So Ugly Kid Joe Is Back

Hold the phone! Ugly Kid Joe Is Back... and they just released a lyric video for their song "Hell Ain't Hard To Find." The song is from the upcoming album Uglier Than They Used Ta Be, due October 16th via Metalville/UKJ Records. So yeah. I wasn't expecting this alert to land in my inbox, but there you go. The band is on a UK tour this month. I assume they'll play clubs in America soon.

Comments

[Ace Steele]

More like "Ugly Kid Joe is back... SO?"

[Metalboy!]

GENEROCK! The lyrics are complete nonsense delivered in an unremarkable almost spoken word flat sing-song style.

The riff ain't bad but they choked all the crunch out of it so that it sounds like sped up late 60's pseudo psychedelic Bay Area Hard Rock.

It doesn't get any more boring and uninspired than this, folks... which is why I HATED these guys in the first place. I'll take their arch enemies and inspiration for their band name, Pretty Boy Floyd, WAY over these as*clowns any day.

Just like their cartoon kid zombie logo implies, just when you thought they were dead and gone forever, they may actually never go away. Let this "comeback" be their final death throes. Yawn... zzzzzzzzzz...

[Mike]

I really liked their first batch of of albums, barring the 'novelty hit' that put them on the map, there were some really great tracks on "America's Least Wanted", "Menace To Sobriety" and "Motel California".

This new song is pretty uninspired, and does not make me want to hear any more new music from UKJ.

I guess some bands are best left in their respective era.

[Jason]

I'm with Mike. "I Hate Everything About You" is my least favorite song from these guys. I remember buying a promo copy of that first EP for a buck when it was released. Then that song exploded and the video was on MTV 20 times a day. I got sick of it and and sold the EP for a fiver (profit!). When the full album was released, I gave it a shot and liked it. I also liked all the albums that followed.

They've actually been sporadically active since 2012, and released an EP that same year. I don't think they've played more than a handful of dates in the US, but have been very active in Europe, Australia and South America. I still think it's odd that a band like this will do a 30-show tour in Europe but can't do any sort of proper tour in their homeland.

[Badland]

Not very impressed. Its ok. Waiting to hear the rest of the album. Really liked what they did up until Motel. Great live band and was even at the show when they fimed the video for So Damn Cool at The Basement in Dallas Tx. Saw them again in Vegas later on. Once you get rid of Hate Everything they jammed pretty good. I think they have like 7 people in the band now. Dont understand that.

[Bob]

These guys had some good songs back in the day, "Whiplash Liquor" being the best IMHO. This new song, however, just seems flat and uninspired.

[Jakki Steal]

I love everything from the debut EP & 'America's Least Wanted' but everything after that has sounded pretty generic.
I also bought there best of compilation but the only song that rocked on that CD that I didn't already have was there cover of Black Sabbath's "N.I.B.", which is bada$$.
This new song just ain't cutting it for me though.

[Metalboy!]

I agree, Jakki. I ruthlessly slammed these guys in my initial comment, but there's no denying their cover of Black Sabbath's "N.I.B." is really quite good. Of course, that may have something to do with the fact that they didn't write it.

Yet, when I first bought and listened to the brilliant "Nativity In Black" compilation upon it's release in 1994, I marveled at how great the Ugly Kid Joe version is, as well as Faith No More's cover of "War Pigs". There are other noteworthy versions of Black Sabbath songs with Type O Negative, White Zombie, Megadeth and Bruce Dickinson delivering the standouts.

As many here are probably well aware, there are two more subsequent "Nativity In Black" compilations released since, one in 2000 and a third in 2003, with more cool versions of Sabbath tunes by several bands not normally my cup of tea contributing, namely, Godsmack, Machine Head, Static X, System of a Down, Pantera, Primus with Ozzy (yes, even gawdawful Primus sound awesome backing the master himself). Slayer, Monster Magnet, Anthrax (the only good thing they've ever done besides their other covers of artists such as Joe Jackson and Cheap Trick) and the always amazing Savatage!