Rock
n Roll Creation (Megaphone, 1977): Tap ventures
into heavy metal tunes with religious themes. According to a review
read to the band by Marty DiBergi during "This is Spinal
Tap": "This pretentious ponderous collection of religious
rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, 'What day did the
Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day
too?' " Official band biographer scoffs: "Score one
for the bean-counters. A shoddy collection of rejected tracks
after the band's much publicized lawsuit against Megaphone."
Includes off-key version of Tap's rarely performed punk song,
"Young, Smug and Famous." No rating. (IST) Title song
rereleased on 1984 soundtrack album. Mistakenly referred to by
DiBergi in documentary by its working title, "The Gospel
According to Spinal Tap." The band would later concede that
the album had been "underlooked, underbought and underrecorded."
It also revealed that the album originally had been scheduled
to be recorded using 16 tracks, but that an engineer at the recording
studio sold four of the tracks to another band. (DV) See also
Pod.