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September 2014: Touch & Go / Quarterstick 34
Anthology info
Artist: Scratch Acid
Release: The Greatest Gift
Discogs: 370003
Released: 1991
Label: Touch And Go
Catalog#: T&GLP#76CD
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Style: Rock, Punk
Tracklisting:
Scratch Acid
01. Cannibal (2:24)
02. Greatest Gift (2:11)
03. Monsters (1:19)
04. Owner’s Lament (4:39)
05. She Said (2:27)
06. Mess (2:22)
07. El Espectro (3:39)
08. Lay Screaming (2:47)
Just Keep Eating
09. Crazy Dan (4:13)
10. Eyeball (2:06)
11. Big Bone Lick (3:48)
12. Unlike A Baptist (2:31)
13. Damned For All Time (2:05)
14. Ain’t That Love (2:23)
15. Untitled (0:29)
16. Holes (2:00)
17. Albino Slug (3:26)
18. Spit A Kiss (2:02)
19. Amicus (3:15)
20. Cheese Plug (2:45)
21. Untitled (2:20)
Berserker
22. Mary Had A Little Drug Problem (2:16)
23. For Crying Out Loud (3:06)
24. Moron’s Moron (3:13)
25. Skin Drips (2:42)
26. This Is Bliss (2:16)
27. Flying Houses (3:08)
Bonus Track
28. The Scale Song (3:03)
Credits: Show
Notes: Show
RYM review by Andrew_MacGregor:
What is it with punk, anyway, that it seems that every hard rock band that isn’t metal seems to be labelled punk? Surely, there must be a point when you just have to say “this isn’t punk anymore”.
Case in point: Scratch Acid. Really, if we take, say, The Sex Pistols, or even Black Flag as being quintessential punks, then the only thing punkish about Scratch Acid is David Yow shouts a bit, and they’re really loud. These could be good enough reasons to call them metal. But how many metal or punk bands do you know who:
– Use time sigs which I couldn’t even begin to work out.
– Have a vocalist who, not shouts, but spits, croons, gargles, screeches, mumbles, coughs and expectorates out lyrics which are more beatnik than punk.
– Have a guitarist who seems to use his instrument almost entirely for texture or acid-rock style solos.
– Are quite willing to throw strings, brass, latin-sounding guitarwork and industrial noise into the mix when they feel like it.
– Feature a rythm section more reminiscent of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers than Bad Brains.
Not to mention probably loads of other things. I mean a few songs are certainly punkish, like Monsters (even if it so fast and deranged it makes Napalm Death look like the Monkees), but even these songs have some weird element thrown in that throws you off. Generally, though, the main focus will be David Yow, who gives out one of the most utterly deranged and psychotic performances in music history – if you thought he was wild in the Jesus Lizard, you ain’t seen nothing. Plus, the drumming is phenomenal – why Rey Washam isn’t a hero of underground rock, I don’t know.
The band became gradually more crazy and weird with each release (all of which are collected on this album) until they self-destructed, much like their predecessors, the Birthday Party. But they went on to be a massive influence on the noise rock, grunge and indie scenes, not least two kids named Kurt Cobain and Steve Albini.
Get this – but be prepared. It is perhaps the most furious and ferocious album of the entire American underground scene – Damaged and Reign in Blood look tame by comparison.