Artist: The Reverend Horton Heat
Title: It's Martini Time
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: Interscope Records
Genre: Rockabilly, Rock & Roll
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 45:17
Total Size: 113/324 Mb (scans)
Tracklist:
1. Big Red Rocket Of Love 3:04
2. Slow 4:23
3. It's Martini Time 3:14
4. Generation Why 2:46
5. Slingshot 3:07
6. Time To Pray 2:40
7. Crooked Cigarette 2:54
8. Rock The Joint 2:04
9. Cowboy Love 2:41
10. Now, Right Now 2:39
11. Spell On Me 3:18
12. Or Is It Just Me 5:30
13. Forbidden Jungle 2:18
14. That's Showbiz 4:35
As the photo on the back cover indicates, the Reverend Horton Heat spent the two years between Liquor in the Front and It's Martini Time living pretty hard. In addition to touring, the group has indulged in their boozy, campy ways a little too much, which is evident throughout It's Martini Time. Though the group sounds fine -- by this point, they could probably play their overdriven rockabilly in their sleep -- there is no spark to the record, it all sounds tired. Where the band had sounded intoxicatingly crazed in the past, songs like "Big Red Rocket of Love" and "Generation Why" have no energy, nor do they have any hooks. The Reverend Horton Heat simply sound burned out. Of course, most rockabilly bands -- especially rockabillly revivalists -- wind up sounding burned out or tired, but it's disheartening to hear the group sound so close to the end of the line so early in their career.
