Bent Bolt and the Nuts “Mechanical Man

Posted in Uncategorized, experimental by teabog on March 25th, 2007

Bent Bold and the Nuts
“Mechanical Man”

I picked this one off the WFMU blog awhile back, but I heard of it long before then. It was reference a whole bunch in 1999, when wacky rock critics were busy making their lists of the top XXX Worst songs of the millennium (which, oddly enough, were all recorded after 1950…). Anyhow, nearly all of those songs were easily downloadable on Napster and included some camp classics like “Pac Man Fever” and “Disco Duck,” both of which made their way into several of mix CDs.

Some of those songs—those that had never been released on a Dr. Demento Compliation–seemed lost to history, released only once on 45 RPM by novelty acts that wound up selling their recording equipment for heroine.

For the life of me, I can’t remember any of those songs. I should have written them down. But I know them when I see them. Inexplicably, Negativland’s (now easily found) “Car Bomb” was one of them. And another one was this little ditty by Bent Bolt and the Nuts.

I love this song, and not for any campy or perverse reasons. I think it’s good. It’s messed up—it completely and totally fucked, actually, but I’ll be damned if it hasn’t aged well.