Logo
DiS Needs You: Save our site »
  • Logo_home2
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • In Photos
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Community
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • Blog
  • Community

THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CLOSED.

Please join the conversation over on our new forums »

If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive.

Houston 500

Queen Of The Crackwhores

Label: Global Warming Records Release Date: 08/12/2003

5283
agibbons by Anthony Gibbons December 9th, 2003

Sadly, 'Queen Of The Crackwhores', isn't Sir Cliff Richard’s new festive single but instead is the debut single from new Global Warming signings Houston 500.

'...Crackwhores' is a spitting, snarling beast of a record which celebrates young ladies who prostitute themselves for cocaine. As if to reinforce the message, the CD sleeve features a girl giving a bloke a blow job in a toilet, presumably to obtain money to buy some of Columbia’s finest. Then again she could be just looking for loose change in his pockets.

As well as exploring cocaine and prostitution, H500 delve into pornography ('Hey Red') and sing about sex with young girls ('Darkside') all the while making a filthy, Guns 'n' Roses 'Lies'-era racket which made this correspondent’s dog howl so loudly I thought someone had clamped his balls in a vice. Again.

So then, '...Crackwhores' is, as one would expect from a band who rehearse in a bomb shelter, an explosive offering which should make your Christmas go off with a bang.

  • 8
    Anthony Gibbons's Score
Log-in to rate this record out of 10
Share on
   
Love DiS? Become a Patron of the site here »


LATEST


  • Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025


  • Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024


  • Drowned in Sound is back!


  • Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Year: 2020


  • Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter


  • Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing



Left-arrow

Basement Jaxx at Academy, Birmingham, Fri 05 Dec

Mobback
5034

The Vines at Camden Electric Ballroom, Camden, Thu 19 Feb

Mobforward
Right-arrow


LATEST

    news


    Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025

  • 106149
  • news


    Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024

  • 106145

    news


    Drowned in Sound is back!

  • 106143
  • news


    Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Y...

  • 106141

    news


    Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter

  • 106139
  • Playlist


    Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing

  • 106138

    Festival Preview


    Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alterna...

  • 106137
  • Interview


    A Different Kind Of Weird: dEUS on The Ideal Crash

  • 106136
MORE


    feature


    No Surprises? 15 Classic Albums of 15 Years Ago

  • 82815
  • Interview


    From The Basement On A Television: DiS talks to...

  • 50010

    Interview


    The Magic, the Mundane and The Maccabees

  • 100676
  • news


    Can You Help?

  • 105927

    Interview


    "We became seminal for doing nothing": DiS meet...

  • 88284
  • Interview


    DiS Meets Tori Amos: "You have to be able to si...

  • 95677

    Albums of the Year


    Drowned in Sound's 16 Favourite Albums of 2016

  • 104334
  • Interview


    M.I.A.: "I'm not gonna stay on my couch in Norw...

  • 64973
MORE

Drowned in Sound
  • DROWNED IN SOUND
  • HOME
  • SITE MAP
  • NEWS
  • IN DEPTH
  • IN PHOTOS
  • RECORDS
  • RECOMMENDED RECORDS
  • ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
  • FESTIVAL COVERAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • MUSIC FORUM
  • SOCIAL BOARD
  • REPORT ERRORS
  • CONTACT US
  • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
  • FOLLOW DiS
  • GOOGLE+
  • FACEBOOK
  • TWITTER
  • SHUFFLER
  • TUMBLR
  • YOUTUBE
  • RSS FEED
  • RSS EMAIL SUBSCRIBE
  • MISC
  • TERM OF USE
  • PRIVACY
  • ADVERTISING
  • OUR WIKIPEDIA
© 2000-2025 DROWNED IN SOUND