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Title: Flunks as a Blue Cheer parody
Review: First off, a version of Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla" dipped in molasses oozes from the speakers. But there's no Buck Dharma and the singer is _worse_ than Eric Bloom. Which takes some doing, lemme tell ya. Fu Manchu's "Eatin' Dust" almost makes it as a parody of Blue Cheer: raw and brutal guitar riffage steeped in Big Muff fuzz punctuated by a truly useless vocalist who can be counted on to interrupt the mood with bursts of tone-deaf and incomprehensible chatter that is passed off as chant-singing. On "Mongoose" and "Pigeon Toe" the drummer, bass player and one guitar player are allowed to develop a nice amount of head-bang without the singer wrecking things too much but by this time "Eatin' Dust" is almost over. Fu Manchu forgets the dirty little secret of heavy metal: No one who claims to like Blue Cheer actually listens to "OutsideInside" or "Vincebus Eruptum," ever. Probably an awesome live band, though.
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