#150
June 15 1984
KMFDM
Opium
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Splatter
The Smell
True Fact: One of the future drummers for KMFDM played on REM’s Accelerate and toured with them for that album.
I have to imagine it was Stipe who is the KMFDM fan.
This album is like repeatedly hitting yourself in the head with a lead pipe wrapped in a halibut dipped in battery acid.
But it’s just dipped. Not like it’s dripping in the acid. So, it burns but it doesn’t leave a permanent mark. And the pipe hurts, sure, but that’s really softened by the halibut and, you might even like the way that fish feels slamming onto your forehead and you won’t even realize that you are being knocked unconscious after the 4th or fifth blow.
All kidding aside, this is more accessible than Swans but not as mainstream as Nine Inch Nails (Who I swear was influenced by “Penetration” on this record), I was especially drawn in by the Reggae rhythms-meets-Industrial of “Cuntboy”. PiL never got to this point but I bet when Lydon heard it he was envious.
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