Billy Goat - Bush Roaming Mammals (1992)

Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh! It's the early '90s, it's got a silly title - surely it must have some kind of funk ulcer ? Yep. And, like a few inclusions on this blog, it's certainly not essential, far from it, but I do like to let the metalheads and others have a glimpse of a world now lost...especially if you weren't there at the time. Thankfully, in part anyway, these guys like to beef up the guitar rather than letting the whole image and sound succumb to the watery funked up waves of colour. It's not the genius of Fishbone...nothing really is, but it's got that feel, and 24-7 Spyz can also get a mention here, and although we've got that humour, which never really works because it's clearly something personal to the band, we've got a few decent tracks and high elements of rap rock - Hard Corps somewhere too. Some may find it wears off after a few tracks, and that's always the case with this novelty stuff, and however harsh that sounds, novelty is all it is - the funk thing was never gonna last and 1992 was pretty much the final year of its pathetic existence. Billy Goat (awful name) will be forgotten but due to a sprinkle of okay-ish tracks, they get a mention here.

5.5/10