Kottonmouth Kings
The Green Album Suburban Noize

by Curt Hauff
Staff Writer

Comments: For those of you unfamiliar to the Kottonmouth Kings, they are a tall drink of water. Horrible pun aside, the Kings are a time-tested band. Having formed in 1994, The Green Album marks the band's 11th album.

Stylistically, the Kottonmouth Kings sound like Snoop Dogg, Luniz or House of Pain. Many of the tracks have a slow, groove dance beat. The entire album probably gets huge play in the urban dance clubs. It's easy to visualize a floor full of sweaty bodies bumping and grinding to "Rock Like Us", a track that even promotes its popularity with the club scene in the opening line "Brand new shit for the club".

With album titles like Rollin' Stoned, Fire It Up, High Society and Hidden Stash I, II and III, there should be no surprise as to what the Kottonmouth Kings' main song subject is. In fact, there may not be another band in existence that writes more songs about the green than these guys.

Even the most hardcore hemp huggers might get tired of hearing about puffin' the cheebah. Over half of the songs on this album are about smoking weed. If you include songs about drinking and having sex, you've got about three songs left. Ironically, there aren't any songs about having the munchies.

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Track Listing:
1. Legacy
2. Blaze of Glory
3. Rock Like Us
4. Trippin'
5. Pack Your Bowls
6. K.O.T.T.O.N.M.O.U.T.H. Song
7. Don't Give a F*ck
8. Happy
9. Where I'm Going?
10. Puff N Tuff
11. Stand
12. Super Hero
13. Freeworld
14. What U in 4
15. Sex Toy
16. Rainfall
17. So Cal
18. Green Grass
19. Time
20. Plant a Seed

Hardrock Haven rating: 6.2/10