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by AnthonyVillalobos_Archive
Damn, I really want that Public Image reissue. Hopefully they stick around for a while.Also, Black Humor's Love God Love One Another has seen a repress for the first time since 1982 when they were putting the album out themselves from some loft in San Francisco. Covering the album covers with dirt and dead worms. This time around it has the originally intended artwork pressed onto it. There are a couple of awesome and wild stories in the liner notes for the album. Apparently their was some controversy when it came out and MRR had published a little positive review about it. Some doof wrote in crying about how "racist" of a record it was and how their anti-pc artwork offended him. They are not a racist band. Anyways Here's the original artwork for the album and some words from Superior Viaduct (label putting the album out) about the record:Handmade silkscreen jackets. Second pressing now available.BLACK HUMOR was an experimental rock band from San Francisco in the early 80's. (Not to be confused with "blackhumor," alias of noise artist Frazer Hall.) They released just one, very hard to find LP on Fowl Records in 1982. Only 1,000 records were pressed, each with unique handmade covers: thick slabs of paint, collage, parrot feathers, dirt, whatever else happened to be laying around their Tenderloin flat. Many of these have since gone for high, collector prices or ended up in oblivion.Existing in a parallel universe to other bands of the era, BLACK HUMOR's music is filled with jarring images of urban decay and desperation, bass-driven melodies, and layers of dissonant guitar and percussion. And perhaps the only known recording of a parrot that was taught to say "Fuck You."This first time reissue uses the originally intended artwork for the album cover. Fully authorized and mastered from the original analog tapes. Includes new insert with liner notes by singer George Miller and engineer Tom Mallon."BLACK HUMOR is perhaps THE band / lp from that era of SF that seemed to fuse equal elements of FLIPPER / CHURCH POLICE, FACTRIX / MINIMAL MAN and FUCK UPS / SICK PLEASURE to forge a release that was all their own." Tom Lax (Siltbreeze)You can listen to a couple of songs on SV's website here.
lemur68 wrote:Why would you be where a jam band is playing in the first place?