Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper: Bo-Day-Shuss!!! (1987) (Signed)

Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper: Bo-Day-Shuss!!! (1987) (Signed)

Anyone who was on a college campus or even within earshot of one during the 1980s knew that something was happening musically, an evolution that emerged from rock’s 1960s whirlwind and its 70s excesses in production and its reactionary impulses in punk, one that saw a return to interesting songcraft and eclectic musicianship that defied old labels and demanded a new one, or more.

Bands like The Beat Farmers, Camper Van Beethoven, Green on Red, The Long Ryders, Violent Femmes and more were taking the 1980s into a different real altogether ignored the ascendence of hair metal and predated the arrival of grunge. Sometimes called ‘college rock’ for its airplay on college stations and sometimes just referred to as ‘alt rock’ or ‘proto-[fill in the blank],’ whatever one called it was a refreshing invigoration of a body of rock that was beginning to asphyxiate on formulaic production.

In the middle of all that innovation came the folk artists Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, who burned across campuses in the mid-1980s with oh so very politically incorrect numbers like Jesus at McDonalds, Moanin’ With Your Mama and Art Fag Shuffle.

By 1987 they were on Enigma Records — the headquarters of sorts for 1980s alt bands — and Mojo & Skid released their third and final studio album together: Bo-Day-Shuss!!! Working again to skewer popular culture, the pair scored a hit with Elvis is Everywhere which managed to make MTV even after Mojo had run into trouble with his banned sing-along dedicated to MTV VJ Martha Quinn, salaciously entitled (I Wanna Be) Stuffin’ Martha’s Muffin.

Enigma produced this official promotional poster for the release of the album and it was personally signed by Mojo who advised ‘Go Berserk!’ above his autograph.

Mojo & Skid parted company after this album and tour, Enigma Records would end with the decade it helped define and Mojo Nixon would drop dead of a heart attack in February 2024 while hosting and performing on an Outlaw Country Cruise while docked in Puerto Rico. He was honored at that year’s South by Southwest festival.

Dimensions: Twenty-four inches horizontally, Eighteen inches vertically (24 x 18”)

Condition: Excellent