GG ALLIN
VIOLENT BEATINGS
Track Listing:
| Watch Me Kill (The Boston Girl) | ||
| MP3 | Castration Crucifixion | |
| Snakeman's Dance | ||
| Slaughterhouse Deathcamp | ||
| Feces And Blood (Bacteria Of The Soul) | ||
| Master Daddy | ||
| Dagger In My Heart | ||
| Spread Your Legs, Part Your Lips | ||
| Shit On My Prick | ||
| Cornhole Lust | ||
| MP3 | Kiss Me In The Gutter | |
| Drug Whore | ||
| I Live To Be Hated |
Reviews:
| JIMMY REJECT |
| This is actually a
compilation of the two more extreme recordings of GG’s later career, 1991’s
"Watch Me Kill" EP and 1989’s "Suicide Sessions" cassette. These
boast the kind of crude production that would send the most lo-fi Rip Off Records band
running to the company of Mutt Lange and all the air compression and pro tools recording
he could offer. Even though the latter recording comes first, this represents an evolution of a formula, with Watch Me Kill finalizing the dark potential that Suicide Sessions first explored. Crank your amp to ten, press record on the broken boom box, and let the Scumfuc God’s black soul ooze cancerously through your trembling speakers. The Watch Me Kill EP had always been a guilty pleasure of mine, although I hadn’t heard it for years prior to buying this CD. It’s the kind of record you can crank and get off on its evil mood, but you must turn down the volume before you start believing that the Devil’s in the room. The record’s kind of divided equally: two slow tunes "Snakeman’s Dance" and "Feces and Blood", two hardcore tunes "Slaughterhouse Deathcamp" and "Watch Me Kill the Boston Girl", and two punk tunes "Castration Crufixion" and "Master Daddy". The slow songs are really where the advancement from the Suicide Sessions takes hold. They’re Sabbath-esque dirges enhanced by a mind fuck, psychedelic pastiche of whispering vocal back ups that dissect the mind and leave it to bleed to death in the gutter. It’s a scary listen. The two punk numbers are really where the adrenal blast kicks in, and they kind of make you wish that ’78 era Ramones would’ve recorded in the manner GG did. (Note to the wise: don’t listen to this EP stoned in a dark room right before a long, lonely graveyard shift at a convenience store. A mistake I made one rueful night in ’93.) What follows is ‘89’s Suicide Sessions. One new track is added, several old ones are missing. They’re all basically homogenous, grungy dirges about the dark life, so I’ll just focus on the three more outstanding cuts. Despite its lo-fi, hateful vibe the song "Dagger in My Heart" (written for GG’s favorite porn model) is really a heart felt and emblematic ode to the dysfunctional depths of emotional/sexual attraction. I’d like to hear Ryan Adams take a crack at it on one of his acoustic CDEPs, but it’s not likely to happen. Sad that this song was never developed beyond this primitive state, it has potential to make the masses weep at the forlorn passion that John F. Hinckley felt for Jodie Foster. The second song I’d like to talk to about is "Drug Whore", a spoken word dirge where GG speaks to a young crack whore he’d like to ravish for a few days in exchange for dope. It starts off with the instant classic phase "I know I’m a fuck up/and that I’m twice your age". The failing aspect of that song is that you can’t hear GG’s speech too clearly over the music. Otherwise, it’s an intriguing premise I’d like to hear more clearly someday. Following that is the last song, the world renowned GG anthem that’s been painted on countless angry young males’ leather jackets, "I Live to Be Hated". Given the remix they did for this song, it comes off a shade more powerful. And just for the title alone, what kind of punk rocker couldn’t love this song? An enduring anthem for self obsessed misanthropes everywhere who live to get dirty looks at the mall. Overall, I’d say this CD is a good bet for GG completists of all stripes and for satanic young dilaudid dealers who think that Deicide were a bunch of altar boy sissies. Like Poison Idea said: "Feel the Darkness". |
| KAINUUN SANOMAT (FINLAND) |
| Already before his deadly heroin overdose, almost legendary rosen GG Allin became known as his total careless for himself and full-day mindless and chaotic behavior, like music as every-day life. Violent Beatings is collection of rare and unreleased material from years 1988-1991. Record includes remixed and mastered version of Watch Me Kill EP. There's also unreleased versions of songs from "Suicide Sessions" tape. Total lack of instict to protect himself seems like man's music as his teeth. There's no use to talk about secure backround-music when G.G. Allin with his only band-mate Sheehan crushing his extreme brutal hardcore provoking listener with all methods from lyrics to musical issues. Sound-policy is guaranteed four-track-stuff. Without a doubt, ass have been shown to pop-ideals in a recording-sessions. Every levels slamming totally over as said with professional slang. So the results are extremely extreme, distorted rock-helter skelter. Booklet includes Allin's writings affecting recording days of Suicide Sessions. The day is shaded with suicide attempts with two girlfriend, waking up in own piss-puddle and thoughts of continual presence of booze and death. It is said that G.G. Allin is incarnation of nihilism and rock n' roll's fuck you-attitude. Violent Beatings stand behind man's reputation, because more deformed and violent music is hard to find. |
Pressing history:
| FORMAT | PRESSING | DATE | QUANTITY | DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC |
| CD | 1 | July 2001 | 1000 | |
| 2 | January 2004 | 1000 | booklet mentions JP Masters |