Songs About Fucking
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| Studio album by Big Black | ||||
| Released | September 10, 1987 | |||
| Genre | Noise rock, post-hardcore, post-punk, industrial rock, punk rock | |||
| Length | 31:45 | |||
| Label | Touch and Go | |||
| Producer | Big Black | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| NME | 9/10 |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  |
| Select | 5/5 |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10 |
| Underground | 2.5/3 |
| The Village Voice | A− |
Songs About Fucking is the second full-length and final studio album by the noise rock band Big Black. It placed 54th on Pitchfork Media's 'Top 100 Albums of the 1980s'. Included are covers of Kraftwerk's "The Model" (in a remixed version from the one on their recent B-side), and on the CD version, Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore".
Steve Albini has said that Songs About Fucking is the Big Black album that he is most satisfied with. In a 1992 interview with Maximumrocknroll magazine, Albini said:
The band had already decided to split up before the album was recorded, prompted by guitarist Santiago Durango's decision to enroll in law school, and the band's desire to quit while at their peak.
Songs About Fucking has been called "certainly the most honest album title of the rock'n'roll era". Lyrical themes on the album include South American killing techniques ("Colombian Necktie"), bread that gets you high ("Ergot"), and how "slowly, without trying, everyone becomes what he despises most". While the album's title (commonly blanked out when displayed in shops on its release) and the sleeve were controversial, according to one reviewer, "as brutal as that cover is, the music is even more so", and it was considered "as dark and frightening as the band name suggests" by another, Treble's Hubert Vigilla, who goes on to say "Songs About Fucking is loud, it's abrasive, it's unattractive in the extreme ... So really, it's everything that made Big Black so great in the first place". Dave Henderson of Underground magazine gave the album a two and a half out of three rating, calling it "a napalm attack that sticks to your skin like burning party-jell, spiced with hundreds and thousands, a prickly sensation that's as all-consuming as it is repellent".
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