Your Filthy Little Mouth

David Lee Roth’s fourth studio album, released a full decade after his departure from Van Halen, was a surprisingly varied effort. Produced by Chic co-founder Nile Rodgers, who’d previously helped David Bowie, Duran Duran, and Madonna expand their sonic parameters, Your Filthy Little Mouth offered a variety of sounds beyond the expected hard rock crunch (though the single, “She’s My Machine,” offered a modern version of that). Country singer Travis Tritt showed up for a duet on “Cheatin’ Heart Café,” “A Little Luck” was beer-commercial soul in the vein of late ’80s Steve Winwood; the title track was a hard-driving mix of jump blues and hard rock; and there’s a surprisingly heartfelt version of Willie Nelson’s “Night Life.” Just skip over the reggae track (“No Big Ting”) and you’ll be fine.