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Track Listing
1. Super-Fire
2. Click Click
3. Crash 17 (X-Rated Car)
4. Disco Six Six Six
5. Life in Pink
6. Thekindamzkyoulike
7. Vera Cruz
8. Anotherdroneinmyhead
9. Cash Machine
10. Wilmington
11. Zodiac Love Team
| Details | | Producer: | Ted Niceley | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Girls Against Boys: Scott McCloud (vocals, guitar); Eli Janney (vocals, bass, keyboards); Johnny Temple (bass); Alexis Fleisig (drums).
Recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey in September 1995.
Girls Vs. Boys are the low-riding Cadillac of rock. In Scott McCloud's gritty, deadpan vocals, one can't help but visualize the urban decay of their New York City domain--a place where filth sounds sorta sexy, and where a low-end bass section has replaced the heartbeat.
On "Super-fire" and "TheKindaMzkYouLike," Girls Against Boys throb with the monotonous drive that made both Motown and The Stooges sound so primal. It's as if there's a mechanical, factory-inspired beat behind the guitar-based quartet. With its devious rhythms and chilling lyrics ("your head is dead, your body's wasted"), HOUSE OF GVSB seems to be a flophouse on the road to rock and roll. If so, degeneracy has never sounded so good.
The fourth album by post-punk-leaning alternative rockers Girls Against Boys is a solid effort that highlights the band's abilities across 11 excellent tracks, and while it may not have gotten as much attention as some of their other releases, it's actually one of the best.
The band's dual-bass attack and surging push-pull rhythms, and lead singer Scott McCloud's Mark E. Smith-influenced vocals are all in peak form.
The opening track, "Super-Fire," one of the standouts, rides an undulating, mid-tempo groove that is thrashy and funky at once. The guitar squall of "Disco 666" serves as a perfect complement to the aggressive drum line. Throughout, the music manages to be both tough and sexy: a case study in what GVSB do best.
Industry Reviews
...intense bites of depraved carnality that made women faint and men envious...
Alternative Press (05/01/1996)
Terminally tense singers and guitars that resemble low-speed power drills may be alterna-rock cliches, but these droners make those elements sound fresh and musical... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (03/22/1996)
8 (out of 10) - ...GVSB sound like some bizzare coital scandal waiting to happen, exuding tense sexual atmosphere like nothing this side of your local municipal library....a spot of sleazy shenanigans, courtesy of some devilishly suave US anti-heroes...
NME (03/02/1996)
Recommended - ...it rips through you like Ebola, hypes the room, your head, the moment with electricity....GVSB's guitars are full-blooded, glaring, but they're always honed to a single zone of impact....their most on-the-money bolt of perfection yet...
Melody Maker (03/02/1996)
3 Stars (out of 5) - ...further spit and polish to their patented murky swagger...
Q (04/01/1996)
9 (out of 10) - ...the biggest, most contemporary sounding, and physically enticing hard rock anyone is offering....Fugazi, Big Black,...Sonic Youth...are some of the post-punk tributaries pop-alternative has largely passed by; Girls Against Boys' achievement is to show how the legacy of bands like these...wasn't insular avant-gardism but a revolution in how hard rock could sound, must sound, if it's to go forward...
Spin (04/01/1996)
3 Stars (out of 5) - ...combinations of three or four killer riffs and a juggernautlike groove....The effect is mesmerizing even though the tunes aren't stricily memorable...
Rolling Stone (05/02/1996)
Ranked #5 on Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '96.'
Spin (01/01/1997)
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