Kerosene - Big Black | Composers React (feat. Nathan Moody) 

correct

Exactly the same here. Godflesh prob ended up as my lasting favorite.

Alice Donut, OMG, thanks for reminding me. XO

The harmonic percolator circuit was first produced in the early seventies, over a decade before this song, in addition the Intervoice Preamp pre-dates this song and can be used to create the tone.

True, but I still don't hear the percolatoro in this, and by his own admittance, he uses it very rarely@@beforever

@@mistercheetah9717 I think he uses his Intersound Intervoice Preamp rack module which when saturated will result in mega clang

Agreed… and the fact that he used PA speakers as well.

2 best big black albums: atomizer, and songs about fucking. if you like those, then check out steve's current band shellac. their album at action park is incredible.

yea,why haven't you?...huh?

because you find about music on youtube

It is one of their best.

@@pnadell9231 Absolute best, priceless

I was going to comment this, as I just learned this today after looking it up.

a friend of mine noticed it sounds really similar to dead joe by the birthday party. albini is a birthday party fan, plus similar name. maybe they took influence from it?

This song is the epitome of the rural U.S. prior to the Internet.

I don't personally know much about "Bazooka Joe" , but the inside-of-the sleeve poster for the Atomizer record has explanations for the songs and the one for Bazooka Joe says "Joe comes back from the great war very different. He has done nothing but kill and watch death for many long months. He has trouble adjusting until a friend suggests a new line of work, compatible with Joe's new skills. Part of the drum track is an M1 Carbine being fired in a field exercise. By a guy named Joe."

@@Awesomenoisycat thanks for the info. Such a great song. Even if you don’t know the backstory!!

I think you’re right. I listened to “fists of love,” and “bazooka Joe,” but they were faster than I remembered. I think you hit the nail on the head with “Bad Houses.”

To your point, ‘Hammer Party’ is actually a collection of two 12” EPs that were originally released in 1982 and 1983.

"Stinking Drunk" is really fast. The two slow grinders on Atomizer are "Bad Houses" and "Fists of Love."

@@Soandso801 Three EPs if you get it on CD.

@@eyevocalwhen Hammer Party came out, Racer-X was still in print as its own release. It wasn’t for a couple of more years that indie (real indie, that is) labels started producing CD’s. Those labels, aware of the higher price compared to vinyl and cassette (at that time), were good enough to offset that when possible by combining different releases onto one disc. That especially happened a lot when they were issuing older material on CD for the first time, and it worked with punk because most punk LPs were 35 minutes or less in duration. Or in this case, 3 EPs which ran about 15-20 minutes each. It’s also why Atomizer, Headache, and the Heartbeat single were combined as the infamous “The Rich Man’s Eight Track Tape” disc which proved to be a prescient commentary on the CD format.

Exactly, that's why the bass is very important in Big Black and i think in noise rock in general an instrument that plays a melodic line Is important for that reason.

Sounds like noise rock in general

@@davek8706 You're mistaken

Cool.

And, if you would like to have Drumulator sounds, I believe the Rossum Electro Assimil80r eurorack module has it in its sample library.

I think they used Roland for the studio. The emu for tours but I could be wrong

roland tr-606

The "original" Roland was indeed a TR606. That was used live and on recordings until 1985 or so - I think Racer-X was the last record to utilize it. Past that point, they 100% used the EMU Drumulator on stage, and I'm almost positive it was used for Headache / Atomizer / Heartbeat / S.A.F. as well. I know it often gave the band trouble onstage, but Albini loved the samples, which were way thicker and meatier than those heard on, say, the Lungs EP. If anyone with more refined ears than I wants to compare and draw a definitive conclusion, the (semi-)official bootleg Sound Of Impact! uses the Drumulator for sure on the B-side, which was taped at gigs in Minneapolis and the Netherlands in late '85 and late '86, respectively. And, come to think of it, the live version of "Cables" that concludes the Atomizer LP is from that same MN show at the 7th St. Entry.

No, it does not go on a bit too long. It's a singular work of genius in it's time, don't - you - dare -.......