Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Contains explicit content
Genre: Rock
Review
Sloppy Seconds began to unveil Dr. Hook's crude brand of humor, with its only saving grace coming from "Cover of the Rolling Stone," the band's second Top Ten hit which followed the insipid "Sylvia's Mother" from a year before. Although a feel for the band and Ray Sawyer's slackened vocal style can be attained throughout the tracks, there isn't much substance filtering through the songs, as cuts like "Looking for Pussy," "If I'd Only Come and Gone," and "Get My Rocks Off" sound more like lewd jottings from a teenager than they do rock & roll tunes. "Carry Me Carrie" and "The Things I Didn't Say" come off as facetious attempts to rekindle some of the charm that came with their first single, but the band's efforts fall way short. "Queen of the Silver Dollar" is the album's only other redeemable track, but it's best heard in amongst a compilation along with "Cover of the Rolling Stone" than it is here, which means, for the most part, Sloppy Seconds can be deemed inessential. After this album, Dr. Hook added the Medicine Show to their name and, throughout the rest of the '70s and the early '70s, they garnered eight more Top 40 hits. Every one of them was of the mawkish, eased-back love song type though, a style the band wisely took advantage of. ~ Mike DeGagne, All Music Guide
Dr. Hook (Main Performer), Dr. Hook (Performer), Dennis (Guitar), Dennis (Vocals), Ray Sawyer (Guitar), Ray Sawyer (Vocals), George (Guitar (Electric)), George (Vocals), George (Hawaiian Guitar), Bill (Keyboards), Bill (Vocals), David Brown (Engineer), George Cummings (Guitar (Steel)), Jay David (Drums), Rik Elswit (Guitar), George Engfer (Engineer), Billy Francis (Keyboards), Jance Garfat (Bass), Ron Haffkine (Producer), Jay (Drums), Jay (Vocals), Glen Kolotkin (Engineer), Mike Larner (Engineer), Dennis Locorriere (Guitar), Dennis Locorriere (Vocals), Ray (Vocals), Roy Segal (Engineer), Tom Lubin (Engineer), Jim Marshall (Photography), Ron Coro (Art Direction), Ron Coro (Design), Ken Walz (Photography)
Sloppy Seconds is a Ramones-influenced punk band from Indianapolis that started in the mid-1980s. With such underground hits as "Come Back, Traci" (a tribute to an underaged Traci Lords), "I Want 'em Dead", and "So Fucked up", the band prefers to sing about such topics as pornography, classic horror movies, old TV shows, comic books, alcohol, being fat, and getting drunk. They have been quoted as being proud to be fat, drunk, and stupid. Their name is the slang term for when a man has intercourse with another person who already has received another man's semen in the relevant orifice. In 2008, the group returned after a long hiatus, releasing Endless Bummer, their first full-length in ten years.[1]
"So Fucked Up" and "I Want 'em Dead" appear in the Sick Girl soundtrack. The horror film, Sick Girl, also features a character, "Jugs", played by Andy Signore (The Janitor, United 300) who is murdered while wearing a Sloppy Seconds shirt.
