Revolting Cocks
Linger Ficken Good & Other Barnyard Oddities (Sire)
by Carolyn Gaines
Volume? Check. Bass? Check. Hallucinogenics? Check. Welcome to your drug-induced nightmare. Mr. Jourgensen and Crew will be your tour guides through the revved psychedelia that your mind will become when listening to the latest offering from Revolting Cocks. That’s RevCo, to all you mal-informed. Linger Ficken’ Good and Other Barnyard Oddities is nothing short of nightmarish, revved-up and/or completely screwed. This is not good, clean fun. There’s nothing good, clean, or fun about it. Well, there is a tiny bit of fun. Send that little guy in your mind that keeps track of your files back to about, ohhh, 1979-ish… does “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” ring a bell? ‘Nuff said.
As of late, Al Jourgensen has been on just about every music magazine cover, every music-type person’s tongue, and every screwed up young (well, relatively young) American’s mind. Even as RevCo and Ministry (another A.J. project) rocket to the top of the sales perspectus’ of most record stores, the music remains enjoyable, accessible, and maniacal. “Look at it this way,” offers A.J. (a.k.a. Hypo Luxa, Buck Satan), “Ministry is Monday through Friday, RevCo is weekends. Ministry is roll up your sleeves and get the shit done, while RevCo is camping.” Ministry grabs you by the shirt and demands you to react, RevCo grabs you and shoots a urine-filled plastic lapel flower in your eye.
In all seriousness, though, it’s truly amazing that RevCo is still around. They’ve gone through more members than Spinal Tap did drummers. They survived Mexico City’s worst earthquake recorded, although they did think that original member Richard 23 was swallowed in the chasm. Turns out that he was spotted some time later, alive and well, sporting a severe haircut in Front 242. Shaken by this tragedy, Al and remaining members went to Belgium in search of good chocolate. They found Chris Conelly and Paul Barker there. Now complete and sounding like they’ve eaten far too many Jimmy Dean Flapsticks, RevCo has been hailed as the Steppenwolf for the next generation of cultural terrorists.
Linger Ficken’ Good and Other Barnyard Oddities IS odd. We’re talking Odd with a capital “Duh.” It comes off as being kind of too odd… as though RevCo is trying to keep our minds on something else while they pull a sneak attack from behind. Maybe their next release will subliminally tell us to overthrow “our” government. Hmmm… not a bad idea. Maybe they’ll try to tell us to invite naked starlets and dwarfs into our hot tubs. Anyway, just listen to these ten tracks of bad craziness from RevCo, but for God’s sake, hide the pets.
