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THE PIGFUCK PLAYLIST: VOLUME 1

THE PIGFUCK PLAYLIST: VOLUME 1

In 1983, the New York punk band Sonic Youth released the EP "Confusion Is Sex".
Village Voice Reviewer Robert Christgau gave the band a negative review for the EP and in doing so described their sound as "Pigfuck Noise".

Sonic Youth ended up retaliating by naming a song after him on their next EP but the phrase "Pigfuck Noise" somehow stuck. It became a way to describe then emerging punk rock bands who were that little bit meaner, blunt and noisier sounding and were more likely to write about ugly or disturbing subject matter and feature a confrontational and pointedly offensive approach to the music, harkening back to the less palatable, extreme sound of punk rock bands a few years previously, before the 80s new wave or speed metal takeover or the eventual post-Offspring Smash, dayglo skate fashion punk era of the 1990s and beyond.

Originally only describing the similar approaches of Sonic Youth like Big Black, Butthole Surfers and
Killdozer. Over time it's been used to describe what was by the 1990s known as "Noise Rock".
In reading up on a few articles on "Pigfuck Noise" after being reminded of the term by an article online.
I started googling it and found a few websites and online magazines and music rating sites which had
attempted to list the best examples of what was and could still be "Pigfuck Noise"

So, being a massive fan of Noise Rock myself and owning dozen of these bands and compilations on CD and vinyl myself. I decided to seek out the bands listed in these lists that I know and love and the ones I
hadn't heard and compile them all into a "Pigfuck Playlist" podcast along with suggestions from friends and from not just the US but Australia.

So with contributions spanning from The Dicks and Flipper in the late 70s all the way up to Metz and Ken Mode in the 2010s. Some of these, that I found on these website lists, I myself have never heard so if they don't sound pigfucky - them's the breaks.

Some of the suggestions include no wave and early New York noise bands. A lot of these songs are still known today as the best punk rock songs ever written. Which shows that "pigfuck noise bands" were the most logical direction for punk rock to go in - had it not been seduced by the money and lure of commercial populism.

Here is the first "Pigfuck Playlist" podcast on my Hearthis. More to come soon.

VOLUME 1:

sonic youth - inhuman
big black - ready men
butthole surfers - graveyard
killdozer - going to the beach
hose - down by the river
the birthday party - big jesus trash can
grong grong - club grotesque
lubricated goat - guttersnipe
thug - thug
cosmic psychos - going down
flipper - sacrifice
the dicks - hate the police
steel pole path tub - soul cannon
scratch acid - greatest gift
the mentally ill - tumor boy
big boys - the big picture
castration party - friend of last resort
dead - the cat who breathed colours
bloodloss - can't float in my boat
x - I don't wanna go out
raygun mortlock - wifebeater
halo of flies - headburn
big stick - I look like shit
skin yard - throb
chiaroscuro - bernice's hair
happy flowers - all I got were clothes for christmas
the thrown ups - my cock is the coin
cows - hitting the wall
tar - static
boss hog - spanish fly
guzzard - I'm a pain, you're a pain
unsane - streetsweeper
hammerhead - anvil
outstation - 3 shits
pb - fuggly stick
whores - cougars not kittens
gaunt - just leave