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- Artist: Mojo Nixon
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- Release Date: January 28, 1997
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Rock
Review
When Nixon's debut, Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, appeared in 1985, I wondered, "Who let this crazy gorilla out of the zoo?" He still hadn't been returned to his cage 11 years later. Mojo's was still the king of looney-bird, souped-up '50s rock & roll and R&B, with that insane country-singer-on-pills delivery intact, as evidenced by 1995's Whereabouts Unknown. It's thus an excellent time to take stock of a career that's also included a country collaboration with Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys; parts in such dumb and dumber movies as Great Balls of Fire, Car 54, Where Are You?, and Super Mario Brothers; hosting TV shows for MTV and USA networks; and even being surprised onstage by the Eagles' Don Henley to help him sing "Don Henley Must Die." Gadzooks is also Nixon's rarities-and-outtakes LP, a hodgepodge gathering of non-LP spare parts from singles, compilations, demos (even his first-ever recording), and five new songs. Yet Gadzooks is a representative overview for anyone in need of this witch doctor's buzz. While you'll have to look elsewhere for the delights of "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child" or "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin" (for Martha Quinn, not Martha & the Muffins), this is the place to shop when looking for "Bring Me the Head of David Geffen," the song pulled from Whereabouts after advance tapes of the LP had already hit press types (despite no actual legal threat from the record mogul). And the other 16 tracks, including nutso covers of the Dead Kennedys' comic campers send-up "Winnebago Warrior," David Peel's "I Like Marijuana" with new lyrics, and Chuck Berry's "Tulane," are just as witty, wild, woolly, wacky, wasted, whip-cracking, whooping, and wahooing. Yee-haw! Barbecue and brews at Mojo's! Burp. ~ Jack Rabid, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Ufo's Big Rig's & BBQ | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (3:43) |
| Bring Me the Head of David Geffen | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (2:34) |
| I Like Marijuana | David Peel, H.B. Barnum | Mojo Nixon | (3:43) |
| The Poontango | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (2:36) |
| Take Me to Your Leader | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (4:28) |
| Are You Drinkin' With Me Jesus? | Mojo Nixon | (3:10) | |
| Winnebago Warrior | Dead Kennedys | Mojo Nixon | (3:31) |
| King O' Sleaze | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (2:41) |
| Beer Ain't Drinkin' | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (3:06) |
| Go Back Home | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (3:42) |
| Death Row Blues | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (5:35) |
| Amsterdam Dogshit Blues | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (2:08) |
| I'm Drunk | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (2:50) |
| Tulane | Chuck Berry | Mojo Nixon | (2:14) |
| She's All Liquored Up | Mojo Nixon | (2:55) | |
| High School Is a Prison | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (2:58) |
| Richard Petty | Mojo Nixon | Mojo Nixon | (3:46) |
