My Classics – Sucking Chest Wound – God, Family, Country

This is more of an lp than a single song, and even then its more of a cassette than an lp, well a copied cassette….  I did eventually buy it tho, from Berlin 15yrs later.  A personal record for me in music hunting!

At my first proper job waaay back in 1994 I was a 20yr old store boy type who obviously dressed a lil alty.  During this time a very neatly dressed sales guy asked if I was a bit of a Bfmer, back then there wasn’t much else and I said I was.  He asked if I had heard of Sucking Chest Wound, strangely I hadn’t.  He informs me they are a Canadian political multi media music act, this is about where he started to lose me.  But he was insistent and he gave me a copy/burn/rip (whatever ya called that) of the cassette he had.  I doubt I ran to the stereo to stick it on immediately as Canadian political multi media music act’s weren’t high on my list of priorities at the time, I was doing the `getting loaded and having a goodtime’ thing.

Eventually it got listened to and I even recognized a song or 2 from it off Bfm, which helped. It was a strange beast to my rather young ears, all cut up samples, strange serious themes done in a vaguely humorous and funky (at times) style.

The album was recorded as a live multimedia show, but I have never seen or heard of the video being available, which is a shame.  It is divided into 3 pieces/themes – God, Family and Country, and is a bit of a Modern life is rubbish sort of angle that was news to my ears in many ways.

Heres a quick example:

http://www.scw.gts.org/sounds/ampeg/mary.mp2

The song “Mary Dear”, in which a girl hopelessly attempts to convince her puritanical parents that the other children in her school aren’t a bunch of “godless heathen”. (Mary: “Why can’t I play with the other kids around here? They’re nice.” Daddy: “Nice, you say? Ha! Spawn of the devil, just like their parents. Lazy, corrupt, evil in thought and in deed.”) Backing up the cut-up bits of dialogue was a nicely looped guitar assault “stolen” from the band everybody loves to sample, Slayer.

Every song is different but similar and all of them leave ya thinking, something I had yet to discover. But this isn’t some boring lecture mind you, it is equal parts disco and history lesson.  Bearing in mind that disco was still quite the dirty word, theres is a refrain over a classic disco loop of `KKK (Whatcha Got To Say?)’ that has completely ruined that song for me forever, mind you that is probably a good thing.  Or the history lesson on `who shoot the pope?’, deffo something to have a listen to.

I dunno how I will pick out a tune to put up, or whether I will stick the whole lp up (super out of print) as I have never listened to it in any other way than the whole cassette.  It was never out of my car when I only had a tape player in it and was on at least every couple of months for about 8yrs before the tape died, a sad day that… like losing a friend.

So yeah, Sucking Chest Wound…Not as bad as it sounds

Tracklisting:

God

1. Introduction (1:31)
2. Satan’n'Hippies’n'Drugs’n'Rock’n'Roll (5:21)
3. Big Head (4:45)
4. Who Shot The Pope? (6:54)
5. Isn’t That A Beauty? (4:20)

Family

1. Introduction (0:42)
2. Bad News Baby (4:54)
3. Mary Dear (5:29)
4. KKK (Whatcha Got To Say?) (6:06)
5. That’s Wrong (4:28)

Country

1. Introduction (0:36)
2. Interest Of Conflict (5:35)
3. Bring ‘Em To Their Knees (5:01)
4. A Sovereign Military Order (4:42)
5. Tortured And Disturbed (5:55)
6. The Pope Is A Hustler (Superstar Mix) (7:28)

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