Time and time again / It's enough to make a man throw up." Coe responded to the accusations by stating "Anyone that hears this album and says I'm a racist is full of shit".[7] He also stated that he contacted Strauss during the writing of the article, but Strauss only acknowledged talking to Coe's manager, who would only comment off the record.[1]
Track listing
All songs written by David Allan Coe
- "Rock and Roll Fever" - 3:10
- "Panheads Forever" - 3:09
- "Nigger Fucker" - 2:28
- "Coffee" - 5:28
- "One Monkey" - 3:14
- "One More Time" - 3:13
- "Little Sussie Shallow Throat" - 2:57
- "Pick Em, Lick Em, Stick Em" - 2:56
- "Don't Bite the Dick" - 2:27
- "Fuckin' in the Butt" - 2:11
References
- 1 2 Tom Netherland (November 2000). "David Allan Coe rebuts racism charge". Country Standard Time. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- 1 2 "Underground Album". Allmusic. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ↑ Steve Eng. "Hello, Textas--Hello, St. Barts (and Montserrat)". Jimmy Buffett: The Man from Margaritaville Revealed. p. 217. ISBN 0-312-16875-6.
- 1 2 "White trash alchemies of the abject sublime". Bad music: the music we love to hate. Christopher Washburne, Maiken Derno. p. 37. ISBN 0-415-94366-3.
- ↑ Mark Kemp. Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South. p. 204. ISBN 0-8203-2872-3.
- ↑ Neil Strauss (September 4, 2000). "Songwriter's Racist Songs From 1980's Haunt Him". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ↑ Dan Leroy (July 14, 2005). "Coe Revisits Penitentiary". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 21 August 2011.