Hulk Hogan and The Wrestling Boot Band - Hulk Rules
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Artist: Hulk Hogan and The Wrestling Boot BandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-01-01
Music Label: Select Records
Soundtracks:
- Hulkster's in the House
- American Made
- Hulkster's Back
- Wrestling Boot Traveling Band
- Bad to the Bone
- I Want To Be A Hulkamaniac
- Beach Patrol
- Hulk's The One
- Hulkster in Heaven
- Hulk Rules
Music reviews of Hulk Rules
Music Review: Let's get serious here.
Rating: 2 Stars
This is a music cd done by Hulk Hogan and his band "Wrestling Boot Band" in the mid 90's. Jimmy Hart and Hulk's wife, Linda, were among the people on here.
Hogan said in his autobiography that the reason his wife ended up on the cd was because it turned out that she was better than the background singers that were originally brought in. That's a scary thought.
The notable thing is that Hogan was a bass player in a cover band (classic rock, mostly) long before making it into wrestling. Jimmy Hart had apparently been a member of an oldies group called The Gentry's.
Let's get right down to it. I'm going to give the first serious review anybody has written for this cd. For starters, this is not the greatest cd of all time. Most of these songs are forgettable.
The songs run the gamut from rock to pop to rap. They range in tempo from slow to fast, soft to heavier. Everything on here is awfully dated. It's 80's rap beats, 80's guitar riffs, 80's keyboards, the whole nine yards. And this from a cd released in the mid 90's. The pop songs sound like music you'd hear on the soundtrack of "The Neverending Story" (the first movie). The rock songs sound like The Outfield. The rap songs sound like a second rate version of The Fat Boys.
Some songs on here are funny, mostly due to the fact they are so cheesy. My favorite on the disc is actually "Bad to the Bone." It is an original song (not the George Thorogood one) written by Hogan's band and it is sung by Jimmy Hart. The vocals sound a lot like the mid 80's ZZ Top material, minus the synthesizers and adding in heavier guitars. The motorcycle-revving intro also makes you chuckle, very 80's metal. But it is better than mediocre.
Another notable track is "Beach Patrol", which is the best one on the disc if you and friends are looking for something to goof on. Hogan is rapping about how 'dudes' better stay away from his girls. Then the chorus is sung by a nasally Jimmy Hart. It sounds like something The Fat Boys would have recorded as album filler back in the 80's. A little above average.
"Hulkster in Heaven" is a ballad about a young Hogan fan who was invited to sit front row by Hogan at a show in the UK. Hogan wrestled the show when it took place and looked in the section expecting to see the fan and the seat was empty. It turns out he had died. The lyric: 'Guess there'll be an empty seat when I wrestle at Wembley' comes from that.
"Hulkster's in the House" leads off the album and features awful lyrics. They go something like this: "We're rockin' down the house, the band is playin' loud, we're blowin' off the roof......."
I expected something a little different because a lot of wrestling fans and writers talked about the legitimate talent Jimmy Hart had, as a musician.
Hulk Hogan's WCW entrance music is also included here, which makes this cd a convenient way to get that song.
Pretty much everything else here is very forgettable.
This is one of those cd's that are good to add to your collection if you are a younger fan or liked the WWF (not WWE) or WCW in the 80's and early 90's, before people like Mankind, Triple H, Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold Steve Austin changed the face of wrestling and put THIS era in the graveyard. It also helps if you like Hulk Hogan.
I like Hulk Hogan and own this cd, but let's be real here. This is no better than any other wrestling cd out there, and actually pales in comparison to all those WWF/WWE cd's ("The Music," "Full Metal", etc.) which contain the superstar entrance themes. Being honest, the only wrestling albums I've heard out there that rank below this would be those 'Slammin' Wrestling Hits' or 'Extreme Wrestling Hits' type of cd's which came out a few years back with fake, second-rate versions of WWF and WCW entrance themes (look them up on here).
The good points:
To the credit of Hogan, though, this album is better than "Wrestlemania: The Album" which I have also reviewed. Check it out.
Something else worth noting is the very reason I gave this 2 stars, instead of one. Looking at the cd booklet and listening to the songs, you can tell Hulk and Jimmy had a lot of fun recording this cd and put their hearts into it, for better or worse. That does count for something. Even if it is full of hokey songs.
You also have to appreciate the fact that Hogan was ambitious enough to play with a few different styles on here, not just rock, pop or rap. At least all of the songs don't sound the same.
This is also the sort of thing that would be up the alley of somebody who hosts a college radio show and likes playing off-the-wall, novelty type stuff like this as a goof or to make fun of it.
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