Stick Men With Ray Guns - Some People Deserve To Suffer

Time for some "down home devil worship" today. Straight outta Texas.'Who are they?' you might ask. Well, I'll let their website tell you that:

SMWRG was performance art. We used extreme methods to point out the irrationality of life, hatred, violence and racism. Although obviously based around front man Bobby Soxx, SMWRG soon developed an unusual stage persona, one with no pretense of rationality. We simply let the band seek its own level, and that level was strange indeed.

What you hear with SMWRG is exactly what we wanted to do together. We could not have cared less if it was popular or if it ever made any money. I wish that more bands felt that way, maybe their music would be more interesting.

They were indeed noisy, confrontational, and more than a little blasphemous. Just the way I like it! Sadly, outside of a few compilation appearances they never had a proper release during their run. This 2002 release is a collection of goodies from the early days. Suck on that, Jesus!

Come On Satan Baby

Rudimentary Peni - Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric

Alot of the early 80's 'anarcho' bands certainly developed their own unique sounds. Rudimentary Peni was certainly no different. And by that I mean they were VERY different. That said, this is their 'most different' recording. Or at least the most different I've heard. Legend has it that RP lead singer Nick Blinko wrote this while being detained in a psychiatric hospital. One listen makes that very believable. Most of the songs are by and large the title repeated over and over again. All the while the words "Papas Adrianus" is repeated in the background throughout the entire release. Very interesting indeed.

I'm A Dream, I'm A Nightmare

9353 - To Whom It May Consume

9353 is a group of weirdos from D.C. One of those bands that's very hard to classify. This is their entertaining (and strange) 1984 debut.

You Will Work For The Rest Of Your Life

Areola 51 - Self-Titled

For obvious reasons, today's post is dedicated to our good friend Col. Edward Karuthers. Not necessarily for the music, but for one other (rather large) reason.

Anyway, one of the many good things about the Butthole Surfers is the fact that the core members did plenty of interesting side projects. On this one Butthole bassist Jeff Pinkus gets together with Scratch Acid guitarist Brett Bradford and one time Ministry member Max Brody for a very interesting ride.

Can't Shit Still

Butthole Surfers - Good King Wencenslaus 7"

Now you know damn good and well that I couldn't do an April Foolish Month without the Kings of Weird. Only a single today, but it's a great one. A classic Christmas song is pretty much bastardized by the buttholes here, with Gibby's "drunken rambling" drowning out a rather normal rendition of the song. Pure enjoyment! And the second side treats us to an excellent version of The Lord Is A Monkey.

"hic"

GG Allin - War In My Head - I'm Your Enemy

Ok, we start by rather foolishly posting GG Allin for the THIRD time in a week. Yes that's excessive, but this one needs to be here, because it's even weird for GG. Released in 1993, it's about 45 glorious minutes of GG's spoken word over top of grinding and sometimes jarring music from the band Shrinkwrap. Interesting to say the least. Ok, I promise no more GG for a while.

I'm The Leading Man

April

As the calendar turns we find ourselves smack dab in the middle of another April Fools' Day. So I figured, why not make it a whole month? So this month I'll be posting releases that, well, are a little different from the norm in one way or another. So watch your back, because this month we're April Foolish!