Classic Albums #4: Pussy Galore's Right Now
 

Rock n Roll heaven or a pointless art school prank by Lester Bangs obsessives?

It's certainly one of my favorite records ever.

I really don't have anything else to add.

i don't have it, what's it like?

Well I absolutely love it so I'm probably not the best person to answer that. Think of three bands stuck in the same room, playing three different Cramps songs, all at the same time. If that sounds like a good thing, then you might just think it's the biz'niz. If not, then I really don't know what to say.

[edit:] You like New York though, right? You'll fuckin' LOVE it then. Trust me.

Yes, a complete riff fest, and deadly while listening with headphones on.

I haven't got, or listened to enough, any of these bloody so-called classic albums apart from Sgt Pepper's. I demand a Happy Hardcore classic for the next classic album, please.

A near perfect distillation of 30 years of rock and roll. Definitely the pinnacle of PG's output.

its good but not as good as corpse love or dial m for mutherfucker.

another album I do not know.

if it sounds anything like the cramps, then i am sorry to say I will never like it. I hate me that rockabilly garbage, but i will go find this in the used bin and give it several spins.

Corpse Love doesn't really count as an album, as such, but would agree that there's stuff on it that shows PG at their very best. I much prefer Right Now to Dial M though, which always sounds too much like it's anticipating the Blues Explosion's more pastiche-like elements.

Punch Out is one of the most righteous things ever done in the name of Rock n Roll.

[edit:] Listening to Dial M again now. Forgot just how good it actually is. A close call between it and Right Now, definitely.

I don't have this one. You sure it's a classic?

I have a couple of Pussy Galore things, but I'm not sure I'd call them better than Sgt. Pepper's or Something/Anything.

Probably not, when compared with something like Pepper. But then that's a fairlly exceptional benchmark to judge by. It's a 'scene' classic, I suppose. Either way, it deserves its own thread if only because it might start some kind of debate regarding what a 'classic' album actually is in the first place.

pimper's paradies is a great Wailers song.

As the saying goes, "piss off Rob."

good.

harry pussy is the better pussy band, but still.. haha.

yeah, i do dig this though, probably the best "classic" (is it a classic? at least we're not discussing about loveless or daydream nation for the 36409468340968th time) that we've talked of yet.

Is it possible for a band to have the word 'pussy' in their name and not be great?

Pussy Cat Dolls?

Thanks to Melly falling into a barrel of beer last night, I shall be brief. I love this goddamn album, and i regret that I never saw PG live.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!1111

definitely a classic!!!!!!!!!!!!111 and much better than sgt. pepper (which i love too).

if its anything like "now i got worry" then i think i would love it.
unfortunately, Australia has shit all pussy galore available.

This vid isn't from Right Now, but for those that haven't heard them, you'll get the idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0fikUrtTTQ

Youtube has some other vids by bands called Pussy Galore, but this is the only one on there by the 'actual' band.

How the mighty fell part 23:



Jon Spencer in full cool-as-fuck mode. HOT.



The Spencer in Heavy Trash mode - Bads Seeds couture. NOT.

Hideous! Talk about someone having no idea what was good about them in the first place.

I always thought there was a similarity to the bands in that their first albums and collected singles were great and the compilings of each are amazing (Corpse Love and What Was Music respectively) and then they both put out 2nd albums that just sucked. The end.

On the subject of PG, what's with the Einsturzende-ish symbol on "Sugarshit Sharp"?

NVM, I forgot Yu Guns was an EN cover.

one of the best bands ever.

i'm still stuck on corpse love so i can't really say anything.

just that it's a very good call on this neglected by the mainstream critics and fans to discuss.

how about a ravaging of a classic that in turn becomes a classic (and a classic rarity at that)?, of course i'm talking about exile on main street.

anyway, i'm still pissed no one read my post on damaged.

A funny thing about PG is that they got to play one of their tunes for an East-coast TV channel.
The thing can be seen on "Maximum Penetration", a video on Atavistic that ain't quite good since it shows a black & white gig, the camera directed towards a TV set showing the band, a painful thing to see. And the lyrics are buried too.
Still, in the middle of the tape, you've got that TV host (was it New Brunswick?), introducing the band, about to play one of their tracks from their "Pussy Gold 5000" EP.
Cristina Martinez had already been sacked, and you've got the 4 remaining members :
Neil Hagerty, hidden by his hanging hair, Julie Cafritz, torturing her guitar chords, Bob Bert, eyes closed, happily achieving not to hit any cymbal or drumkit, and Jon Spencer...
Spencer wears a leather coat fit for a tall muscular guy. Spencer, at that period of time, was even slimer that these days, and the coat seems to weigh a ton on his shoulders.
He's got a nice heavy looking guitar he barely touches. The guitar hangs low, and he can't lip-sync the song properly, for it was quite impossible to do so as all came out impulsively or spontaneously on record (same for gigs, regarding material prior to JSBX Acme). All he seems to be thinking of is "when will my recorded voice spurt out? shit, too late", with that weight on his shoulders, and the weight of his guitar bringing him down.
To cap it all, when the music ends, his guitar falls to the ground, its suspender (?) cracking.
This, the falling guitar part, is to be seen in the video Sonic Youth made for Teenage Riot.

As for Right Now, I don't know it; just heard and liked a lot NYC1999 (from the video).

EDIT : "funny thing" I wrote. I didn't mean to laugh at the man. My jaw dropped when I first saw it for Spencer had gathered every single cliché about rock'n'roll when he didn't seem to fit for the part. His desire to become THE number one could be seen and I respected that a lot.

any contenders for the next classic album?

the next classic album should be polvo - today's active lifestyles.

or disco volante. or yank crime. or vision creation newsun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the hundredth time, SELL ME THAT VIDEO. P L E A S E !:mad:

next classic?

misfits - walk among us, i have a good question about them.
or iron maiden's powerslave (hell, i'd accept a number of the beast thread just so i can dismember that album).

or esle, i echo today's active lifestyles and yank crime.

I only like the first couple of Blues Exp. albums. After that JS turned into a right prat.

VCN, TAL, or Yank Crime are all CLASSICS.

I'm glad you're so much less "pathetic" now with less "non-direction.":rolleyes: