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John Spithead @[email protected] · 2025-10-26 · 23:55 UTC

Swamp Dogg - Rat On!

I like a record that seethes with anger. Swamp Dogg is an artist who, despite his often clownish persona, has a foundation of rage, and – when that breaks through – he seethes so well.

This album, for example, is more famous for it’s sleeve, which always features in those worst record cover lists. However, it contains God Bless America For What – a song so simmering with rage, it's breathtaking. There’s no ambiguity about this one – no-one’s mistakenly singing along with this one at MAGA rallies. It’s a lyric that got him (what we would now call) shadow-banned by his record label and sued by Irving Berlin Foundation – all grist to the Swamp Dogg anger mill.

Rat On! is probably the quintessential Swamp Dogg album: it sits right at the intersection of soul, blues, rock and country, has songs about complicated personal entanglements, race, politics, a perfect cover version (The Bee-Gees’ Got To Get A Message To You), some kind of self-aggrandising statement in the sleeve notes, and an eccentric cover.

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#SwampDogg
#RatOn
#Soul
#Music

#music #nowplaying #soul #vinyl #raton #swampdogg

John Spithead @[email protected] · 2025-10-26 · 23:55 UTC

Swamp Dogg - Rat On!

I like a record that seethes with anger. Swamp Dogg is an artist who, despite his often clownish persona, has a foundation of rage, and – when that breaks through – he seethes so well.

This album, for example, is more famous for it’s sleeve, which always features in those worst record cover lists. However, it contains God Bless America For What – a song so simmering with rage, it's breathtaking. There’s no ambiguity about this one – no-one’s mistakenly singing along with this one at MAGA rallies. It’s a lyric that got him (what we would now call) shadow-banned by his record label and sued by Irving Berlin Foundation – all grist to the Swamp Dogg anger mill.

Rat On! is probably the quintessential Swamp Dogg album: it sits right at the intersection of soul, blues, rock and country, has songs about complicated personal entanglements, race, politics, a perfect cover version (The Bee-Gees’ Got To Get A Message To You), some kind of self-aggrandising statement in the sleeve notes, and an eccentric cover.

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#SwampDogg
#RatOn
#Soul
#Music

#music #nowplaying #soul #vinyl #raton #swampdogg

John Spithead @[email protected] · 2025-10-26 · 23:55 UTC

Swamp Dogg - Rat On!

I like a record that seethes with anger. Swamp Dogg is an artist who, despite his often clownish persona, has a foundation of rage, and – when that breaks through – he seethes so well.

This album, for example, is more famous for it’s sleeve, which always features in those worst record cover lists. However, it contains God Bless America For What – a song so simmering with rage, it's breathtaking. There’s no ambiguity about this one – no-one’s mistakenly singing along with this one at MAGA rallies. It’s a lyric that got him (what we would now call) shadow-banned by his record label and sued by Irving Berlin Foundation – all grist to the Swamp Dogg anger mill.

Rat On! is probably the quintessential Swamp Dogg album: it sits right at the intersection of soul, blues, rock and country, has songs about complicated personal entanglements, race, politics, a perfect cover version (The Bee-Gees’ Got To Get A Message To You), some kind of self-aggrandising statement in the sleeve notes, and an eccentric cover.

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#SwampDogg
#RatOn
#Soul
#Music

#music #nowplaying #soul #vinyl #raton #swampdogg

John Spithead @[email protected] · 2025-10-26 · 23:55 UTC

Swamp Dogg - Rat On!

I like a record that seethes with anger. Swamp Dogg is an artist who, despite his often clownish persona, has a foundation of rage, and – when that breaks through – he seethes so well.

This album, for example, is more famous for it’s sleeve, which always features in those worst record cover lists. However, it contains God Bless America For What – a song so simmering with rage, it's breathtaking. There’s no ambiguity about this one – no-one’s mistakenly singing along with this one at MAGA rallies. It’s a lyric that got him (what we would now call) shadow-banned by his record label and sued by Irving Berlin Foundation – all grist to the Swamp Dogg anger mill.

Rat On! is probably the quintessential Swamp Dogg album: it sits right at the intersection of soul, blues, rock and country, has songs about complicated personal entanglements, race, politics, a perfect cover version (The Bee-Gees’ Got To Get A Message To You), some kind of self-aggrandising statement in the sleeve notes, and an eccentric cover.

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#SwampDogg
#RatOn
#Soul
#Music

#swampdogg #raton #vinyl #soul #nowplaying #music

John Spithead @[email protected] · 2025-10-26 · 23:55 UTC

Swamp Dogg - Rat On!

I like a record that seethes with anger. Swamp Dogg is an artist who, despite his often clownish persona, has a foundation of rage, and – when that breaks through – he seethes so well.

This album, for example, is more famous for it’s sleeve, which always features in those worst record cover lists. However, it contains God Bless America For What – a song so simmering with rage, it's breathtaking. There’s no ambiguity about this one – no-one’s mistakenly singing along with this one at MAGA rallies. It’s a lyric that got him (what we would now call) shadow-banned by his record label and sued by Irving Berlin Foundation – all grist to the Swamp Dogg anger mill.

Rat On! is probably the quintessential Swamp Dogg album: it sits right at the intersection of soul, blues, rock and country, has songs about complicated personal entanglements, race, politics, a perfect cover version (The Bee-Gees’ Got To Get A Message To You), some kind of self-aggrandising statement in the sleeve notes, and an eccentric cover.

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#SwampDogg
#RatOn
#Soul
#Music