Ted Nugent

Album No. 3 from the Motor City Madman cemented his place in history with the smash hit single "Cat Scratch Fever," one of the all-time great juvenile vocabulary lessons. Throughout the album, Nugent's totally burnin' guitar is matched by the cock-rockin' vocals of Derek St. Holmes. Don't forget to play "Homebound" anytime you are returning from the hunt.

For sheer jubilant ferocity in recent hard rock, Ted Nugent has only himself to top, and he
does it on Cat Scratch Fever, a manic meditation on good sex, difficult sex, imaginary sex
and Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper? That's what a song called "Death by Misadventure" seems
to be about, though why Nugent has chosen to give Alice the raspberry is hard to fathom.
Ted Nugent does not reason as do you or I, my friends. But "Death by Misadventu... More >

Nugent may well have turned into a cartoon, but I prefer cartoon carnivores to cartoon vegetarians. And speaking of cartoons, better the Kiss imitation of today than the Robin Trowers of yesteryear--Ted is no more sexist than Kiss, and he sings better. Ten fast, simple, stupid rock and roll songs for guitar and shout, six or seven of which would keep anyone under thirty-five awake for four or five minutes on the interstate, and from here things can only go downhill. (Grade - B)