Two Nuns and a Pack Mule is the only studio album by the Chicago noise rock band Rapeman, released by Touch & Go Records on August 23, 1988. The CD re-release contained the Budd extended play in its entirety.
The indie music press largely applauded the album as the much awaited studio follow-up to Albini’s work with Big Black. Trouser Press compared it favorably to their previous release, writing that the album "fits Albini's distinctive meltdown guitar and shriek vocals into rough song forms [...] Rapeman spits out sparks with the conviction of Albini's acerbic intelligence."
In retrospective reviews, Jason Ankeny of AllMusic wrote that the album "varies in its attack in ways Albini's old trio Big Black never did; the demented rhythms constantly threaten to veer out of control, and Albini's guitar screeches like something rabid and bloodthirsty", sarcastically writing that lyrically, "the group displays the same warmth and compassion so evident in their choice of a name [...] songs tackle sex ("Trouser Minnow"), ethnicity ("Hated Chinee"), and classic rock ("Radar Love Lizard")." FACT Magazine ranked it the 28th best album of the 1980s, calling the "oft-overlooked" album "one of Albini’s greatest moments on the other side of the production desk." Dominick Fernow of Prurient-fame wrote that the album "was one of the first rock records I ever heard that made me question owning it [...] quite possibly the last dangerous rock album made?"
Steve Albini - guitar, vocals
David Wm. Sims - bass guitar, co-vocals on "Just Got Paid"
Rey Washam - drums
Fluss, Steve Albini - production
Kerry Crafton - engineering
AllMusic: 4.5/5
Alternative Rock: 7/10
The Great Rock Discography: 7/10
OndaRock: 8/10
Rolling Stone: 4/5
Side YO
00:00 Steak and Black Onions
02:47 Monobrow
06:32 Up Beat
08:48 Coition Ignition Mission
11:11 Kim Gordon's Panties
Side MO
15:29 Hated Chinee
17:30 Marmoset
19:21 Radar Love Lizard
21:33 Just Got Paid (originally by ZZ Top)
25:09 Trouser Minnow
Bonus tracks
29:16 Budd
36:46 Superpussy
38:58 Log Bass
41:21 Dutch Courage
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