From the provocative album title referencing the "Bread of Life;" to the introductory deployment of "All Monsters;" to the jazz-polka segue track -- interrupted by Ramones-style punk rock, and dropping straight into a psycho-billy "Stampede" -- you're only a few minutes in, and the right-brained invasion force of Blaster the Rocket Man has already decimated your defenses. Genius? Definitely. At least in the same sense that Victor, Shelley, and the Pod People were geniuses. On a sonic level, imagine a hyper blend of Rocky Horror Picture Show, old Werewolf movies, Kennedys, Elvis, Pistols, Femmes, Johnny Cash, and enough straight-faced grandeur and mockery to pull it off. The production is insanely good, the song selection is maddening, the lyrics are smart but loony, and the instrumental variety and mastery is driving me crazy. Everyone quit already with the 3 chord power-wuss-pop being passed off as "punk rawk!" If the true soul of punk rock could speak for itself, it would howl out to the full harvest moon, "I am Blaster! I am the Rocket Man!" So, this is what CREATIVE Christian music sounds like . . . if there is justice left in the world, this hairy composition will sell at least ten more units than any of the clone-disks Avalon and Petra ever released. You have to hear this disc to believe it.
Other coverage for this album
The Phantom Tollbooth 2000Reviewed by Michial FarmerWhat do you get when you cross The Ramones, The Crucified, Batman, Neverhood-era Terry Taylor, CS Lewis' space trilogy, They Might Be Giants, bad science fiction movies, Ninety Pound Wuss, and Paradise Lost? A rough version of Blaster the Rocketman's new album! I'm really not quite sure how to describe The Monster Who Ate Jesus. It's more bizarre and unnerving than any CD I've ever heard, but the…The Phantom Tollbooth 2000Reviewed by Josh SpencerIt was good to hear that one of the few interesting punk bands today, Blaster the Rocketboy, had signed with Jackson-Rubio and changed their name. Maybe their creativity and lyrical prowess would be given the production and direction it needed to break out of the indie sloppiness that plagued their first two releases. No such luck. The production is still muddy and the songs still sound all the…The Phantom Tollbooth 1999Reviewed by Todd BallardWith the exception of a few greats, Christian music boasts a hodgepodge of musical genres that do nothing more than mimic what the world is currently doing. But occasionally a band rises to show that we are a "peculiar people" and Blaster the Rocketman is indeed a peculiar group. Although reviewers and fans alike have often compared Blaster to the Dead Kennedys and the Dickies, there really isn't…Similar sounding releases
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