title: Buster's Spanish Rocketship
text: # Buster's Spanish Rocketship
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
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  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Robert Christgau | |
  
  Buster's Spanish Rocketship is an album by Buster Poindexter, the alter ego of singer David Johansen. Following ...Rocketship, Johansen returned to recording albums under his real name.
  
  The album was named after Buster's new backing band.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  The Sun-Sentinel wrote: "Turning his slightly jaded eye toward salsa, merengue and the most broken Spanish ever spoken, Buster brings on the bongos and dancing girls." Tulsa World thought that "his voice is giving out, but his spicy reverie will always flip skirts up."
  
  AllMusic wrote that "the Latin-tinged Buster's Spanish Rocketship is a minor triumph, demonstrating that David Johansen has an ear for material and a self-deprecating sense of humor that keeps Poindexter enjoyable."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks composed by David Johansen.
  
  * "Ondine" – 2:55
  * "Nueva Broadway (They Don't Smoke)" – 4:18
  * "Downtown Dream" – 4:10
  * "Inez (Is Just a Big Rage Queen)" – 4:13
  * "The Closer I Get to Heaven" – 4:15
  * "My First Sin" – 4:28
  * "Let's Take It Easy" – 3:43
  * "Linda Lee" – 3:41
  * "Iris Chacon" – 3:43
  * "Skin & Bones" – 3:36
  * "Mean Spirited Sal" – 4:17
  * "Lay Down" – 3:42
  * "Rhumba (Dance Fever)" – 5:56
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Buster Poindexter – vocals
  
  The Banshees of Blue
  
  * Soozie Tyrell – vocals
  * Richard Barone – vocals
  * Brian Koonin – guitar, cuatro
  * Jack Bashkow – saxophone, piccolo
  * Kenny Fradley – trumpet
  * Byron Stripling – trumpet
  * Mark Pender – trumpet
  * Conrad Herwig – trombone
  * Jimmy Bosch – trombone
  * Randy Andos – bass trombone
  * Charlie Giordano – accordion, piano
  * Andy Gonzales – bass
  * Brian Hamm – bass
  * Tony Machine – drums
  * Fred Walcott – percussion
  * Ismael "Bongo" Bruno – percussion
  * Mike Jacobson – percussion
  