A completely wacked-out hodgepodge,
Tony Mentzer's
Smell My Finger sounds like what would happen if
the Bevis Frond and
Cheech & Chong teamed up for an album. The humor is plentiful and gleefully rude -- besides the indelicate title track, other gems include the freaky, tape-manipulated "Bet She'd Do Me for Coke" and the amusing faux country "Wake-n-Bake Morning" -- but
Mentzer is also a talented one-man band in the
R. Stevie Moore/Nick Saloman tradition, and in between sniggering jokes like "(That Girl's in Love With My) Monster Truck" (a rude shaggy-dog story set to a tune that's almost but not quite
the Surfaris' "Wipe Out") and a deliberately twee reggae-samba version of
Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" are some suitably lysergic freakouts that keep the album from being just a
Ween-style bunch of dopey (in all senses of the word) musical giggles. ~ Stewart Mason