Pussy Galore: Right Now!
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Masterpiece. Extreme and rotten, yet irresistible.
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    ENORMOUS record. Shit, Heroin and Rn'R.
  • hjhhjij
    16 dec 12
    Yes, indeed it's only rock'n roll even if it's under a blanket of annoyingly (cool) noise and pure madness. I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's a personal opinion, but for me, it's one of the coolest things to come out of the '80s.
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    This album is in the pantheon for me. You see, you also have a punk spirit, deep down, don't you? ;)
  • hjhhjij
    16 dec 12
    I have become that (partly) :D A year ago, I would have given this record a one, but fortunately, things change ;)
    What about the others, how are they, the ones I only know scattered pieces of? By the way, I had heard that Hagerty left the band after this.
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    I highly recommend the album Sugarshit Sharp. Slightly more "palatable" but just as great. The second album, Dial M, is cool too, but this and Sugarshit are the best, for me. Hagerty is there until Dial M, if I'm not mistaken.
  • hjhhjij
    16 dec 12
    Up to and including Dial M? Anyway, I'll try to get the EP (it's the one with the Neubauten cover, right? I'm really curious to listen to it) then. Not right away because I think I'll resume listening to the Swans (most likely re-listening to that bomb of Children of God), but as soon as possible. Thank you :)
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    Yes, yes, it's on Dial M Hagerty.
  • hjhhjij
    16 dec 12
    Well then :) A-ri-grazie.
  • SilasLang
    16 dec 12
    I think Sugarshit in CD reissue also contains quite a few bonuses, if I'm not mistaken, I don't know why I have it on 12". Anyway! Enjoy listening ;)
Pussy Galore: Sugarshit Sharp
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
A magnificent EP, a worthy successor to the undeniably unreachable masterpiece Right Now.
Pussy Galore: Dial
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Pussy Galore: Live: In the Red
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
The true epitaph of Pussy Galore. An incendiary live recording from August 1989, a band that was already unraveling, Hagerty lost in drugs and Royal Trux, Cafritz already out of the group, Bert off doing his own thing, the Spencer-Martinez duo caught between Boss Hog and the last attempts to keep this band of crazies afloat. What emerges is a fabulous live performance, as dirty and raw as few, with the greatest jolts coming from the 4 tracks of Right Now! The garage-blues-noise that sets everything ablaze.
Recipe for Pussy Galore: take a hefty chunk of the rawest Garage Rock possible, preferably a bit rancid, cousin of the Cramps and nephew of the wildest garage bands of the '60s, mix it with its natural twin of Rolling Stones-style R'n'R, soak it with a good liter of Blues, but the Blues left to rot, darkened, that murky and shamanic cult brother of the Birthday Party's blues drift, and stuff it with a generous dose of everything that was the fury of Punk (and maybe even Hardcore-Punk) about ten years before. Alright, now blend it all; is the blender making noise? Great, because there's a need for plenty of "Noise" to cover the final result, along with a vocalist, Jon Spencer, who is a wild, shamanic voice, a beastly singer worthy of the Morrison-Iggy lineage, a younger brother of the Cave and Inner Light; of course, this is when the three guitars, divided between garage riffs and delirious noise clatter (Hagerty, Cafritz, and Spencer himself) don't almost completely drown out the furious performances. On drums, still John Hammill and not Bob Bert.
So, what does Pussy Galore sound like? The fiercest Garage, violent in sonic assault and dirty, that you can imagine. Or Garage/Noise/Blues/Punk/R'n'R to create the collage of terms.