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Stinkfist (EP)

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Released
  
1987

Producer
  
Clint Ruin

Artist
  
Lydia Lunch

Label
  
Widowspeak Productions

Length
  
20:39

Stinkfist (1987)
  
Thaw (1988)

Release date
  
1987

Genre
  
Industrial music

Recorded
  
Eldorado, Los Angeles (April 1, 1986) and B.C., New York (Dec 12–13, 1987)

Stinkfist (1987)
  
Drowning in Limbo (1989)

Stinkfist is a collaborative EP by Clint Ruin (a.k.a. J. G. Thirlwell) and Lydia Lunch. This outing from the ex-Immaculate Consumptive bandmates was originally released as a 12" in 1987 on Lunch's Widowspeak label.

Contents

Content

The album cover shows Lunch and Ruin—lovers at the time—in a coital embrace.

Release

Stinkfist was released in 1987 by record label Widowspeak. A 1989 CD version added "The Crumb", a single by Lunch and Sonic Youth leader Thurston Moore.

Reception

Trouser Press wrote "Stinkfist could be the first joint effort [Lydia Lunch] doesn't dominate [...] Lots of noise and energy but nothing new, especially for the already Foetusized."

Track listing

All tracks written by Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin, except "The Crumb" co-written by Thurston Moore.

Personnel and Production

"Stinkfist" and "Son of Stink":

  • Cliff Martinez – drums, metal
  • DJ Bonebrake – drums, metal
  • Neil – drums, metal
  • Spit Stix – drums, metal
  • Tom Surgal – metal
  • Roli Mosimann – timbales, engineering
  • Lydia Lunch – voices, metal
  • Clint Ruin – voices, metal
  • Randy Burns – engineering
  • Hahn Rowe – engineering

    • "Meltdown Oratorio":

  • Lydia Lunch – voices
  • Clint Ruin – instruments
  • Martin Bisi – engineering

    • "The Crumb":

  • Thurston Moore – guitars, voice
  • Lydia Lunch – voice
  • Clint Ruin – loops, treatments, production
  • Bass/drums - "grafted and transplanted from eternity." Bass and drums are reworked from Lydia Lunch's "Dead in the Head" on her Honeymoon in Red album. Though uncredited, the original performance is by Ruin.
  • Martin Bisi – engineering

    • Songs

    1StinkfistJG Thirlwell6:57
    2MeltdownJG Thirlwell9:56
    3Son of StinkJG Thirlwell3:48

    References

    Stinkfist (EP) Wikipedia
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