"You can try having a party without this album blasting your bad luck into oblivion," cautions Van Zandt, "but I wouldn't recommend it." As he did for the previous volumes in the 'Coolest Songs in the World' series, Little Steven studiously scoured the world for the best music, picking tracks that give this new compilation "a little bit of everything that's cool."

Jules is backed by a band for the new set, Gary Jules And The Group Rules, comprising a number of Jules' collaborators from Los Angeles's Hotel Cafe cohort: Al Sgro (vocals, drums, percussion, synthesizers), Heather Brown-Dodge (vocals), Adam Grace (piano), Ben Peeler (lapsteel, weisenborn, and electric guitars), Ed Maxwell (electric and upright bass, keys, synthesizers), and Will Golden (acoustic guitar, synthesizers, bass guitar), with appearances by Pedestrian's Joel Shearer (electric guitar), Jason "Pip" Pipkin (drums) and Gabriel Mann (piano and organ). Bird also features a duet, "Been A Long Time," Jules' friend and frequent touring partner Jim Bianco.

Joining Richard are his outrageous and sexy friends; Yucko the Clown (a little racist), Gary the Retard (a little slow) and special guest porn star Gina Lynn (topless a lot!). Upon arriving at his boyhood home, Richard's parents, farmers Pat and Tom Christy, meet his unusual companions. The guests are immediately changed into overalls, and Mr. Christy assigns them chores like painting and cleaning the chicken coop; milking cows and washing his truck, all of which are quite challenging to this crew.

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With songs about undeniably HEAVY topics such as apparitional gloryhole afficienados, an "ode" to Native American Green Beret Vietnam War Veteran, hapkido karate Hippie Billy Jack [which rivals his own themed penned by original Satanic Black Metal Gods "Coven"], comic books [of course] and a Power-Ballad devoted to homoerotic fetish artist Tom Of Finland, Goblin Cock is taking yet another brave step in the re-defintion of TRUE METAL.

'Masculine, Feminine,' released in the UK through Shellshock in January as well, can be described as battered, inebriate and sensual as well as defiantly and unfashionably romantic - the first three months of a new love affair or seven years in jail for a crime of passion.