Hmmmm,Rolf Harris died yesterday....so I thought....this....?!
Perhaps the only album on this blog that has been made by a person convicted for the possession of child pornography....(no.not Steve Albini!!!!). The Putrid Voyeurism collected on this brutal compilation of victims accounts of sexual violence, would be explained away as a grim portrait of the Human capacity for ...for want of a better word...Evil?.....were it not made by a geezer who blatantly gets off on stuff like this. No-one called the Moors Murderers 'Artists' did they. And i'm sure Sotos would go to any lengths to get his grubby little hands on the Lesley Anne Downey tape made by Brady and Hindley back in the day,an obvious obsession of his, as Lesley appears on the front cover of this CD,and even appears as the main subject in one of his books, "Selfish,Little...".
As aural Pornography goes, this is a far less subtle,but equally disturbing,honest, version of "Come on Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears, and other similar Aural sex Pop Vehicles for corporate satanic abuse rings.
When I first heard this collage ,I inexplicably played it straight through,and disturbingly felt precisely nothing, except a modicum of boredom. Was I a Monster, Am I a Monster?
Repeating this process some 30 years later, I got quite effortlessly upset at several points in this thoroughly unwholesome experience.........the boredom was still there,but It seems I am no longer a monster? Why is this? Is it that we are protected from truths such as these in this modern age,or are we more emotionally empathetic ......very trendy.Or am I depressed enough to allow the real effect of this exploration into the darker side of human nature penetrate,what i previously thought, was my desensitized black heart.
During the height of Grunge, Nirvana's producer somehow thought it was a jolly good idea to edit Soto's tapes into the collage we pretend not to know and love today. Our Steven would have had to play and listen to these harrowing accounts hundreds of times before his job was finished;then the poor sod had to go and produce Nirvana after this?Including the tasteless "Rape Me" tune........recorded(not produced) by the four-eyed grunge psychopath himself? Albini was in a band called Rapeman after all I suppose?
What Sotos, the Artist,not the Perv, examines here is the Culture of the Victim– how family members left behind are manipulated by the media, and ultimately, how their identity is redefined in the process.Perhaps one of the starkest documents, assembled for maximum impact, accounting the darkest side of human nature on the booming industrial culture 'Buyers Market'.I feel Dirty....as in unclean rather than 'Got the 'orn!?' in the Derek and Clive sense.Although i rather suspect Peter Sotos likely got 'The 'Orn',and knocked one,if not several out frequently during the process of acquiring the recordings for this dubious piece of 'Art'.
Alas,be it far more offensive and disturbing than anything any of those snowflake Death Metal/Grindcore bands could ever possibly come up with.They're just playing with it,silly boys.Which is in fact worse than Britney Spears and her awful daddy.
If you're not moved by this profoundly disturbing record in any way,except,of course, turned on sexually (turn yourself into the nearest police station if this is the case), you probably are the fucking monster I no longer am and Fuck you.
1 Children 17:52
2 McMartin 9:03
3 Trash 11:24
4 Bundy 10:04
5 Victims 13:23
16 comments:
After Rolf Harris' convictions, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" doesn't seem innocent at all.
thanks but no thanks.
I suppose this vile-sounding item is supposed to "shock us out of our complacency" ala 'Funny Games', 'Irreversible', Peaches or BBC Verify.
"Sun arise, early in de mornin'"....always ready with his didgeridoo was Rolf.
Sotos' complaints about the album, I read somewhere...maybe in one of his books? was the art, and that the album "didn't get into the hands of the people he intended..."......or something like that. To Fanny, the last thing sotos' is interested in, in my opinion is to shock anyone, although that certainly sounds like something that would appeal to albini's 13 year old intelect. Thanks for the post, it's nothing if not compelling.
Just back from a few great days at the beach so I haven't had time to really look at this :)
Thought it might interest you:
http://www.rolfharrisisinnocent.com/
:)
This would ruin anyone's day at the beach.
Well, there weren't any crocodiles, nothing to tie down there. Huge freaking lizards though, coming out of the mangrove forest, about 10 of them, 2 meter long beasts, fed them what was left of the shrimps :)
henk...can't say the beaches around here have many lizards begging for prawns, but there are usually a few naked women who look rather reptilian qaffing oysters....but we do have a beach bar, a dinosaur previously thought extinct until recently.
Rarely go there,the fresh water lake option with its martian landscape near by is better,although the nudists infiltrate there too...there is also a bar there too.Such civilisation?
personally, i think sotos should be punched in the face until there is nothing left just so i could swiftly move on to boyd rice
ooohhh, can't say that. we are the champions of the transgressive and nobody cancels our culture!
sotos is an inconsequential wank stain on the 80's industrial sock. maybe once he anally exhaled something of interest but that smell faded a very long time ago
That's rather harsh Mr Stumpy......i'd go even further myself, and punch every wank-stain in the Industrial Idiom until they are fit to feature on the cover of the next Vinyl on Demand Sutcliffe Jugend box set. And the the idiots who buy it. Cancel them. It bores the living bejesus out of me.
By the way, congrats on Man City's success from us old skool teams in the Championship.....I suspect we won't be back for several years,which i'm ok with.Proper Football...as they say.
Honestly, some of you people just think (and talk) too much. The only reason this thing has any sort of "reputation" is because that's what's been propagated over the years. It's nothing but a collection of public recordings. It might be in questionable taste, but it's just an assembled piece of audio verite, really. Any "outrage" mustered from it is coming from the listener, not the source.
And as for the "author"/assembler, a little too much is made of him as well. He's an essentially harmless, pretentious, closet-case queen. No less, and most certainly no more. The fact that he's not more widely known has less to do with his subject matter, and more to do with the fact that he's just an endlessly insufferable bore of a windbag. (Which is why he and William Bennett got along, obviously. Birds(eeds) of a feather, and all that.)
Everybody just let out a big fart. It'll all be OK. Promise.
It's all just audio culled from sensationalist mainstream television and radio and stitched together. About as edgy as Jerry Springer.
Penis arise early in de mornin
Peter is a great guy. Totally won't diddle yer kidz
Now do Pseudoscorpion by Zenjin
@Anonymous 4......No Zenjin - Pseudoscorpion happening here....apart from not wanting to be cancelled....i think thats a step too far....I can hear the cops smashing my door down as I type!
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