The band’s second U.S. release. Merely a stepping stone for the brilliance that would follow. “Whole Lotta Rosie” is just about as orgasmic as rock music gets.
Though I didn’t know which album the songs came from, “Live Wire,” “T.N.T.,” and “It’s a Long Way to the Top” made a huge impression on my junior high psyche.
Art punk metal drawing on Touch & Go/AmRep ’80s blithering, grunting rocking units like Butthole Surfers (pre-suck), Killdozer, Helmet, Unsane, and Janitor Joe.
Snippets of blazing metal, washes of delayed patterns, relaxed lines matched with stuttering drums, and vice versa. An extremely well-thought-out album.