Aerosmith's New Album is called Honkin' On Bobo

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Anything that makes them stop pretending that they are still in their early 30s is a good thing.

Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 21 March 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

Except "Honkin' on Bobo" is Aerosmith slang for "Acting like we're in our early 30s."

m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Sunday, 21 March 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

naw, it's that they're hard of hearing - they meant to cover Nick Cave's "Knockin' on Joe"

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 21 March 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

Gross.

Famous Athlete, Sunday, 21 March 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

This delights me since my kitten's nickname is Bobo. "Honkin' on Bobo" is fun(ny) to say, too. I realize this has nothing to do with music...

Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Sunday, 21 March 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago) link

In this context it might do jeanne.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 21 March 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago) link

omg jeanne my old cat is named bobo too!

teeny (teeny), Sunday, 21 March 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link

Where did you two get the inspiration for the word "Bobo"? I don't think I ever heard the name until that Simpsons episode about Mr. Burns' teddy bear.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 22 March 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

Honkin on Bobo immediately makes me think of that terrible Whale song. Just thought I'd share.

___ (___), Monday, 22 March 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

I think Bobo is French origin, maybe? It's a name that connotes a sort of sweet harmless stupidity. There are plenty of Bobo The Clowns out there. Our Bobo was too stupid to get out of the garage and my dad accidentally parked on him but he was also apparently too stupid to die, he turned out just fine.

teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 March 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

I think bobo is the name of their Laser Engraved harmonica.

In any case, it couldn't get worse than "Just Press Play" and the robot woman thing.

Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Monday, 22 March 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago) link

According to their website, it's an album comprised entirely of Willie Bobo covers, with the band eschewing their usual instruments and vocals in favor of five part harmonica tunes.

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 22 March 2004 06:39 (twenty years ago) link

i wasn't aware there were terrible whale songs

cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 22 March 2004 08:12 (twenty years ago) link

Not being on that side of the Atlantic I can't be sure, but in Rick's Story in Cerebus , Dave Sim has Rick use 'bobbing on bobo' as a euphemism for oral sex. No idea how widespread it might be on that continent. Far be it for me to suggest that Aerosmith might use a sexual euphemism as an album title though... :-)

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 22 March 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

I'm actually looking forward to hearing this, and it's been a long, long time since I've said that about a new Aerosmith album.

Mark M, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago) link

I was actually excited until I heard song clips in their TV ad for the album. The choices are really obvious and the playing (admittedly only heard in snippets) wasn't particularly gripping.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago) link

So how exactly would that make it different than every other album they've done since *Done With Mirrors* again, Anthony? (Sorry; maybe I wasn't paying attention. This is supposed to be a blues record, right? So...does anybody out there really think it has any chance in hell of sounding more like "Big Ten Inch Record" than "Rag Doll"???)

chuck, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago) link

agh, I still think the post-DWM Geffen era singles are pretty great. Not as good as the '70s stuff, but I was introduced to these guys as aging Desmond Child pushers anyhow. Like Rod Stewart, I'm not offended by their dropping of certain traits over time cuz I didn't even know they had 'em until college.

But yeah it's a blues album. Check out the song choices...
1. Road Runner - 3:44
2. Shame, Shame, Shame - 2:15
3. Eyesight to the Blind - 3:10
4. Baby, Please Don't Go - 3:24
5. Never Loved a Girl - 3:12
6. Back Back Train - 4:23
7. You Gotta Move - 5:31
8. The Grind - 3:47
9. I'm Ready - 4:13
10. Temperature - 2:51
11. Stop Messin' Around - 4:30
12. Jesus Is on the Main Line - 2:48

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago) link

Steven Tylor is so god damned annoying. Every time I've seen him interviewed he does these annoying puns and lame double entendres and old timey "blue" vaudville jokes and I just punch him in the face.

David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

And unfortunately, "Shame, Shame, Shame" is apparently not a Shirley and Company cover.

chuck, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:23 (twenty years ago) link

Didn't fellow Bostonians Mr. Airplane Man just cover "Jesus is on the Mainline" a couple years ago, though? So, hmmm...maybe this is the equivalent of Robert Plant and John Mellencamp covering all those songs that White Stripes had already covered on THEIR recent blues albums (both of which were surprisingly good, to be honest)....

chuck, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

THEIR above = Plant & Mellencamp (not White Stripes, though their blues albums are okay too, I guess.)

chuck, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

Chuck, yes on the Mr. Airplane Man thing. And Teeny, just chalk up the Bobo thing to the fact that we're AWESOME. Okay, that's all.

Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

but mr airplane men are from cambridge.

kephm, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

i have no idea why i wrote that. i am a different person before 12noon

kephm, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...
who is the famale voice on "Back Back Train" and "Jesus is on the mainline?

Rafael Sabioni, Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link

I heard it today. Better than anything they've done since
the 70s.

Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

I'm actually dying to hear this now. A friend of mine loves it (one who acknowledges how shitty it sounds in the TV ad) and the reviews are pretty promising.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago) link

i stole an aerosmith t-shirt today

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

Tyler actually sounds okay, too; he's not "mugging" for the mic
like he so often does.

Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

I think Bobo is French origin, maybe? It's a name that connotes a sort of sweet harmless stupidity. -- teeny (teen...), March 22nd, 2004.

Yeah, same thing in Spanish. Kinda like calling someone dopey.

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:22 (twenty years ago) link

I LOVE the Mr Airplane Man version of "Jesus on the Mainline"!!! The whole song is one note!!

roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

The title of this album still cracks me up. The latest thing that amuses me about it is the hope that they would do a cover of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" but changed to "Honkin' On Bobo's Door."

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

honkin' on bobo

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link

bonkin’ on hobo

calstars, Friday, 19 June 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link

We need a ilx listening party for this gem

calstars, Friday, 19 June 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link

David Fricke of Rolling Stone magazine... considers the album to be overdone, which is what Aerosmith is good at.[11]

lol at the Wiki entry, but I agree. Blues tributes like this or The Stones' Blue & Lonesome just make me want to play the original versions.

Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Friday, 19 June 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link

Honk honk
Honkin' on a bobo

Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 June 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link

We're all Bobos on this bus.

Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Friday, 19 June 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link

stankin' on hooba

the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 19 June 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link

lol

calstars, Friday, 19 June 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link

I bought this for my Mom on Mother's Day. I remember taking it home and actually looking at the cover and being like "oh..."

frogbs, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link

honkin on oh no

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 June 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link

Ha, had totally forgotten about Bonkin' On Hobo, which I've never seen anywhere. Agree that overdoing is what Aerosmith were good at when they were good, but also bad at when they were bad, ditto the Stones, who could learn from and lift, folk-process Muddy Waters-type slide guitar, but also combine it with Watts beats, whichever-Stones falsetto, all the other parts Jones put in, then the right hired hands, incl. London Boys Choir, in his wake, with Jagger sounding totally into it, though"it" incl. perfectly crass, sincere, deadpan, corrugated-stylized (liked to tell interviewers that his name came from thieves with knives, like pursejaggers I guess). Bad Boys vs. still-cheeky Fab Four, like Aerosmith vs, Bee Gees in film of Sgt. Pepper's. Andrew Loog Oldham's liner notes in droogspeak. Pre-Baraka Leroi Jones quoted a friend, "At they sound like English crooks."
But more effective with what was tagged per se blues in with r&b, rock, etc., than when they came back with whole old man albums of blues. They were better when learning from their own club era set list, basically (and of course Robert Johnson, like others of the "songster" era, is now said by some to have had to mix it up, to be a traveling jukebox, to get gigs).
Suspect I'd think the same if I listened to this album.

dow, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link

Dow’s on the bennies again

calstars, Friday, 19 June 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link

72 bobos in paradise
and I honked them all

A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 21 June 2020 06:42 (three years ago) link

Honking Upon a Bobo
Bobo Honker
See My Bobo All A-honking
Take This Bobo and Honk It
Time to Honk (on a Bobo)
Oh To Be Honking on a Bobo
Walking, Talking, Bobo Honking
The Bobo That Got Honked On
Honking Bobo Style
One Honk, Two Honks, Three Honks on Bobo
Can't Get Enough of that Sweet Bobo Honk
Never Saw a Bobo I Wouldn't Honk On
Honktown, Population: Bobo
Bobo Honkers Unite
Honk That Bobo, Baby
We Want Bobo Honk
I See a Lot of Bobos but I'm Not Hearing Any Honking
Love to Honk on Bobo

the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link

Bobo Kept a Honkin’

calstars, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link

anybody try Joe Perry’s Rock Your World Boneyard Brew Hot Sauce?

brimstead, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link

I'm really enjoying the podcast A History Of Honks In 500 Bobos.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 7 August 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link

Honkin' on Bobo

— Junker von Tronka (@Junkervontronka) August 8, 2022

F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Monday, 8 August 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link

i hid my bobo
in the garden
i can't honk you
from the government

maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 8 August 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link

four months pass...

Honk the bo-bo
Let them know it’s Christmas time

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link

Hark The Herald Bobos Honk

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:05 (one year ago) link

Honkin’ around
The Christmas tree

Master of Treacle, Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link

We were fucking corndogs
We'd go honk our bobo

lol

Master of Treacle, Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link

Bobo I'm-a honk you
Bobo I'm-a knead you

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 18 December 2022 07:07 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

don’t you want some bobo to honk?
don’t you need some bobo to honk?
wouldn’t you honk some bobo… to honk?
you better find some bobo to honk!

