You Give Love a Bad Name (album)
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You Give Love a Bad Name | ||||
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Homestead Records (original LP) Awareness Records (CD reissue) | ||||
Producer | GG Allin & The Holy Men | |||
GG Allin chronology | ||||
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You Give Love a Bad Name is the fourth
, recorded with his backing band the Holy Men. Reissues credit the release mistakenly to GG Allin and the Criminal Quartet.The album was the first to fully mark a distinct change in his vocal tone, which by this time began to take on a slurred and gravelly characteristic, and increasing usage of shock rock lyrical content.
History
After the release of the
Enter Gerard Cosloy, who had already played
Music
On May 18, 1987, Allin entered a low-budget studio called The Music Box, located on Avenue B in New York City's East Village, accompanied by a four-piece band that included Cosloy on second guitar, along with three other area musicians: lead guitarist Greg Bullock, bassist Mike Kirkland, and drummer Mike "Machine Gun" Edison. Allin dubbed the session band The Holy Men.
Musically, Allin eschewed the hyper
"Tough Fuckin' Shit" is an uncredited rewrite of Nancy Sinatra's "Sorry 'Bout That". And "I'm a Rapist" (sic)is musically the track "Blood for You" but with new lyrics (both originally appeared on 1986's self-released cassette EP The Sleaziest, Loosest Sluts by GG Allin & The Cedar Street Sluts.
"Beer Picnic" is a faithful, if slower, version of a song by obscure NYC punk band Bad Tuna Experience. (G.G. asked for—but did not receive—permission to record the song; he bought a cassette tape from Bad Tuna members after reading the lyrics, written by Bad Tuna's Carolyn and No Thanks' Donna Damage, in
While most of the song titles are self-explanatory, "Suck Dog" is reportedly about writer and performance artist Lisa Crystal Carver.
Recording tales
During the sessions,
All ten of the songs were rehearsed and recorded in one day-long session. Cosloy produced but did not take production credit, instead claiming on the liner notes that he "re-mixed, unmixed, and edited" the album as heard in its final form.
Bonus tracks
In 1992, while Allin was serving a prison sentence for parole violation in Jackson, Michigan, Awareness Records reissued You Give Love a Bad Name, adding the Watch Me Kill 7-inch EP recorded on July 7, 1991, in Lowell, Massachusetts, by Allin, with himself and then-collaborator Mark Sheehan (of the band Out Cold) playing all of the instruments, plus an interview conducted over the phone from prison on March 4, 1991, with journalist Jeff Koch.
Track listing
Original 1987 LP
All songs written by G.G. Allin except where noted.
Side one
- "Swank Fuckin'" (G.G. Allin, Mike Edison) - 2:53
- "Bloody Mary's Bloody Cunt" (G.G. Allin, Mike Edison) - 3:26
- "Tough Fuckin' Shit" - 2:08
- "I'm a Rapest" - 4:27
- "Suck Dog" (G.G. Allin, Greg Bullock) - 2:50
Side two
- "Teenage Twats" (G.G. Allin, Gerald Cosloy) - 3:29
- "Beer Picnic" (Bad Tuna Experience) - 4:22
- "Stink Finger Clit" (G.G. Allin, Gerald Cosloy) - 3:04
- "Scars on My Body - Scabs on My Dick" (G.G. Allin, Bloody F. Mess, Gerald Cosloy) - 2:30
- "Garbage Dump" (Charles Manson) - 2:23
CD reissue bonus tracks
- "Watch Me Kill the Boston Girl" - 1:00
- "Castration Crucifixion" - 2:06
- "Snakeman's Dance" - 3:04
- "Slaughterhouse Deathcamp" - 1:15
- "Feces and Blood" - 3:41
- "Master Daddy" - 1:45
- "Interview from Prison" - 15:58
Personnel
- GG Allin - vocals, engineer, voices, producer
- Gerard Cosloy - guitar, editing, backing vocals, remixing, sequencing, mixing
- Mike Kirkland - bass
- Greg Van Voorst - percussion, backing vocals
- Greg Bullock - guitar, backing vocals
- Mike "Machine Gun" Edison - drums, backing vocals
- Jaques Kralian - engineer
- Wharton Tiers - sequencing
- Bloody F. Mess - liner notes
- Georgia Hubley - cover layout
References
- AllMusic