This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“File under jazz,” the PR bumpf says. Well, maybe — but only because there isn’t a section in the store to contain this genre-leaping offering from New York’s Sex Mob.
Its members have swung with The Lounge Lizards, plinked and plonked next to Tom Waits, rocked out for Sean Lennon and skronked behind John Zorn. Here, they put all that experience into play on a mesmerizing, trail-blazing CD with one of the freakiest, funkiest set lists around: Nirvana’s About A Girl, backdated to violin ragtime; Duke Ellington’s Mooch, tartedup as a bawdy bump ’n’ grind; Abba’s Fernando, as jammed by drunken toreadors; CSNY’s For What It’s Worth, mournfully rendered as a New Orleans funeral march; and The Rolling Stones’ Ruby Tuesday, skanked up with a dub section. File under jazz? I think not; Sex Mob is definitely in a class by itself.
