Killdozer - Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite

So very perfectly American: a title that could have come from one of Frank Zappa's albums, a cover photo with references to Elvis and Brainerd, MN, and a concluding remake of a Creedence Clearwater Revival song, "Run Through the Jungle." Combined with slabs of noisy feedback twisted through country-blues hell and produced -- in one of his first major jobs -- by Butch Vig, Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys was a gut- and eardrum-busting debut. If the Hobson brothers never became as famous as the Kirkwoods from the Meat Puppets, they and Gerald, master of the contemptuous bark and drawl, carved out their own mark in '80s independent rock. Read More