Lion is the first official release of the homemade tapes of Memphis musician, Scott Taylor. The earlier songs on this compilation were recorded when Taylor was only eighteen. The songs are most often bitter or ouright angry love songs or simply songs of longing. The songs have many layers of guitar effects, which gives what are somewhat recognizable Southern blues roots a dark psychedelic edge. Some of the homemade recordings on Lion found their way into the hands of David Shouse, who then asked the much younger Taylor to join his new band, which would later become known as The Grifters. Though Taylor was originally reluctant to use his Hot Monkey material in a band format, "Nothin' At All" would be recorded with A Band Called Bud, while "Need You" and "Another Song" would end up on the first two Grifters EPs

Extended play

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. It would be another five years before "Arizona" would appear on the Grifters' best-selling album, Crappin' You Negative

Crappin' You Negative

Crappin' You Negative is the third full-length album from The Grifters and was released on Shangri-La Records.-Track listing:# "Rats" - 3:46 # "Maps of the Sun" - 3:52 # "Dead Already" - 4:18...

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Track listing

1. "Blue Moon" 2:49 (instrumental)
2. "Arizona" 4:01
3. "Another Song" 3:15
4. "For You" 1:29
5. "Bringdown" 3:11 (instrumental)
6. "Dogshit" 2:56
7. "Salt Lick" 4:30
8. "Sew" 4:13
9. "Nothin' At All" 4:28
10. "Green Can O'Peas" 4:09 (instrumental)
11. "Baby Loves On Me" 3:14
12. "Need You" 3:16
13. "X-Ray Spex" 4:33

Hot Monkey

• Scott Taylor - vocals, guitars, bass, harmonica, drum machine, recorder, percussion, crickets.

Additional credits

• Inside artwork by Johnny Taylor
  Johnny Taylor (painter)
  Johnny Taylor is an American painter known for his colorful, pop culture-fueled paintings of "the heroes, the memories and memorabilia, and the pop art/graffiti/kitsch that make up America."...
  
   (no relation)
• The tail end of the fifth track features dialogue from the 1933 film, The Son of Kong
  The Son of Kong
  The Son of Kong is a 1933 American adventure film/monster movie produced by RKO Pictures. Directed by Ernest Schoedsack and featuring special effects by Buzz Gibson and Willis O'Brien, the film starred Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack and Frank Reicher...
  
  , spoken by Robert Armstrong
  Robert Armstrong
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   and Helen Mack
  Helen Mack
  Helen Mack was an American actress. Mack started her career as a child actress in silent films, moving on to Broadway plays, and touring the vaudeville circuit. Her greater success as an actress was as a leading lady in the 1930s...
  
  as well as some unintelligible dialogue running backwards:

• • 'Helen Mack as Hilda': ...Tony? Tony?
  • 'Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham': You'll never catch a monkey that way.
  • 'Helen Mack as Hilda': Did you ever catch a monkey?
  • 'Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham': Did I ever catch...? - Lady, you'd be surprised.