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Buster Goes Berserk is the second album by Buster Poindexter, an alter ego of singer David Johansen. It was released in 1989 by RCA Records. The version of "Hit the Road Jack" also appeared on the soundtrack to The Dream Team.
Members of the cast of Sarafina! performed on the album. "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well" is a cover of the song made famous by Wynonie Harris. "International Playboy" is a cover of the Wilson Pickett song.[
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Robert Christgau wrote that "Buster's no better at bigtime schmaltz than David was."[8] The Los Angeles Times determined that "this ice-breaking-if scarcely ground-breaking-disc is still a purr-fect poolside party platter for too-hepcats 'n' snake-hipped kittens as well as fine, fine, superfine grist for the live show's gin mill."[9]
The Washington Post deemed the album "lite beer beach music."[10] The New York Times concluded that "the best cuts are those that suggest scenes from a wild party in progress where the host is the rambunctious, half-pickled singer, who has immersed himself in the persona of a funky soul man."
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