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DEVIL’S FOOD
(Mid-Fi)
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With the finer points of shitkicking being as tough to judge as style in a chugalug contest, what distinguishes the Supersuckers from other veteran brewers of punk, twang, and ’70s hard rock is their silliness and their sense of adventure. In this batch of recent rarities, frontman Eddie Spaghetti leads the band through note-for-note, word-for-word replicas of Outkast’s "Hey Ya!" and the Chips’ "Rubber Biscuit." Chutzpah aside, it sweeps you up like a night of drunken karaoke. And though the fun is hardly infectious when the boys tweak Lionel Richie’s "Sail On" into Skynyrdian sludge, it’s the originals, not the covers, that make a band’s odds and ends a barometer of their overall health. Such castaways don’t come more album-worthy than the power-popping "Team Man" and "End of an Era" — the latter proving, in thoughtful strokes, that Spaghetti can turn a crafty phrase or two. But lest the Supersuckers be seen to spare the boot, half of Devil’s Food is packed with stone rave-ups. The ripping "Can Pipe" even makes improvised bongs worth shouting about for two grubby minutes. (The Supersuckers open for the Reverend Horton Heat next Thursday, May 5, downstairs at the Middle East, 480 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square; call 617-864-EAST.)
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