June 9, 2015 Playlist

   
Eighties/Nineties Underground Flashback for
PLEDGE DRIVE
  
"Songs About Fucking" by Big Black (1987)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Big Black  "Songs About Fucking"  1987 (USA)
This week is pledge drive on WORT, so we're having a time capsule special featuring underground music of the 1980's and 90's and the CAOTW is by one of the most notorious underground bands of that era. Big Black was the warped brainchild of Steve Albini, mostly famous as a record "engineer" (he doesn't like to be called a producer), and this was his first band later followed by the short-lived Rapeman and long-running Shellac. The concept was fairly radical, though in some ways Big Black was merely the punk rock version of Kraftwerk: two guitars and a bass than sound like machines and a drummer "Roland" who literally was a machine. On top of this tightly constructed racket, Albini rants about scary "true crime and real sleaze" which puts BB squarely in the "pigfucker" camp of 80's underground rock alongside luminaries like Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid and Killdozer (all of these artists were on Chicago's Touch & Go records).
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Artist Song Album Year Country
The ClashHatefulLondon Calling1979
UK
Camper Van BeethovenGood Guys And Bad GuysCamper Van Beethoven1986
USA
Talking HeadsRadio HeadTrue Stories1986
USA
Joy DivisionTransmissionA-side 7" single (Substance compilation)1979
UK
 
 
Mission Of BurmaThat's When I Reach For My RevolverSignals, Calls And Marches EP1981
USA
MinutemenThe CheerleadersProject: Mersh EP1985
USA
Meat PuppetsLostII1984
USA
Dinosaur jr.Freak SceneBug1988
USA
The BreedersNew YearLast Splash1993
USA
Elvis Costello (R)The ImposterGet Happy!!1980
UK
   
 
The ReplacementsHaydayHootenanny1983
USA
CowsHitting The WallPeacetika1991
USA
Tar BabiesVicesFried Milk1987
USA
KilldozerTake The Money And Run (Steve Miller Band)For Ladies Only1989
USA
Husker DuLove Is All Around (Theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Sonny Curtis)B-side 7" single1985
USA
   
 
Big BlackErgotSongs About Fucking
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1987
USA
Big BlackFish FrySongs About Fucking
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1987
USA
Big BlackThe Model (Kraftwerk)Songs About Fucking
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1987
USA
Butthole SurfersLady SniffPsychic, Powerless . . .  Another Man's Sac1984
USA
The Jesus LizardWhirlLiar1992
USA
Sonic Youth & Lydia LunchDeath Valley '69Bad Moon Rising1985
USA
   
 
MetallicaHit The LightsKill 'em All1983
USA
SlayerEvil Has No BoundariesShow No Mercy1983
USA
SodomSepulchral VoiceIn The Sign Of Evil1984
Germany
Von LMOFuture LanguageFuture Language1981
USA
MelvinsLet God Be Your GardenerOzma1989
USA
Black FlagBlack CoffeeSlip It In1984
USA
 
  
Public EnemyDon't Believe The HypeIt Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back1988
USA
Cypress HillPigsCypress Hill1991
USA
Dr. DreThe Day The Niggaz Took OverThe Chronic1992
USA
Ice-TRace WarHome Invasion1993
USA
NasLife's A BitchIllmatic1994
USA
 
  
Shonen KnifeLazybone7121991
Japan
BeckSatan Gave Me A TacoStereopathetic Soul Manure1994
USA
PavementShoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)Watery, Domestic EP1992
USA
Royal TruxAviator BluesSingles, Live, Unreleased (compilation)rec. 1994
USA
My Bloody ValentineBlown A WishLoveless1991
Ireland/UK
StereolabParsecDots And Loops1997
UK/France
 
  
PrinceSign 'O' The TimesSign 'O' The Times1987
USA
      
   
   
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