Nervous Gender - Music from Hell
#306
1981 Housekeeping
Nervous Gender
Music from Hell
Genre: Electro-Punk
1.25 out of
Lowlights:
Bathroom Sluts (The less said about this the better)
“The entire contents of this album were recorded on a Toshiba RT-8200a portable cassette recorder and a Sankyo STD-1700 cassette deck. Our most outrageous thanks to Mr Mike Fox for his fidelity recuperation tactics. This album was recorded and mixed in a span of 36 hours (mistakes and all).”
Well, that’s sort of amazing. As is a lot of this. It’s more like performance art than it is actual music. I kind of want to take these songs and play them, as they are, and have actors wearing white unitards do interpretive grid-dancing against in a black box with the exit doors locked while pumping nitrous oxide in.*
After about 10 minutes any novelty wears off and then it’s just Crass with keyboards. “Fat Cow” is sort of hilarious, tho.
The second half of this record, Beelzebub Youth, is like listening to animals die in a slowly boiling cauldron of Duck Fat.
*Apocryphal story: Legend has it that Stuart Gordon did this to an audience in his early theater days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZ7nTTLP1s
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