Ball-Hog Or Tugboat?

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Album Information
  • Artist: Mike Watt (See All Albums by Mike Watt)
  • Date Released: Feb 28, 1995

  • Genre: Alternative/Punk, Style: Indie Rock, Rock, Alternative, Commercial Alternative

  • Label: Columbia

Total Tracks: 17   Total Length: 67:21

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WATT not Watts

deechristoff

Hello emusic. There are so many things to like about you. AND - this album is great. How come you have to ruin it by spelling Mike Watt's last name wrong? Who does your copy-editing? Embarrassing!

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Mr Watt!

DJenr8

Love this album! It's funny how you can still hear Mike's working man's poetry come through all these different singers! Bring the thunder broom!

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Yeah!

ODBHB

A 90's classic...you will not be disappointed. Download it kids and then find out who all these folks are...This is worth 'E-Ticket Ride' alone, however you also get the best work out of some so-so 90's alt rockers like Dave Pirner, Henry Rollins and Evan Dando.

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This Is Your Life: Mike Watt

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One of the treasures of American punk rock, Mike Watt has been pounding the bass since he played with Minutemen in the '80s. He's still touring and recording nonstop, with a seemingly infinite succession of bands and projects. He's also a great natural talker — or spieler, as he puts it in his one-man argot — and his idea of the relationship between recordings and performances is a bit different from a lot of rock… more »

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For his first solo album, Mike Watt assembled a different band for each track, creating a veritable who’s who of post-punk and alternative rock — Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, Thurston Moore, J Mascis, Frank Black, Evan Dando, Dave Pirner, Henry Rollins, Flea, Lee Ranaldo, Mike D, and Pat Smear all appear, among others. Predictably, the sound is somewhat schizophrenic, but no more so than the average Minutemen album. Ball-Hog or Tugboat? is more polished than anything the Minutemen released, yet looser than fIREHOSE, filled with jazz-inflected breaks and sheer sonic freakouts, but dominated by a surprisingly large number of pop songs. On the power pop rush of “Piss-Bottle Man,” Dando sings with more emotion than on most Lemonheads records, and “Chinese Fire Drill” shows an effective folky side to Watt’s music. And Watt’s own vocals on “Big Train” are as big-hearted, sly, and funny as the album itself. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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