This album had some meean cuts on it, lots of rock but also some very funky rhythums as well. Thank's to guitarist J & bass player Sean Yseult!, This was imo a very important record after the likes of Appettite, Nevermind, Badmotorfinger, Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic etc.

The movie sample thing was frequent & would later become bigger in rock, the groove parts where very funk metal & basically gave wind to the genre known as groove metal.

It also has a bit of a rap-metal thing going, that was starting it;s early roots with Faith No More, Anthrax & Rage Against The Machine etc. I think this is a pretty important album in metal or just rock in general.

Thought's from other rock fans?

It is a good album that is probably overshadowed by "Thunder Kiss '65" and the attention the band received on Beavis and Butt-Head. I wouldn't call them a "joke band" but I think a lot of people view them as a bit of a novelty act and don't take them seriously which may be why this album doesn't have the reputation that it deserves.

I still remember buying this and Blind Melon on the same day. Both albums had the one big hit (all the girls absolutely loved "No Rain") but they were also very solid all the way through. I think I would have been about thirteen at the time and as a thirty-two year old I still occasionally listen to both albums. I can't say that about most of the stuff I was listening to when I was thirteen.

All these years later and I still haven't heard Astro-Creep: 2000-Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (phew, what a title!). I'll have to see if I can find a cheap used copy.

rialb said:

It is a good album that is probably overshadowed by "Thunder Kiss '65" and the attention the band received on Beavis and Butt-Head. I wouldn't call them a "joke band" but I think a lot of people view them as a bit of a novelty act and don't take them seriously which may be why this album doesn't have the reputation that it deserves.

I still remember buying this and Blind Melon on the same day. Both albums had the one big hit (all the girls absolutely loved "No Rain") but they were also very solid all the way through. I think I would have been about thirteen at the time and as a thirty-two year old I still occasionally listen to both albums. I can't say that about most of the stuff I was listening to when I was thirteen.

All these years later and I still haven't heard Astro-Creep: 2000-Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (phew, what a title!). I'll have to see if I can find a cheap used copy.

Yeah man! Astro Creep is fantastic! not as funky but some great grooves.

Well wasn't Black Sunshine sort of a hit to? i saw the B&B episode with it on it and they made a comment about Rob's dreads & him being rasta!

Blind Melons album is the shit to! but No Rain is still insanely overplayed.

I did find a cheap used copy of the second album so I'll get a chance to hear it soon.

You are correct, "Black Sunshine" was a top forty hit on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

It amuses me that Hellbilly Deluxe is now available as an expanded version titled Hellbilly Deluxe-Deluxe Edition.

The Bee Girl!

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