Wesley Willis - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Alternative Tentacles, 1995
Since the big boom of Christianity, people have been fretting over the return of Christ. People poured over their holy scriptures, drowned their children in water basins, made collection baskets heavy with their life savings, and knelt by their beds like begging whores to someone they have never seen to save their souls forgetting that some guy they all love has already done that for them. In their naiveté, they try to convince themselves that their Lord will come back and save their sorry asses a second time instead of taking responsibility for their wastefulness and destructive nature and make the world a truly better place. Why the hell would Jesus come back for their selfish asses?
Of course, no messiah would come right back and actually tell anyone that he is the Lord reincarnate. Jesus learned that the first time he went spouting out about how he’s the Son of God and all that fun stuff. Nobody likes a gloater. Nobody really likes crazy people all too much, either. We have to deal with crazy people, evangelists, PETA, and all things Disney. If Jesus came back, and he did, he’d get lost in the dredge of this crazy world, and he had. So what did Jesus do when he came back as a six-foot-plus, schizophrenic black man? He would spit in our face. And that’s what he did.
Wesley Willis is the voice of our times. We just don’t know it yet. I guarantee that sometime in the future someone will recognize his greatness and undergo a transformation of faith and write about it. All it takes is one push. Who wouldn’t want to worship such a man with such insight into the gluttony of America (“Rock n Roll McDonalds”) and the triumph over the darkness (“I Wupped Batman’s Ass”)? Listen and rejoice!
Review by Aaron
1. Rock n Roll McDonalds (2:29)
2. Larry Nevers / Walter Budzyn (2:44)
3. Rick Sims (2:30)
4. Outburst (2:47)
5. Chronic Schizophrenia (3:12)
6. Urge Overkill (2:10)
7. Skrew (2:07)
8. Tammy Smith (2:11)
9. Vampire Bat (2:42)
10. Elvis Presley (2:29)
11. The Chicken Cow (2:31)
12. Kris Kringle Was A Cat Thief (3.26)
13. Eazy-E (2:07)
14. Jesus Is the Answer (with the Wesley Willis Fiasco) (4:02)
15. He’s Doing Time In Jail (with the Wesley Willis Fiasco) (3:37)
16. I’m Sorry That I Got Fat (with the Wesley Willis Fiasco) (4:03)
17. Aftab Noorani (2:31)
18. Northwest Airlines (2:47)
19. I Wupped Batman’s Ass (3:29)
20. Who Killed John Columbo (3:14)
21. Stabbing Westward (2:21)
22. Richard Speck (2:26)
