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

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