APOCALYPSE DUDES
Apocalypse Dudes is the fourth album from Norwegian band Turbonegro. It is the first studio album to feature lead guitarist Euroboy. Released in early 1998 in Norway and Germany, the album was a huge success for the then underground band. Adapting a more glam-rock oriented sound, Apocalypse Dudes set the standard for future Turbonegro records and became the first part of the Apocalypse trilogy, consisting of Apocalypse Dudes (1998), Scandinavian Leather (2003) and Party Animals (2005). (More from Wikipedia)
I quickly learned that Queens of the Stone Age were going to be appearing at the House of Blues in New Orleans. While we were waiting outside the show, I overheard someone asking about the opening act, Turbonegro, and had anyone ever heard of them? I piped up, “Yeah, they are a good band; I have one of their albums”. Turbonegro is from Norway and has or had a big guy as the front man who used to twirl around on stage. The opening track on the album I have, Apocalypse Dudes has the pompous title of “The Age of Pamparius”, but the lyrics are anything but: “So you think you had a real good pizza / Well not like this . . . / So you think you had a pepperoni / So you think you had a calzone / Well not like this”.
(December 2012)