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:28 (one month ago) link

today i was listening to johnny “hammond” smith and i was like, to myself, you know what? this actually HONKS

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:29 (one month ago) link

I can't decide which would be more hilarious/awful to listen to, but I'd like either jam band Goose or indie rock band Geese to record a full album cover of this.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:48 (one month ago) link

De honk honk honk
De Bo Bo Bo

calstars, Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:51 (one month ago) link

Watch me honk
Now watch me bobo

Watch me honk honk
Now watch me bobo

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2024 21:15 (one month ago) link

Honkoni plays the bobo, listen to the radio

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:41 (one month ago) link

Honk-ore une fois!

Bo-bo-bo-bo-b-bobo-b…

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 15 March 2024 00:27 (one month ago) link

Still hilarious

Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 15 March 2024 00:30 (one month ago) link

Bloodsucker, bobohonker
Bleedin' me dry, like a goddamn vampire

Bobo dea, honk?

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 15 March 2024 01:01 (one month ago) link

honkfuckers
honkfuckers
honkfuckers inboborated

Florin Cuchares, Friday, 15 March 2024 01:16 (one month ago) link

i’m still not a bobo, i just honk a lot

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 March 2024 01:21 (one month ago) link

Honk Marvin

Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Friday, 15 March 2024 01:59 (one month ago) link

"He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was honking on bobos just before she died."

De honk honk honk
De Bo Bo Bo

God bless you for this

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 15 March 2024 02:44 (one month ago) link

I was shocked to learn the other day that Honkin' On Bobo was the first Aerosmith album since Rock in a Hard Place to be produced by Jack Douglas, who did almost their whole 70s run (he was fired from Night in the Ruts).

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 15 March 2024 02:49 (one month ago) link

honkin'
honkin' on the gosh darn bobo
(honk honk, honkin' on the bobo)

Florin Cuchares, Friday, 15 March 2024 02:50 (one month ago) link

The honker of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde, sing and cry
Oh Bobo, I am coming

President Keyes, Friday, 15 March 2024 03:05 (one month ago) link

i’m so puerile i’da gone straight at that mfing snow/bobo rhyme

... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 March 2024 03:23 (one month ago) link

Honkoni plays the bobo, listen to the radio

^ gold

not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 March 2024 04:11 (one month ago) link

The killer awoke before dawn
He put his bobo on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he honked on down the hall

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 15 March 2024 06:24 (one month ago) link

Let's go.
We can't.
Why not?
We're honking for Bobot.

fetter, Friday, 15 March 2024 08:49 (one month ago) link

I don't want to hold her down
Don't want to break her crown
When she says, "Let's honk
I like the nightlife bobo"

Honkin’ on Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:11 (one month ago) link

Bobo, it's me.
I've thought about us for a honk honk time.

President Keyes, Friday, 15 March 2024 17:12 (one month ago) link

Into the boundary
Of each married man
Sweet deceit comes calling
And negativity lands

Bobo honk
Hard done by you
Some things look better, baby
Just passing through

CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:40 (one month ago) link

SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN
GRIPPING YOUR PILLOW TIGHT

EXIT: LIGHT
ENTER: NIGHT
TAKE MY HAND
WE’RE HONKIN' ON BOBO LAND

On the bobo again

calstars, Friday, 15 March 2024 17:51 (one month ago) link

Oh, honk an honk, an honk an honk
My bobo keeps moving like a rolling stone

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 15 March 2024 18:32 (one month ago) link

I've Got My Own Bobo to Honk On

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 15 March 2024 18:45 (one month ago) link

And honk you very much
Oh Mr. Robobo
For helping me escape
Just when I needed to
Honk you
Honk you, Honk you
I want to honk you
Please, honk you

President Keyes, Friday, 15 March 2024 18:50 (one month ago) link

Honk Me Tender

calstars, Friday, 15 March 2024 18:54 (one month ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTXWFrcw2o

BrianB, Friday, 15 March 2024 19:00 (one month ago) link

lol grisso-

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to bobo honkin land!

― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, May 7, 2022 12:29 PM

i like your thinking, friend. keep up the good work!

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:31 (one month ago) link

anyway, back to our regularly scheduled agenda. in honor of his return to streaming-

"LOOK OUT MAMA THERE'S A WHITE BOAT HONKIN UP THE RIVER! WITH A BIG RED BOBO AND A FLAG AND A MAN ON THE RAIL!"

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:42 (one month ago) link

Ten silver bobos
A bass with a honk

calstars, Thursday, 21 March 2024 23:28 (one month ago) link

Huh

The wiki was recently (2022) updated to mention this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uflF1RvngxE

Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 21 March 2024 23:53 (one month ago) link

Yeah, yeah it's sick that, yeah that's good.
Wait hold on a minute, pull it up, stop.
You know what you wanna do with that right,
You wanna put a bangin' honk on it!

Siegbran, Friday, 22 March 2024 10:04 (one month ago) link

cos if you bobo then you shoulda put a honk on it

CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 March 2024 14:23 (one month ago) link

You can do it, honk your bobo into it

President Keyes, Friday, 22 March 2024 14:49 (one month ago) link


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