The Jesus Lizard - Nirvana
Puss - Oh, The Guilt

THE REVIEW

The Jesus Lizard vs Nirvana

A clash of titans; two cornerstone bands of the star-spangled alternative rock from those powerful years.

They share a single; one track each. "Touch and Go Records" takes care of bringing this very brief split to the market in February of 1993.

It's up to the lizards from Chicago to open fire; produced, and you can hear it clearly, by Steve Albini. Among the three most explicit minutes of the neurotic cruelty orchestrated by the band of David Yow and Duane Denison. "Puss" is a track that had already appeared the previous year on their masterpiece album "Liar". An abrasive guitar sound that accompanies the lucid and paranoid vocal delirium; and the square rhythm section corroborates and magnifies the powerful full-fledged torrent. A Noise-Punk cannon shot of uncontrolled power.

Nirvana is no less with "Oh, The Guilt". You can tell the song belongs to their past; we are much closer to the raw roughness of "Bleach" compared to the recent, of that period, "Nevermind". The track was already played by Nirvana during concerts in 1990; it is recorded for the occasion in a Seattle studio; without losing an ounce of its ancient ferocity. The staccato guitar and Kurt’s schizoid voice, Dave's "full" drumming, Krist's propulsive bass: ingredients that contribute to making the finale a pure auditory delirium. In my view, one of their peaks.

There are no winners nor losers: a tie in everything. Even in duration: the same to the second.

Nothing more to write.

Ad Maiora.