pussy galore

those records sound like shit

Dude, we're talking about Pussy Galore. If you want sonic clarity, go listen to Jean Michel Jarre, for cryin' out loud.

i always thought they were very artfully shitty. it takes talent to get stuff to sound good and shitty.

The guitar noise on Punch Out on Right Now is so fucking great. I should go and put that on now

I still agree with myfuckingself upthread: Historia still blows. I suspect that if it actually HAD been reissued with the other stuff, there would be no contention on this point.

But come on, those records sound like shit. Historia is just an amazing rock and roll record

Sounding like shit doesn't necessarily preclude an amazing rock and roll record. Better produced or not, though, Historia sounds like they gave up on the project before they entered the studio. Zzzzzzzzzzz. Rob Tannenbaum (I believe) wrote a remarkable review of it in Spin, though.

Then again, my taste re: Pussy Galore are unorthodox. I only love two of their records. Right Now! sounds like shit and is an amazing rock and roll record, most amazingly on "Punch Out," the Bad Boy to the NY Dolls' "Bad Girl."

And Dial M For Motherfucker is one of the greatest albums of the 1980s. It's the pig fuck It Takes a Nation, an ADD whole that exceeds the sum of its tape fuckery, stops and starts, voices ghosting in and out, songs midwiving other songs, repeated themes, DNA strand guitar solos, radio transmissions, phone conversations, beeps, bloops, buzzes, etc. All of which aids the Pussies in rockin' the fuck out. Gawd, I adore this record!

I actually saw the beginning of that House episode but didn't stick around to hear PG. Which Dial M For Motherfucker did he play? ("DWDA" fits the description best.)

The guitar noise on Punch Out on Right Now is so fucking great.

Ah! A consensus is forming!

But I played that very track for a student a few weeks ago and he didn't get it. I even banged my head a bit to underline the effect. No go.

Plus Dial M For Motherfucker is in the fine tradition of godlike albums with crappy posters inside, e.g. Daydream Nation (still another reason why vinyl >>>>> CDs...has a poster ever been smooshed into a CD? Prolly but I can't think of one right now. Right Now!)

Thank you, Kevin John Bozelka, for being right about things.

like the Workdogs if they were much, much better

yeah, sorta my impression. was kinda expecting more hagerty vocals and less Spencer ham. So I haven't really figured out what i think of yet.

God bless you Kevin John Bozelka. I didn't wanna be all contrarian, but Dial M is a serious masterpiece. Actually pretty tuneful, in a weird way. I was kinda surprised by how obnoxious DWDA sounded in the House episode, 'cause I never thought of it as *that* annoying. One of my favorite albums of the 80's as well.

i can't remember the last time i actually listened to pussy galore. it's been a long time. other than groovy hate fuck, which i feel is its own entity in a weird way, the 2nd side of sugarshit sharp is definitely the thing i have played most over the years. i can't understand anyone not loving that sequence of songs and the sound and everything about it. so amazing to me.

i'd probably like historia more now than when it came out. i LIKED it, but i didn't play it much. and i sold my copy years ago, so that must mean something. or it did at the time. i definitely thought it sounded cool.

OK, I didn't mean for this to become an aesthetic debate - I love the new Times New Viking, Sic Alps, all the prime ear Siltbreeze stuff, scratchy old blues 78s...I'm not against great music 'sounding like shit.' My problem with PG's albums are just that they render almost every song an incomprehensible blur. Dial M is an exception, I grant you, and a good record, but not as good as Historia. I don't like Sugarshit Sharp at all.

I stand by my opinion of Zen Arcade (don't liked it, never did), but offer Replacements's Tim as being an amazing album despite one of the worst production jobs in rock history.

It's probably worth noting that the original CD of Dial M included all of Sugarshit Sharp except for Yu Gong. As a result, I've always thought of SS as an extension of Dial M.

"I don't like Sugarshit Sharp at all."

but why? it's so good.

i always liked how tim sounded. and i love zen arcade. we have way different ears. which is cool.

"It's probably worth noting that the original CD of Dial M included all of Sugarshit Sharp except for Yu Gong."

that's just friggin' idiotic.

yeah, and the CD added a version of Devo's "Penetration Of The Centerfold" in its place! Which is even MORE idiotic! The only place I have that awesome version of Yu-Gung now is on my original cassette.

Groovy Hate Fuck has always been closest to my heart of any PG.

