Tuesday 3 May 2022

Ad Nauseam – "Mass Murder Tape" (Retaliation Records – Fight Box 7) 1982

Altogether now......
"Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher
Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher Fatcher"

One has to admire the barely articulated rage of the British working class youth back in 1982,as un-articulated by Portsmouth located UK82 Hardcore band 'Ad Nauseam',with their rather catchy underground 'Hit' dedicated to the dubious achievements of a dead Prime Minister,namely the right honorable, former member for Finchley, Margaret Thatcher.....contracted for poetic reasons to just "Fatcher";a pronunciation which helps the tongue twisting nature of expectorating the "Th" sound, at 70 miles per hour several hundred times in the sing-a-long chorus of track number One.
Yer average Sex Pistols fan had to choose which side they were on when their bestest favourite Punk Rock group split up. Go with John Lydon and invent Post-Punk, or go in the shouty leather jacketed direction of the Sid Clone for the rest of their natural lives.
I can quite comfortably say that Ad Nauseam went in the direction of the latter. Although, I must commend the Sid clone on dumping Sidney's total lack of any moral standpoint whatsoever.I don't think Sid gave a shit about war or poverty,but his clones did,rather surprisingly. The G.G. Allin direction was, thankfully, only followed by a small minority of morons......but, one has to say,if you're gonna embrace the cruel inevitabilites of  the Rock'n'Roll dead end in all it's Nihilistic glory and celebrated stupidity,then G.G. and Sid played the role to the very last ransom note letter.
When the Punk Rock Super Nova burnt out,collapsed under its own gravity and left a super-massive black hole to fill;just this side of the event horizon were thousands of inarticulate shouty groups like Ad Nauseam decked out in denim and levver ,but,strangely, with the imported moral mindset of politico-punk sophisticates,Sham 69(?).
Its actually all quite funny stuff ,yet i'm still dumbfounded as to how it all came down to this? Rock'n'Roll's lowest common denominator. 

Tracklist:

A1 Thatcher
A2 Mass Murder
A3 Fuck I Ain't Bovered
A4 What A State
A5 Don't Vote
B1 Why Fight Each Other
B2 Fire
B3 Weapons Of Peace
B4 Once Upon A Time
B5 Daddy Daddy


12 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'll definitely check this out. One thing I've never understood is why British hardcore is often so lame and bad?

rev.b said...

@ anon, because that's the way they like it.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Indeed Rev...also maybe why there's a total lack of Homo-Erotica involved in UK Hardcore. They always remain fully dressed,even on the hottest of evenings...except the Drummer od course...we know what drummers are like don't we?

Anonymous said...

Maybe Crass are to blame?

Anonymous said...

aaaarghhhhhhh!

anonymus no. 2

Anonymous said...

@ we know what drummers are like don't we?

do we? doobie? doobiedoobie doo.... I don't.

luv dadd tape and promise 2 listen 2 it til i puke. hähähä

lack of homo erotica in uk hc? - yeah, fer sure, cause all the gay boys in the music biz had already gone pop by 1981, if my memory surfs me right.....

westcoast ami Hc was definitely diff.

anonymus no. 2

Anonymous said...

USA hardcore dudes really liked getting nearly naked on stage that's for sure.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Oh God, I saw The Agnostic Front and i didn't know where to look.As that geezer in Anal Cunt would have said..."Way Too Gay"

Richie Muster said...

I've no intention of downloading this; i just wanted to say this site is flipping marvellous! ('scuse the eff word there.) Discovering it was like listening to Peelie for the 1st time, all those aeons ago. Nicely twicely!

Jonny Zchivago said...

HaHa! We need more punters like you who don't download stuff.Music always sounds better if you don't listen to it.Just Imagine it...its always better.

I may forward your comment to that bastard in Vinyl On Demand, who seemed to think that I Think That "i am John Peel" after i defended myself making available his wares for free download,and the prospect of being banned,as just the same as Banning 'The John Peel Show' in 1978. Q.E.D...that means I think I'm John Peel!?.....no, just a similar raison d'etre...to make available music that you ain't heard before for Fuck all...unlike Vinyl On Demand, who ask hundreds of fucking... (sorry for the swearing).... Quid!

Cheers Richie...you're a fine man.

Anonymous said...

Good on yer mate. You can also tell him from me he's nothing but a fetish pimp and I'd happily watch him drink trampshit. Anyone who profiteers from music deserves nothing less.

Richie Muster said...

Arghh. Sometimes this damned phone won't let me sign in with my username. T'above were me mate. Aploplogees.