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Rating: "Atomizer" is perhaps my favorite album of the '80s. Steve Albini is a genius, one of the best composers of the post-war period, who in this album manages to perfectly blend Hardcore, Noise, and Industrial without ever being repetitive. The distorted guitars and the intentionally poor production make the album very raw.
Albini unleashes all his pent-up anger with Kerosene (perhaps the best track on the whole CD), then seems to calm down with Bad Houses, which is mainly based on the same drum pattern and a sharp riff from a highly distorted and noisy guitar. The lyrics are very sparse, very angry; Albini has no qualms and writes extremely violent lyrics (see Kerosene).
Rating: 9
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 Jordan, Minnesota (03:22)
This is Jordan, we do what we like
This is Jordan, we do what we like
Stay with me, my five year old
Stay with me, play hide and seek
Stay with me, my five year old
This is Jordan, we do what we like
And this will stay with you until you die
And this will stay with you until you die
And I will stay with you until you die
And this is Jordan, we do what we like
And this will stay with you until you die
And this will stay with you until you die
This will stay with you until you die
And I will stay with you until you die
Suck daddy, suck daddy, suck daddy
02 Passing Complexion (03:06)
She was his
She would take his children
Black and white
Right to her own breast
There were times
When he could mix
With ordinary white company
Though?? the subject never came up
No one would notice
He had what they call passing complexion
He had what they call passing complexion
He had what they call passing complexion
He had what they call passing complexion
He'd been white, he'd been black
They asked him, black like that?
Yeah!
04 Kerosene (06:07)
I was born in this town
live here my whole life
probably come to die in this town
live here my whole life
never anything to do in this town
live here my whole life
never anything to do in this town
probably learn to die in this town
live here my whole life
nothing to do
sit around at home
sit around at home
nothing to do
stare at the walls
stare at each other
wait til we die
stare at each other
wait til we die
probably come to die in this town
live here my whole life
theres Kerosene around
something to do
theres Kerosene around X2
she's something to do
theres Kerosene around
find something to do
theres Kerosene around
shes somethind to do
theres Kerosene
set me on fire...Kerosene X4
KEROSENE
SET ME ON FIRE
(false end)
Kerosene around
shes something
Kerosene around
now what do we do
theres Kerosene
now what do we do
jump Kerosene
now what do we do
Kerosene around
jump Kerosene
never anything to do in this town
never anythng but jump Kerosene
set me on fire Kerosene x4
SETMEONFIRE
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By pretazzo
Albini literally tears apart the guitar riff and disjointedly reassembles it, so that the engine of the track is a sort of zombie riff, on the verge of derailing into the piercing screech of the chorus.
Albini is the mad surgeon of rock music.
