ABSOLUTELY BACON

This is the fourteenth Mutiny in Jonestown studio album, and if you think the previous one (The Return of the Nowhere Man) was an eclectic mix of styles and approaches, this one is positively schizophrenic (or you might say, "Absolutely Bacon"). There are 3 distinct sections to the album. The first is the type of music you'd usually associate with Mutiny in Jonestown, though mostly more focused on the rock rather than prog side of the band. The second section is a collection of 7 relatively concise classical pieces ranging from 1 and a half to nearly 4 minutes long. These are structured along the lines of baroque influenced small chamber pieces. The third section is the most unusual. I woke up one day and wondered, what would it sound like if the Sex Pistols instead of the Beatles had written the Sgt Peppers album? This section is a recording of the entire Sgt Peppers album performed with the sneering disdain only the Sex Pistols could bring circa 1977. The entire album only took 20 minutes to perform and is great fun.

Two of the pieces from the first section of the album are available on the compilation 'Anthology II 1993 - 2002' available on BandCamp. These are both straight up rock songs with no prog in them. The first is, "Rape.com", a song written in 1999 at the height of the "dot.com" era about a year before the infamous dot.com crash. The song laments the negative changes the new information age was heralding, like people who could no longer be pried away from the fascination of their computers and the soaring stock market to experience real life. The lyrics say it best, "And as the days countdown 2000 looms ahead. But we won't look inside 'cause we're already dead". The other piece is the first straight ahead blues the band recorded called, "Neighbor Blues". It's actually written about my neighbor at the time and what a nightmare it was living next to him and his gang of clueless partying roommates. Sometimes writing lyrics and music can be rather therapeutic allowing you to express things you wouldn't normally say. I can definitely confirm that singing the line, "It's too bad that drinking beer is not a paying job. He'd be a ****ing millionaire instead of a wasted slob" made me feel much better!

This is another of many Mutiny in Jonestown albums that is a really good overall album, but can only be rated 2 stars because it's not a really good prog album.