Big Black
 

Despite all the praise they get around here, I am yet to see a thread dedicated to them. My mum did not approve of the cover of "Songs About Fucking". She thought it was a porn album (audio porn?).
Anyhoo, discuss.

atomiser is still one of the most violent albums i've heard.

I'm listening to it now. It's very cool. Passing Complexion and Kerosene just kick so much ass.

Shallac are also good, but sound a bit different. At Action Park is a very good album.

Maybe he had been busy making the last shellac sound so fuckin' amazingly. The production on that is a miracle, uff. Never heard the stooges album, though.

swa(y) is right. awesome color's album was better than the stooges new album by a mile, sad to say.

Big Black is one of my all time faves. I think the tide is turning again in the underground music scene and that harsh abrasive yet interesting bands are making a comeback. I miss the days when big black, the butthole surfers, sionic youth were all skullfucking us to ecstasy with their mayhem, you know? what happened to the anger? emo drained the shit away by concentrating on bullshit love songs disguised as rebellion.

bring back the anger people!

Don't forget Rapeman!

speaking of cheap trick...

awesome "he's a whore" cover they did.

yeah, i love them, i love all bands albini has been involved in.

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I got that Rapeman album for cheap eons ago.
It still doesn't get a much play as "Racer X."
I love Big Black so much.
Shellac has never been as much to my liking.

shellac is the middle aged big black.

good good stuff. that song COPPER is a fucking beast of an animal.

Big Black, obviously, one of my all time favorite bands. My old band RUINHORSE (www.myspace.com/RUINHORSE) was essentially what we figured Big Black would sound like in the 00's. It's not my favorite Albini band (that'd be Shellac), but I really wish they'd re-release/remaster some of that old shit, because a lot of the rarities have been out of print for years.. I can just see "songs about fucking" remastered with essays and a really good-quality version of "Burning Indian Wife" (songs about fucking-era song and one of my favs). That'd be great.Anyway, Scissor Shock did a cover of "passing complexion", you can go download that at www.soundclick.com/scissorshockI have said this in another thread, but when I went to buy songs about fucking, my mom was standing there, so I didn't say the title.. she didn't care about picking it up after my order came in.. but I couldn't say "Fuck". I guess I've had that album uh... 6 or 7 years now..Now that I'm thinking about it, I tihnk I dig Rapeman a bit more than Big Black.. the only problem with Rapeman obviously being that they weren't around very long.Big Black were a band that really knew how to do covers... "In My House" is one of the best covers ever. And let's not forget their Kraftwerk cover (though bands who cover Kraftwerk almost always end up improving the song).

just got paid today, got me a pocketful of change...

I guess all Albini bands know how to do good covers, actually. Just Got Paid has such a fucking good riff!

i'm quite happy that rapeman weren't around very long, if they hadn't split there'd be no shellac and more importantly, NO JESUS LIZARD!

I was having dinner at a tiny restaurant in a tiny town in the middle of Montana this summer and I was wearing a Big Black shirt. The waiter surprised me by saying "Hey, do you like The Jesus Lizard?" When I said yes, he told me a story about how he accidentally urinated on David Yow after a JL show in the Netherlands; apparently this guy decided to pee off a bridge and Mr Yow was underneath him at the time. Needless to say, he got quite a reaction.

I bet he heard "YOW!!"

Atomiser is a fantastic album. It has such a raw and intense sound. They play like they really mean it.

Just Got Paid Again - what a riff!! Should put that song in the intros thread.

Fuck yes. I'm getting way more noisy and abrasive with my music, and I have no intention of easing up... only problem is that we have no fucking drummer... ours quit. SO... we might have to take the Big Black route hahaa... no, I wouldn't be able to live like that.\


Oh, and Big Black are one of my favourite bands... FUCK they rule.

I remember my mother and sister coming to visit me at one of the punk rock crash pads I lived in in the early '90s; you know the lay out: the stink of stale beer, wall to wall carpeting covered with paper match ends and bottle caps, pages ripped out of gun magazines stuck to the walls... and a copy of, yes, "Song About Fucking" proped up on the mantle over the non functional fireplace... Great band, so influential.