Touch & Go - Songs About Fucking

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May 25, 2020 Sold Date

Aug 30, 2018 Start Date

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Artikel Name: Songs About Fucking
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: TOUCH AND GO RECORDS Titelanzahl: 14

Trackliste LP - 1

1. Big Black - Power of Independent Trucking 2. Big Black - Model 3. Big Black - Bad Penny 4. Big Black - L Dopa 5. Big Black - Precious Thing 6. Big Black - Columbian Necktie 7. Big Black - Kitty Empire 8. Big Black - Ergot 9. Big Black - Kasimir S. Pulaski Day 10. Big Black - Fish Fry 11. Big Black - Pavement Saw 12. Big Black - Tiny, King of the Jews 13. Big Black - Bombastic Intro 14. Big Black - He's a Whore

Beschreibung

Ever notice how rock bands tend to keep things interesting for themselves by pointlessly dragging out their songs and introducing awkward conceptual threads? Also, how many bands veil their subject matter in euphemisms to avoid being taken literally, to stay safe, or -- better yet -- to be "mysterious?" Big Black's final LP does the diametric opposite of both. Not only do the 14 songs here whip by with only one exceeding the three-minute mark, but each one is incisive enough to render a razor as effective as a butter knife. In sum: yowl, ching, thump-thump-screech. And, how could a title be more direct? The only band that had courage enough to be this direct was Spinal Tap, and that was for a song, not an album title. Songs About Fucking brought about a definite sharpening of the band's sound. Steve Albini's mangled screaming is at its most bileful, his and Santiago Durango's guitars don't meander, and the rhythm section of Dave Riley and Roland is more taut than at any point prior. Ugly characters line up in the songs like early arrivals at a monster truck rally. Most significantly, there's the murderer in "Fish Fry"; who else but Steve Albini could paint the picture of a man hosing out his truck after chucking a dead body from it into a nearby pond? The band left with more of a kling klang than a bang, bowing out with a reverent cover of Kraftwerk's "The Model." [The CD version adds the B-side of "The Model," a swell cover of Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore."] ~ Andy Kellman

Andy Kellman