Supersuckers: Motherf*ckers Be Trippin' : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Expecting the Supersuckers to grow up and stop singing about getting trashed is like asking Angus Young to put on long pants: You could do it, but what's the point? Eddie Spaghetti and company revel in retrograde rock and show no signs of changing their tune on album number six. And, in this case, that's a good thing. Blistering punkabilly swing and with plenty of bleary-eyed cowboy grunge help Motherfuckers Be Trippin' gel into the one of the Seattle band's most consistently rocking albums. The expected odes to booze ("A Good Night for My Drinkin'," "Bubblegum and Beer"), stand alongside a cryin'-in-my-beer kiss off ("Pretty Fucked Up"), that stings even as Spaghetti chokes down some humble pie. "I used to be strong/I used to be tough," he sings, "And she used to be pretty/ But now she's just pretty fucked up." Despite a career spent mostly on the fringes, even their most cynical songs, "Rock-N-Roll Records (Ain't Selling This Year)", come off as more playful than bitter, because to be really mad, you'd have to actually give a shit.

GIL KAUFMAN
(April 21, 2003)