Psyclones ‎- Cult Leader Gang-Raped By Disciples (1985)

1		Cult Leader Gang-Raped By Disciples / C'Mon Down 09:57
2		Bigger And Better 04:07
3		Look At My Cut 04:15
4		On You 03:17
5		Whatcha Doin' Tonight ? 03:47
6		Peer Party 00:54
7		We Don't Want To Live Here Anymore 01:17
8		Rejection / He Who Falls 11:04
9		The Shower Song 03:54
10		Mickey Rat Macdonald 08:47
11		Triumph Of The Will 03:26
12		Anarchy 4 U / Zoo Pigs 1234 !!!! 03:14

I admit, I approached this release for the most part because I have a thing for old, lo-fi industrial music aesthetics rather than complete appreciation for the sounds within. Despite the dumbass song titles, I expected the sounds to conform to the harsh mercilessness the title and cover conjured within me rather than what the whimsical song titles seemed to imply. Turns out that it's quite clearly made by kids just taking the piss to pass the time, who still possessed the ambition to actually publicly release it (on their own label that once released music by fucking Vidna Obmana, of all people). A really thin drum machine provides the rhythm (when present), while the guitars and bass play whatever the fuck they came up with first. Sometimes they play in time.

The industrial element mostly comes in with the occasional synth intrusion and weird vocal effects, but otherwise isn't at all dominating, as if it was accidental. However, the highlight would no doubt be the lyrics; Culled from the deranged imagination of 80's teens most probably on the spot, with each rhyme and oddly lucid defamation ("I'd like to squeeze you, but you're too full of shit") they go further from the subject matter set in the beginning, culminating in bullshit lyrics like these:

"Greg's gonna get himself a beer.
Greg's gonna get himself a beer
Greg's gonna get himself a beer
Greg's gonna get himself a beer
Greg won't you come in here
Greg won't you come in here
Greg won't you come in here
Greg won't you come in here, he's got his beer
I Cut my penis.
What?
I cut my penis.
What!?
I cut my penis, I hope you don't mind (?)
WHAT"

Instead of being threatening or somehow insidious as one might expect of a tape that shares imagery with more modern variant of PE/Harsh Noise/Industrial music, it's actually rather jovial and inviting in a way. It's a temporal window into the state of mind of teenagers (I assume) absolutely bursting with creativity but without anything in particular to express. Myself associating with once having had a similarly juvenile mindset myself.. this probably serves as a memory of simpler times for the makers behind it. Whether this window is something passer-by's would want to peek into at all depends on ones individual voyeurism, level (maturity?) of humor and tolerance of abject inanity, because truly, this is dumb as hell. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, really.

link dead
observe; the most half-assed call to revolution
this youtuber rigged the download link for me, so, dno, go give him/her/it a hug or something.