Gub

The rest of Pigface's albums have their moments, but they never got better than the two perfect releases Gub and Fook.This music is unclassifiable, unrelenting, and utterly maddening.I've heard that even many of the musicians who worked on this album don't like it. But it's one of my favorite albums. I could listen to it all day long... i might be insane afterwards, but i could do it.As soon as the first 20 seconds of the pounding screeching Tapeworm have played, you'll know whether this album is for you or not. Tapeworm, by the way, is one of the album's highlights in my opinion.. with vocals by Ogre from Skinny Puppy. Other reasons to check out this album: Blood and Sand, Little Sisters, Suck, Weightless..persons who might enjoy this album: fans of Skinny Puppy, Einsturzende Neubauten, Chris Connelly (not the MTV guy), KMFDM, Stockhausen, John Cage, Killing Joke.If you are fans of these artists, but find that Gub isn't your cup of tea, then i recommend Fook.. Pigface's second full length studio album. It's much more 'user friendly'. If you find that Fook isn't your cup of tea either, then i suggest giving up on Pigface.

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When I first bought this CD back in '90, I was among those that would have said it was awful. For about a week. It grows on you, fast and hard. I dispute the fact that it is experimentation for experimentation's sake; I think they went out on a limb and succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. There does seem to be a lack of structure, but repeated listenings reveal a complex rythm present in every song. Atkins is a drummer; how could there not be rhythm? He even is able to find the industrial beat of a hotel room faucet! That track is one of my favorites. Granted, the songs for the most part are not as conventional and melodic as the rest of their catalog, but, I think that's a good thing. This is a monumental stand-alone recording by a stellar assembly of Industrial superstars, the sum being greater than the parts. Original and unique in a good way.

I remember seein an interview where a Pigface member called this album an experimental nightmare. Very true on a lot of levels starting with Skinny Puppy's Ogre on the first track matching his rhapsy voice over screeching metallic noises. Though this album is so raw, imaginative, and different from everything else yet so purely industrial I love it.

Listening to this album for the first time is like having any of your former notions about music scrubbed clean off. And it feels good.I highly recommend it.

Obviously music is subjective, but I would say that people who tend to like industrial rock style music and who have never heard this album before will generally find it very mediocre. Essentially this band was started on a whim by the live touring musicians for the band ministry, and they chose to record an album with the Puritanical minimalist producer Steve Albini because that was a trend. His albums tend to sound like amateur studio demo tapes. The songwriting is very half assed, for example compare the version of “suck” on this album to the one on the nine inch nails broken album. I believe the band only eventually got popular as they refined and improved their songwriting production and later albums and on live tours.

"Blood and Sand." I need not say anyhting more

Please do not buy any products by Martin Atkins/Pigface, he has no morals and goes out of his way to be a crappy person. If you don't believe me, contact any artist that has released music though his "label" Invisible Records and ask them what their experience was working with him, I guarantee it won't be positive. Invisible Records = invisible payments to artists, Martin Atkins should be deported back to the UK.