Search - Dead Hot Workshop :: 1001

An ok album, some descent lyrics and good melodies

Concerned One | Clarinda, IA | 01/13/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I am reviewing this mainly for sentimental reasons. I saw these guys in 1995 as the opening act right before the Gin Blossoms on their "Congratulations...I'm Sorry" tour in Missoula Montana. These guys were billed on top of The Refreshments (also see Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers) who ended up doing singnificantly better commercially than did Dead Hot Workshop (with good reason, the refreshments just worked well, to bad it didn't last). Gin Blossoms even played on stage with them during their set, and visa versa. I found this album some years later in Great Falls Montana, prior to amazon.com making it easier to find.



This was their second album, more polished after their River Otis Relese, which I found a little more original and not as blended into the Goo-goo dolls/gin blossoms/refreshments sound that the mixing of this album had. Again, got to love songs like Sex with Strangers, Mr. SOB, Jesus Revisited, and Burger Christ. Give these guys a try if you like the Gin Blossoms and especially The Refreshments or Roger Clyne and The Peacmakers. For $0.25 that they are asking (plus shipping and handling) what a bargin."