UGLY ATONAL EIGHTIES SERIES #3: Scratch Acid
Greatest Gift
Touch and Go
Scratch Acid came from the same Austin scene from which the Butthole Surfers festered out of and also shared a record label (Touch & Go) with Killdozer. Scratch Acid's sound was driven by some propulsive bass playing and a guitarist (David Wm. Sims) capable of frenzied riffing one moment and middle eastern fingerings the next. But the real selling point was the aptly named David Yow's manic singing/shrieking/hysterical screaming. Yow's lyrics dealt with all kinds of psychotronic imagery and deviations of every sort. The core of 'Acid eventually morphed into The Jesus Lizard, a not-much-less manic unit that traded during the grunge era.
Greatest Gift is a compilation of their first EP and subsequent album.
Greatest Gift
Touch and Go
Scratch Acid came from the same Austin scene from which the Butthole Surfers festered out of and also shared a record label (Touch & Go) with Killdozer. Scratch Acid's sound was driven by some propulsive bass playing and a guitarist (David Wm. Sims) capable of frenzied riffing one moment and middle eastern fingerings the next. But the real selling point was the aptly named David Yow's manic singing/shrieking/hysterical screaming. Yow's lyrics dealt with all kinds of psychotronic imagery and deviations of every sort. The core of 'Acid eventually morphed into The Jesus Lizard, a not-much-less manic unit that traded during the grunge era.
Greatest Gift is a compilation of their first EP and subsequent album.
Greatest Gift
posted by Chardman at 1:00 PM
6 Comments:
A classic one!! This is one of the best noise bands from the US 80s. This CD has even 3 LP's into it I think!! All they ever made. Cheers,
I bought Just Keep Eating on vinyl when it came out. It had a funky rainbow 3d piece of shit on the cover. Years later i was moving and getting my albums in order and the rainbow thing fell off and exposed a hilarious b&w picture of a kid with wigged out eyes. This band never ceased to entertain in unexpected ways! Holes still kicks ashtakoshta.
I was overjoyed to have found this CD too, as it seems to be their complete discography.
David Yow is nuts.
great post. sorry i missed out. could you please reup?
hey can u please re-up? been searching for this LP a long time heard one track and i was sold...:)
it would be great, if u re-up the thing, dude.
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