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Songs About Fucking (CD)

By: Big Black (Artist)

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Big Black Artist Snapshot:

Led by famed engineer/producer Steve Albini, Big Black was one of the premier bands of the Chicago underground scene of the 1980s, creating a neo-industrial sound comprised of drum machine-generated beats and screaming, metallic guitars. Big Black's abrasive brand of noise rock was made all the more so by lyrics that dealt frankly with race, sex, and violence. Since the band's break-up in 1987, Steve Albini has gone on to form Rapeman and Shellac, and produce bands such as Nirvana, Bush, the Pixies, and Led Zeppelin.

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DISC 1 for Songs About Fucking (CD) Album By Big Black (Artist)
1   Power Of Independent Trucking, The
2   Model, The
3   Bad Penny
4   L Dopa
5   Precious Thing
6   Columbian Necktie
7   Kitty Empire
8   Ergot
9   Kasimir S. Pulaski Day
10   Fish Fry
11   Pavement Saw
12   Tiny, King Of The Jews
13   Bombastic Intro
14   He's A Whore
 

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Review

Spin (5/01, p.112) - Ranked #41 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Steve Albini's 1st band quits while it's ahead, cranks the guitars to 'liquefy' and the jokes to 'immolate,' feeds the corpse to the drum machine, and then kicks it a few times..."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/01, p.115) - "...The sound of a band hurtling towards its own destruction and relishing every second. A breathless tumult of programmed drums, shredding guitars and bad attitude...reaching a brutal apotheosis..."
NME (Magazine) (11/28/92, p.30) - 9 - Excellent Plus - "...the sound of a band with its foot lodged on the accelerator and headed straight for the wall. Beautiful..."

Title Note

Big Black: Steve Albini, Melvin Belli (guitar); David Michael Riley (bass).

SONGS ABOUT FUCKING, the last Big Black studio album, ups the aggression ante on almost every front. The music is more bombastic, the production is harsher, and the lyrics are even more confrontational, delivered even more stridently than before. Rather than riding out the inevitable process of decaying into a watered-down travesty of itself, the band was determined to leave as big a smear across the pavement on the way down as possible.

From the opening "The Power Of Independent Trucking," a hopped-up crash course through the intersection of punk and industrial, Big Black takes no prisoners. A cover of Kraftwerk's "The Model" shows that no cow is too sacred for Albini, as does the disc's bonus track, a stunningly fuzzy cover of "He's A Whore," originally by fellow Chicago-ans, Cheap Trick. The clanging "Fish Fry" is a charming assault addressing the topic of murder at a drive-in. The band even provides its very own theme song, a 35-second bruiser called "Bombastic Intro." Rarely has a mere album been so brutal. SONGS ABOUT FUCKING can be cited as an indelible influence on the mid-to-late-'90s glut of techno-industrial bands.

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