Pigs

A slightly themed post today. Pigs. For mostly no particular reason. I've listened to Death in June's very fine "All Pigs Must Die" disc rather recently, so I suppose pigs are still haunting the back of my mind.



1. Pig Pen Victim
2. Social Sacrifice

A lovely sad song about a farmer who falls into his hog pen and is eaten alive by the pigs sung at a slow and mournful pace. Brings a tear to your eye it does. B-side is an even better song about ugly people.
This little tidbit is notable because it's on the very sought after What? Records label that put out some records of note including the (previously posted "Forming" by the Germs.) Pat Smear of said Germs also plays on these toe tapping numbers here as well. He would eventually go onto fame playing live with some famous band with a dead guy in it.



1. Bountiful Living
2. Ring Around the Collar

Chi-Pig. Akron. 1978. All you really need to know.
A song about cruising and a song about that great 70's scourge of collar stains. You tried rubbing them out and you tried scrubbing them out...
The two lasses in the tight pants played previously with the late & much mythologized Peter Laughner If you like be a cool person & buy their Miami cd from CdBaby. It'd make your mother proud.



1. Happy Birthday Sweet 16
2. Our Movement

I don't usually go much for the English white guy pop reggae beat kind of stuff, but for some reason this lovely little slab of pure teenage angst rises well above the crowd of tedium to be quite a lovely little tune with some really nice lyrical touches.
Not much really to find about the band online. I do recognize the name of Nick Haeffner on the back as the person behind an odd neo-psych lp called the "Great Indoors" that I had back in the Dark Ages when you had to find out about music on the streets and in magazines in the back of dark dingy stores. He's apparently made a name for himself as an Alfred Hitchock scholar of some sort. Good for him. The single itself came out on the Waldo's Records label.