Big Score of the Week

Finally found a copy of the CD album Prick by Pig Pen, from 1992. Not only was the price agreeable, but it was sealed; never-played. I can't, however, find words to "review" or sum-up the album, except to say that the band's playing was really tight and the lyrics to the songs are straight-from-life perversity. Take, for example, the song "Sundress," in which the narrator explains that it was so hot that day that he ended-up walking around the city in his girlfriend's sundress. Other songs are delightfully explicit in unquotably "adult" subject-matter, but the band also covers the old playground favorite, "Diarrhea," complete with childish oralingual "poot" sound-effects. I do find unfortunate that the drums are distractively prominent in the mixes, and not enough of the badass punk-blues guitar comes through, but overall, this CD is now among the select which I retain after ripping. Since the reader has probably never heard (of) this band, a little cred can be imparted by the fact that Pig Pen's singer/guitarist, Unk, was interviewed prominently in the excellent documentary Hated, about G.G. Allin.