Saturday 13 June 2009

Bongwater - The Power Of Pussy

This is the most accessible of the four Bongwater albums in my opinion, and it's fuckin nuts. Lots of surreal dialogues over kinda mad psychedelic strumming and percussive noises courtesy of underground legend Kramer. Singer Ann Magnuson is a great lyricist and I'll warn you now, some of these tracks contain 'strong language'.

My relationship with Bongwater began in about 1991 when I got a tape of this album, listened to it like fuck then tracked down a couple of the other ones. Hadn't heard anything quite like it. Very droney, very druggy, go check it oot if you've not heard of 'em.

If you can't be bothered with the album as a whole, go check out 'Nick Cave Dolls' - it's got a long drawn out intro followed by a David Lynch-esque track with whispered vocals and tape loop noises - a good starting point for the band...



Bongwater - The Power Of Pussy
1 - The Power Of Pussy
2 - Great Radio
3 - What If?
4 - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
5 - Chicken Pussy
6 - White Rental Car Blues
7 - Nick Cave Dolls
8 - Bedazzled
9 - Obscene And Pornographic Art
10 - Connie
11 - What Kind Of Man Reads Playboy?
12 - I Need A New Tape
13 - Women Tied Up In Knots
14 - Junior
15 - Mystery Hole
16 - Time Is Coming
17 - Folk Song

Buy it here

2 comments:

Novemberer said...

Have you heard Double Bummer? Now THAT'S a masterpiece...!

Purgatori said...

Incredible. Thanks.