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Features Disc of the day
Pussy Galore
Right Now!
(Caroline, 1987)
19 songs in 33 minutes from degenerate noise cruds.
Pussy Galore were always up for a jape - they did a somewhat unlistenable cover of all of Exile On Main Street in 1986, publicly wound up Dischord records boss Ian MacKaye around the same time and in 1990 called their final album Historia De La Música Rock after a series of Spanish compilation LPs that usually featured Eric Clapton or Genesis on the cover. That sense of warped hilarity is everywhere on Right Now!, a cheap and nasty riot of yucks if ever there was one. 85-second opener Pig Sweat sets the low tone, as make-them-sound-worse guitars, one-armed drums and Jon Spencer's phlegmy blues-yodel try to outrace each other and shift out of sync and tune before abruptly ceasing. Then we're off onto the next one, and the next one, with fragments like the JAMC-odoured Fuck You, Man maintaining the needless nihilism. Along the way The Cramps, Stooges, Birthday Party and side two of The Fall's Totale's Turns hove into blurred view, while in charming blueser Pussy Stomp there's a glimpse of Spencer's soon-to-sprout Blues Explosion. Throughout negative currents, sensations of collapse and carnivorous entropy condense into a strange kind of upfulness and positivity, suggesting a homeopathic treating of ills with even worse ills (as Spencer himself declares early on, "I wanna feel good!"). And even if you ever get bored of one song, another one's along in about 30 seconds.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 29/05/2009
Further Listening
Pussy Galore – Corpse Love: The First Year (Caroline, 1992)
Royal Trux – Sweet Sixteen (Virgin, 1997)
The Fall – Totale’s Turns (It’s Now Or Never) (Rough Trade, 1980)
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