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1. I Parade Myself. Icy, creepy, comes correct with the noise. 90s production sheen actually works. Could use a album's worth of this. (Rest of Shrinkwrapped doesn’t measure up though Tattoo gets close.)

2. Natural’s Not In It. Scorching two-note riff, completely fucked structure. Most vocally scathing moment evar: "–- but all with strings attached." WOOO!!

3. Anthrax. Ultimate Noisefuck of the Beyondness. Well, right up there, anyway.

4. Damaged Goods. Bassline.

5. We Live As We Dream, Alone. Total bleakness, unstoppable forward motion.

6. Capital (It Fails Us Now). Like having your skull crushed in a power vise, in a good way. OH NO I LEFT IT IN MY OTHER SUIT!

7. Guns Before Butter (Peel Sessions). Gets down in a badly funky way.

8. Paralysed. Will kill you if you look at it wrong, or maybe just because.

9. The World At Fault. Excellent soulful wailing, mumbly intro. Shame it wasn't quite finished.

10. Still to come, I pray to God, Allah, and Santa Claus.

They've taken to emphasizing that “two-thirds of our audience are between 15 and 25! we ain't no nostalgia act!” Okay but DAEREST GANG OF FOUR WHY YOU HATE OLD FANS? WE MAY BE SNARKY ON INTERNETS BUT WE LOVE YOU LONG TIME AND PAY CASH. P.S. WRITE ONE SONG BITCHES.

― xero (xero), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Even though lists like these simply serve to promote the evils of capitalism and continue the mass exploitation of the working class, I'll give it a shot.

In no particular order...

I Love a Man in Uniform
Cheeseburger
Anthrax
At Home He's A Tourist
Natural's Not In It
Glass
Damaged Goods
Return the Gift
I Foudn That Essence Rare
Not Great Men

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Carrying on the diabolical commodification / recuperation scheme (tm), wish to note that you have basically chosen Entertainment, minus a couple of songs, plus thee Disco Hit (of sorts) and the F.Y.U.S.A. one (I assume you mean the version on Another Day/Another Dollar). No problem with that; just sayin'.

― xero (xero), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

1. "To Hell With Poverty": White hot, skin-flaying guitar fury.
2. "What We All Want" (live version from the Another Day, Another Dollar e.p.) - Fractured guitar melee between Gill and his guitar, and it sounds like the guitar's coming apart in his hands. Brilliance.
3. "Damaged Goods" - Perfection.
4. "Capital (It Fails Us Now)" - Somehow hugely funky and leaden at the same time. Bass guitars used as blugeoning tools. Cop Shoot Cop took notes.
5. "Anthrax" - What can one say? Stunning to this day, not least for the rhtyhm section's stiff-backed battery beneath Gill's hailstorm of guitar abuse.
6. "I Found That Essence Rare" - Breathless and breakneck.
7. "Cheeseburger" (live version from Another Day, Another Dollar)
8. "He's Send in the Army" - Jon gets whacking!
9. "Call Me Up" - if only for the "huh, huh, huh"'s in the chorus
10. "WomanTown" - Dark horse. Slow and atmospheric with a great funky chug.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

11. "Cadillac" - Not their finest hour, but the finest track on Mall.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

11. Unburden Unbound. Worth noting because it made me much too uncomfortable, as in actual involuntary wincing and skin-crawly sensations, to listen to it more than a couple of times. Sounded good though, as I recall.

― xero (xero), Friday, 14 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

10. "WomanTown" - Dark horse. Slow and atmospheric with a great funky chug.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, October 14, 2005 8:34 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ew. You crazy, Alex in NYC. Andy Gill "rapping"? DO NOT WANT.

― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Sunday, 4 April 2010 07:04 (sixteen years ago)

Suit yourself.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 5 April 2010 18:58 (sixteen years ago)

And you do the same, sir. 'Tis a free country. Also, you're crazy.

;)

― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

For what it's worth, I wouldn't really call what Andy does in this song as "rapping," just some rather clunkily-cadenced sing/speakin' (as evidenced in this TV taping trainwreck):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMAV2-kB0Y

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:57 (sixteen years ago)

Points should also be subtracted for Jon's hair in this clip.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

I can't watch this now. I can't stand to see Jon's hair like that.

― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

I saw it at the time (1983, Holiday Star Ballroom, some Chicago suburb across the state line in Indiana). It wasn't OK then and it's not OK now.

― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

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