Mondo Generator
Cocaine Rodeo

THE REVIEW

While waiting for the release of the new album, "A Drug Problem that Never Existed" (ahaha), the writer decides to dust off from musical oblivion the debut album of Mondo Generator, "Cocaine Rodeo".
In this side project, Nick Oliveri opts for the pseudonym Rex Everything, the same one he used when he was part of the legendary self-destructive Dwarves (from which he was later kicked out for HIS excesses, quite ironic, given that the Dwarves themselves never held back on excesses!).

"Cocaine Rodeo" is heavily inspired by punk "sounds", Turbonegro makes an appearance here and there, as does 13th Floor Elevator, which are borrowed, chewed, and literally vomited by Oliveri, in a rather amateurish manner.

At times decidedly unlistenable and useless, this debut album is a celebration of Rex Everything's ego, who, in almost every track, screams with the same ferocity as a monkey suffering from terminal stage hemorrhoids. The result is confused, trivial, and simply ugly.

The notion that Oliveri was part of Kyuss is reminded to us only in "13th Floor" (track 1) and "Simple Exploding Man" (7), where Josh Homme's guitar and Brant Bjork's drums bring the listener back to stoner territory, saving this album from an otherwise inevitable end in the trash can.
Probably the last track, "Cocaine Rodeo", best sums up Rex Everything's philosophy of life; with a guitar that mimics the soundtracks of comedies, Nick, in a moment of self-parody, hums: "I need a drink to burn my throat I need a girl to hang my coats wash my clothes, bring the food I need a girl with a lot of tune Wake me up and get me high wake me up and get me high You wanna know, who's on the phone Not for you BITCH, just leave it alone Wake me up and get me high Wake me up and get me high".

Oliveri may need to wake up, but, at least as far as "Cocaine Rodeo" is concerned, the drugs have stopped having their effect, and the final result is just a squalid "hangover".