Release Information
2xCD 1992 Big Cat #ABB 31/2 CD Made in the UK
2xCS 1992 Big Cat #ABB 31/2 C Made in the UK
Track Listing
Live album released as a double CD and live DVD, recorded at CBGBs.
Disc one
01. Free James Brown
02. Fin
03. Hot Horse
04. English Faggot
05. Faith Healer (Alex Harvey / Hugh McKenna)
06. Honey I’m Home (Thirlwell / Roli Mosimann)
07. Butterfly Potion
08. I’ll Meet You in Poland Baby
Disc two
01. Anything (Viva!)
02. Death Rape 2000
03. Puppet Dude
(Thirlwell / Don Fleming / Jay Spiegel / Jim Dunbar)
04. Stumbo (Thirlwell / Mosimann)
05. Someone Drowned in My Pool
06. Behemoth (TAD)
07. Your Salvation
Performers
Clint Ruin – vocals
Algis Kizys – Bass
David Ouimet – Samplers, Trombone
Norman Westberg – Guitar
Hahn Rowe – Violin, Guitar
Vinnie Signorelli – drums
Personnel
J. G. Thirlwell – Production, execution
Mark Ohe – Execution
Martin Bisi – Mastering
Release Notes
* Death Rape 2000, Stumbo, and Someone Drowned in My Pool originally by Thirlwell’s Wiseblood project.
* Faith Healer is a cover of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
* Behemoth is a cover of TAD.
* Puppet Dude is a reworked cover of Elton John’s Rocket Man.
Free James Brown also appears on the Foetus Inc. Butterfly Potion release, the Various Artists A Wax Trax! Sampler #2 cassette, and the Feedus Foetus bootleg LP.
Fin also appears on the Foetus Interruptus Thaw release and the Foetus Corruptus Rife release.
Hot Horse also appears on the Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel Hole release, the Feedus Foetus bootleg LP, and the Foetus Boil release.
English Faggot also appears on the Foetus Interruptus Thaw release, the Foetus Corruptus Rife release, and the Feedus Foetus bootleg LP.
Faith Healer also appears on the Feedus Foetus bootleg LP, and as Hate Feeler on the Foetus Corruptus Rife release.
Honey I’m Home also appears on the Foetus Corruptus Rife release and the Feedus Foetus bootleg LP.
Butterfly Potion also appears on the Foetus Inc. Butterfly Potion release, in video form on both the Various Artists Twelve O’Clock High, Volume II and Wax Trax! First 13 Years videos, the Various Artists Industrial Revolution release, the Various Artists Black Box release, and as background music in Casandra Stark’s We Are Not to Blame video.
I’ll Meet You In Poland Baby also appears on the Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel Hole release, the Feedus Foetus bootleg LP, in video forms on the Various Artists Industrial Revolution and Gothic Industrial Madness video releases (as taken from Male), as background music on the Revelations: Visionary Sampler video, and the Foetus Boil release.
Anything (Viva!) also appears on the Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel Nail and the Foetus Corruptus Rife releases, as well as the Various Artists Industrial Strength Machine Music release.
Death Rape 2000″ also appears on the Wiseblood Motorslug release, the Wiseblood Dirtdish release, and as background music in Richard Kern’s You Killed Me First video short.
Stumbo also appears on the Wiseblood Someone Drowned In My Pool / Stumbo release in 12″ version, and the Wiseblood Dirtdish release in both 12″ version and album version.
Reviews
The renaissance man of the underground, Jim Thirwell’s body of work is not only large but also diverse, given his roles as musician, producer, label owner and artist. Using different pseudonyms to delineate each direction, Thirwell not only changes hats from project to project but also within projects. This live benediction abridges his achievements, gathering many of his long-time collaborators to perform selections pulled from 10 years of work. Monstrous production transforms the soundboard at CBGB into a clean, colorful explosion of high frequencies and low magnitudes. Thirwell’s vocals growl heinous exclamations against a voluptuous background, created by the sticky keyboards of David Ouimet (ex-Cop Shoot Cop), the unconventional violin of Hahn Rowe (Hugo Largo) and a group of ex-Swans: Algis Kizys (also Of Cabbages And Kings) on boundless bass, Norman Westberg (also Sugartime) on frivolous guitar and Vinnie Signorelli on drums. Traveling over the top, each element explodes into a gluttonous frenzy – an excessive musical extravaganza that makes you want to scream along with the overpowering obliteration.
CMJ New Music Report, Issue# 289 (19 Jun 1992), by Christina Zafiris.
