Album Review : Music For Lapdancers - The Fighting Cocks**** Mrs YS walked in whilst I was listening to this. "It's like a bunch of kids messing around in their bedroom," she said. Is that a bad thing ? Sure, the Cocks music is, eclectic ? An acquired taste ? Off the wall ? Look, John Peel would have liked it and if Chris Moyles ever heard them he'd hate them, and surely that's reason enough to buy a copy. The Fighting Cocks actual style of music is a hybrid of dance and punk with a leaning towards Gogol Bordello's manic modern folk style, they describe themselves as sounding like a punch up at a Balkan wedding. There are lots of samples, chanting, weird lyrics, drum machine bits, folky bits, guitar bits, it's all a bit chaotic in a rather fun way. Music for Lapdancers contains 20 tracks, every one of which deserves to be a monster smash hit single, oh no, what am I talking about, they're far too strange to appeal to most. There are some belting tracks on here though, No Candy is great, poppy and infectious, Come Get Some and Smoke 'Em If Ya got 'Em are similarly upbeat and fun, and the 'cover' of Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three's The Roof Is On Fire (also covered by The Bloodhound Gang) is great, and yes, there's lots of swearing. This is a good album if your tastes run out to the decidedly non-mainstream, dance / punk / fun / whatever, I like it.