Album Review #74: Live Begins At 40 Million (The Bogmen)
THE BOGMEN
LIFE BEGINS AT 40 MILLION
1995-ARISTA
Produced By JERRY HARRISON
- The Big Burn
- What's Behind Your Coat?
- Yellar
- The Third Rail
- Dr. Jerome (Love Tub, Doctor)
- Suddenly
- Piss Tongue
- Light A Candle For Me
- It's A Fast Horizon
- Raga
- The Doubter's Glass
- Englewood
The Bogmen's debut album is a hoot. Even though it's a bit over produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads, this is a band that sounds like it's having the time of their lives. They are led by singer Billy Campion, who sounds like he's about to go insane at any moment, and guitarist Bill Ryan. The centerpiece is the excellent "Suddenly", a schizophrenic break up song that finds the breakee completely falling into mental breakdown. The rest of the album is pretty fun, but "Suddenly", a song that should have been a hit, stays with you for awhile.
The band only recorded one more album before splitting in 1999, in large part because of Campion's drug problems. 40 Million was a promising debut that was never followed up with success. But it's a rocking good time, worth having a listen to.
This is album #74 in an ongoing series.
(Below...I LOVE this song!!!!!!)
