Length 31:45 Songs About Fucking
(1987) Pigpile
(1992) Release date 10 September 1987 | Producer Big Black Artist Big Black Label Touch and Go Records | |
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Released September 10, 1987 (September 10, 1987) Genres Punk rock, Noise rock, Post-punk, Post-hardcore, Industrial rock Similar Big Black albums, Noise rock albums | ||
Big black songs about fucking 1987 full album
Songs About Fucking is the second and final album by the noise rock band Big Black. It placed 54th on Pitchfork Media's 'Top 100 Albums of the 1980s'. Included are covers of Kraftwerk's "The Model" (in a remixed version from the one on their recent B-side), and on the CD version, Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore".
Contents
Production
Steve Albini has said that Songs About Fucking is the Big Black album that he is most satisfied with. In a 1992 interview with Maximumrocknroll magazine, Albini said:
The band had already decided to split up before the album was recorded, prompted by guitarist Santiago Durango's decision to enroll in law school, and the band's desire to quit while at their peak.
Critical reception
Songs About Fucking has been called "certainly the most honest album title of the rock'n'roll era". Lyrical themes on the album include South American killing techniques ("Colombian necktie"), bread that gets you high ("Ergot"), and how "slowly, without trying, everyone becomes what he despises most". While the album's title (commonly blanked out when displayed in shops on its release) and the sleeve were controversial, according to one reviewer, "as brutal as that cover is, the music is even more so", and it was considered "as dark and frightening as the band name suggests" by another, Treble's Hubert Vigilla, who goes on to say "Songs About Fucking is loud, it's abrasive, it's unattractive in the extreme ... So really, it's everything that made Big Black so great in the first place". Dave Henderson of Underground magazine gave the album a two and a half out of three rating, calling it "a napalm attack that sticks to your skin like burning party-jell, spiced with hundreds and thousands, a prickly sensation that's as all-consuming as it is repellent".
Track listing
All songs written by Big Black, except where noted.
Side "Happy Otter"
- "The Power of Independent Trucking" – 1:27
- "The Model" – 2:34 (Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter, Emil Schult)
- "Bad Penny" – 2:33
- "L Dopa" – 1:40
- "Precious Thing" – 2:20
- "Colombian Necktie" – 2:14
Side "Sad Otter"
- "Kitty Empire" – 4:01
- "Ergot" – 2:27
- "Kasimir S. Pulaski Day" – 2:28
- "Fish Fry" – 2:06
- "Pavement Saw" – 2:12
- "Tiny, King of the Jews" – 2:31
- "Bombastic Intro" – 0:35
CD Bonus Track
- "He's a Whore" – 2:37* (Rick Nielsen)
Personnel
Songs
1The Power of Independent Trucking1:27
2The Model2:35
3Bad Penny2:33