Motel California

MOTEL CALIFORNIA
 
 
Motel California  is the third album by the American rock band Ugly Kid Joe.  The CD was released on October 22, 1996.  Motel California is the last full-length studio album until 2015.  They disbanded in January 1997 and reformed in January 2010.  The title is a parody of the Eagles’ album, Hotel California.  The song “Rage Against the Answering Machine” is a pun on the name of the Los Angeles rock band Rage Against the Machine.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Ugly Kid Joe, America’s Least Wanted – Allmusic describes Ugly Kid Joe as a “fun-loving hard rock/funk/alt-metal group from Southern California”.  To find the fun, you don’t have to go any further than the band name (a takeoff on “Pretty Boy Floyd” – actually a band by that name, Pretty Boy Floyd, not the Depression-era outlaw) or their album names that have similar word play, such as this one plus Menace to Sobriety, Motel California, and Stairway to Hell (with the latter album released just two years ago). 
 
(December 2015)