• Yeah, it's an old dirty pun. Think about 'liquor', pronounced like 'lick her', and 'poker' is pronounced like 'poke her'.
• Liquor Up Front, Poker in the Rear is the perfect book for any occasion where a little bawdy humor is appropriate! Never again be caught.

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Liquor in the Front (subtitled Poker in the Rear) is the third album by The Reverend Horton Heat. It was jointly released by Sub Pop and Interscope Records in July 1994. Al Jourgensen (of Ministry-fame) produced the album.

The song 'In Your Wildest Dreams' (along with 'The Reverend' himself) was featured in a Homicide: Life on the Street episode from season four, entitled 'Full Moon'. In addition, 'I Can't Surf', 'Baddest of the Bad' and 'Big Sky' appeared in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Tony Hawk's Proving Ground and Free Willy 3: The Rescue respectively.

The album title is from a double entendre, 'Liquor ('lick her') in the front, poker ('poke her') in the rear'.

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Jim Heath except as noted.

1. 'Big Sky' – 3:07
2. 'Baddest of the Bad' – 2:27
3. 'One Time for Me' – 3:30
4. 'Five-O Ford' – 2:29
5. 'In Your Wildest Dreams' (Heath/Wallace) – 2:58
6. 'Yeah, Right' – 2:44
7. 'Crusin' for a Bruisin' – 3:20
8. 'I Could Get Used to It' – 1:58
9. 'Liquor, Beer & Wine' (Heath/Livingston) – 3:25
10. 'I Can't Surf' (Heath/Wallace/Bentley) – 2:41
11. 'Jezebel' (Shanklin) – 3:11
12. 'Rockin' Dog' – 2:38
13. 'The Entertainer' (Joplin) – 1:14

Personnel[edit]

• Jim 'Reverend Horton' Heath – vocals, guitar
• Jimbo Wallace – upright bass
• Taz Bentley – drums
• Tim Alexander – keyboards, accordion
• Al Jourgensen – producer, pedal steel guitar, piano, vocals
• Siavoch Ahmadzadeh – assistant engineer
• Keith Rust – assistant engineer
• Jeff Lane – assistant mix engineer
• Barry Goldberg – assistant mix engineer
• Eddy Schreyer – mastering
• Kim Holt – art direction + design
• Michael Lavine – band photos
• Mosquito – cartoon illustrations

Chart positions[edit]

Album[edit]

Singles[edit]

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'Liquor in/up (the) front, poker in (the) rear/back” is a bar sign saying that has been put in T-shirts and other gift items. The joke plays upon the words “liquor” ('lick her') and “poker” ('poke her').
“Liquor in front, poker in back” and “liquor in the front and poker in the rear” have both been cited in print from 1984.
Yahoo! Answers
Where did “liquor in the front, poker in the back” come from?
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Actually it’s “ liquor in the front, poker in the rear”. It’s an old double entendre probably from the old american west. It’s an obvious double meaning play on words bit describing both a saloon and how to best pleasure a woman sexually.
Back in Time Trading Post
SIGN a nice reprint of an old saloon sign. The sign is a heavy paper stock and reads “Brass Rail Saloon”, “Liquor In Front Poker In Rear” and “El Paso Texas”. It also has “Ace Printing Co.” and “14 JUL 31”. The sign measures about 9 1/2 inches across and is about 6 1/4 inches wide. The paper has browning for an aged appearance. El Paso officially became part of the USA in 1845 when Texas joined the Union and was orginally known as Franklin.
Google Books
Texas Crude:
The how-to on talkin’ Texan
By Ken Weaver
New York, NY: E. P. Dutton
1984
Pg. ?:
LIQUOR IN FRONT, POKER IN BACK.
Google Books
The Complete Book of Drinking Games
By Chugger Downs and E. Z. Buz
New York, NY: Tribeca Communications
1984
Pg. ?:
We witnessed this issue of variety most appropriately when we visited a bar whose welcoming sign read: “Liquor in the Front and Poker in the Rear.”
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Happy Hours
By Gary Smith
New York, NY: Harmony Books
1987
Pg. 68:
Taped to the cash register behind the bar was a magazine photo of a bare-bottomed playmate holding a sign that read “Liquor in the Front, Poker in the Rear.”
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Dirty Work
By Rob Kantner
New York, NY: Bantam Books
1988
Pg. ?:
The T-shirt read “Liquor in the Front, Poker in the Back.”
OCLC WorldCat record
Liquor in the front : poker in the rear
Author: Reverend Horton Heat; WEA Europe.; Carrère music.; Sub Pop ltd.; et al
Publisher: London : WEA Europe ; Le Blanc Mesnil : distrib. Carrère music, 1994 (P)
Edition/Format: Music CD : CD audio : English
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The Mammoth Book of Humor
By Geoff Tibballs
New York, NY: Carroll & Graf
2000
Pg. 242:
A good woman is like a good bar—liquor in the front and poker in the rear.

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