VINYL FORMAT. 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...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The first REAL Big Black record, and it's a killer. Crunchy, spastic driving guitar noise from Albini and Santiago Durango, combined with Jeff Pezatti's driving bass, gives us the first hint of what Big Black will go on to achieve. Alas Roland doesn't appear on this recording, his spot being filled by Pat Byrne, who, while an admirable drummer, lacks Roland's wild and almost improvisational playing style.

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VINYL FORMAT. Sensibly the most developmental and skeletal of Big Black's releases, Steve Albini's first official contribution to the rock world is a batch of sparse, minimal new wave recorded cheaply in two different apartment locations. With the exception of some sax provided by John Bohnen, everything is done by the young Albini, then a student at Northwestern. Not-so-pleasant views of morality ("I Can Be Killed"), post-mortem fornication with an army vet ("Dead Billy"), and primal living ("Steelworker"...   [ read more ]

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