The only place I have that awesome version of Yu-Gung now is on my original cassette.
Me too. Bought it when Sound Warehouse went out of business. I don't have a cassette player hooked up right now, though.

My Sugarshit Sharp CD has both Yu Gung & Penetration In The Centerfold on it, I have the Mute reissues from the late 90s tho.

"Groovy Hate Fuck has always been closest to my heart of any PG."

What he said.

Pussy Galore Love!

Live In The Red is destroying me right now. I never got a chance to hear it before. Everything I could want in a live album. I hope there's a fight on side 2.

Yeah, s'great, and Slo Pig's on there, isn't it? Nice to have that official and all.

any fans of pussy galore,please get in touch wanted live audio/shows I don't have

I've just got these:

AUDIO
SHITHAUS(pre-PUSSY GALORE) 1984-85 "live crush" cassete?? 60'

demos 1985 20'

1985-86 Oven Bait(Original Version) 60' *

1985-86 Unauthorized Oven Bait ACR007 60'
1986 1 YR Live 70' *

1986 Exile on main St 60'

Exile on main Street Unmixed Version 1986(DIFFERENT THAN THE CASSETTE VERSION) 60Â’

1-6-86 JedÂ’s?,NEW Orleans,Lousiana 30'*

8-6-86 the Complex,Washington DC 25Â’

10-16-86 the rat,Boston 37' *

9-19-86 hoosier ballrom,Indianapolis IN 45'*

CBGB,NY halloween 1986 3 tracks

CBGB 1986?love you live 7"(bootleg,4 songs live)

8-5-87 the channel, Boston 30'

10-13-87 Brewery, Raleigh, NC 40' *

31-1-87 maxwell's,Hoboken,NJ 40' MASTER=CDR1

7-26-87,asylum,NYC 25'

31-7-87 anthrax,Norwalk,CT 40' CDR1=CDR2

1987?right now cassete extra 2 live tracks 7'

11-18-88 Maxwell's,Hoboken, NJ 30' 1ST= CDR1 *

12-1-88 kennedy's club,Vienna,Austria 40' 1ST GEN=CDR1 *

22-1-88 Limelight,Kortrijk,Belgium 50Â’ CASS

1-8-88 CBGB's, NYC 30' MASTER=CDR2 *

Osaka,Japan ?-?-88 30Â’

?-?-88 Bonn,Germany 30' *

27-1-88 bad club,Hannover,Germany 30' MASTER=CDR1 *

11-17-88 Night Shift Cafe, Naugatuck, CT 35' *

17-11-88 Nightshift CAfe,Naugatuck,Conn. 1st GEN=CDR full show+interview

11-24-88 tropic,club,Bristol,UK 35'*

1-17-88 Effaanar,Eindhoven, Holland 45'*

12-2-88 the Boardwalk,Manchester,UK(this friday night only bootleg LP) 45'

23-2-88 Mean Fiddler,London,UK(cum into my mouth bootleg LP) 30'

30-11-88 drohnland,Nurnberg,Germany 30' AUD3=CDR1

23-11-88 fabrik,hamburg,Germany 70' MASTER=CDR1 *

26-11-88 rose club,Koln,Germany 60' MASTER=CDR1 *

30-1-88 the forum,Enger,Germany 30' *

17-7-89 the probe hollywood,CA 40' MASTER=CDR1 *

3-8-89 ground zero,Boston 45'

24-7-89 old avalon theatre,Minneapolis 40' AUD4=CDR1

?-july-89 apocalypse club,Toronto,Canada 60' 1ST GEN=CDR2

5-8-89 CBGB,NY “live in the red”(last show) 40’ ANY AUDIENCE RECORDINGS??

7-25-90 peel sessions 15' *(probably live tracks from a show of 1989)

VIDEO
(V)Maximum Penetration (o) 40'(X)(24) DVD

(V)1-3-87 CBGB,NY 30'(86)(24) DVD

(V)1989 british UK TV (PIG SWEAT)live in London 88+int 5'(86)

(V)Bad Club,Hannover,Germany 27-2-88(Jon Spencer stops taping,date probably as 27-1-88??) 10'

(V)9-7-89 Axis club,Forth Worth,TX 40'(78)(86) DVD

(V)dick johnson clip 5'(86) DVD

(V)22-7-89 Central Tavern,Seattle,WA(Camera Effects) DVD 40Â’

yay

classic Jon, Julie, Neil & Bob lineup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYhTplwlLhQ

From the Teenage Riot video! At 00:12 you can see it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPytYrYqDbA