RIGHTEOUS PIGS — Live and Learn (review)

RIGHTEOUS PIGS — Live and Learn album cover Album · 1989 · Deathgrind Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Vim Fuego
What do you do if you're a fan of extreme music, but you live in Las Vegas, the world capital of easy listening lounge music? You make your own, like Righteous Pigs did. ‘Live and Learn’ is a harsh, horrible sounding album, full of inept drumming, tuneless out-of-time shouting, and chaotic guitar and bass which only occasionally manages to string together a riff. The production is awful, the mix unbalanced, and the lyrics misogynistic and deliberately offensive. The band sounds like it is falling apart at times. Hell, there’s even two songs listed which don’t actually appear on the album. So why the hell is it so damned addictive? The attraction is the unrestrained violence of it all — brutal, unpolished, in your face, and downright confrontational. Vocalist Joe Caper can't sing. He knows it. He sounds like he'd kick your face in if you told him. Scott Leonard's drumming sounds like he was in the band just because he was the only drummer the rest of the band knew. Throw tin cans and ball bearings in a food processor and change the speed from time to time and you'll get something like the effect he produces. The band does hit the right note from time to time. ‘Misconduct’ sounds like MOD playing Grindcore, all four members of the band managing to stay together for two minutes. Other tracks like ‘Hidden Zit’, ‘Celibate Tease’ and the delightfully titled ‘I Hope You Die In A Hotel Fire’ could all be vintage Extreme Noise Terror. On the liner notes, the band complains they had to re–record the album after mixing had been fucked up initially. It would have been difficult for the end result to have been much worse, or much better. Much of the charm of this album is its spontaneous, immature, amateur feel. The blast beats are insane. The lyrics are vicious. Two tracks listed on the cover are missing from the album. The whole beautiful mess finishes so quickly you feel compelled to play it a second time. Oh yeah. Guitarist Mitch Harris went on to join Napalm Death.
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