Lambchop
Turd Goes Back: Essential Tracks from Secret Secret Sourpuss & Big Tussie
Grapefruit Record Club
2011
Rating: 6 pooped hula girls out of 10
This Lambchop record is not your typical release - it's part of a subscription-based club and obviously somewhat hard to come by, unless you have said subscription. I've never been much a of a gambler so these sorts of clubs where you pay a chunk of money up front but don't know what you'll be sent never appealed to me, though I do like them in theory. This particular release, to quote the label's website "...is an assemblage of Kurt Wagner’s early recordings, taken from two rare cassettes." And it sounds like it - specifically, the audio quality makes it sound like those cassettes were inside of an answering machine or something worse. This is definitely a "die hard fans only" type of release, but then again anyone going to the trouble of seeking this out probably fits that moniker. There are still a few gems on this - early versions of "My Cliche" and "Soaky in the Pooper" are nice to hear, die hard or not.
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