Live! at Tom's Strip-N-Bowl is a great collector's item featuring a drunken yet vicious live set by
The Mono Men performing at a buddy's bachelor party. The record (also available on CD sans fold-out bowling pins) includes three songs from 1994's
Sin & Tonic, as well as
Billy Childish's "Lie Detector," and some of
The Mono Men's best material from previous albums, like "Testify" and "Phantom on Lane 12." Though the sound quality of a bowling alley is not inherently conducive to a live recording, the liquored-up ambience is all
Mono Men.
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Matt Carlson, Rovi