Dusted

Live Skull | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 1994)
• Label: Homestead
• ASIN: B000008HST
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,687 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Machete

2. Cavity

3. Dusted Part 2

4. Kream

5. (X) W/ The Light

6. Slugfest

7. Debbie's Headache

8. Back In The Earth

9. 5-D

10. Fat Of The Land

11. Dusted Drummer

12. Alive Again

13. Pusherman

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Essential Part of 80s NYC, August 21, 2007

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AlexBooksAndCDs "AlexBooksAndCDs" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dusted (Audio CD)

I went up to NYC in 1984 and saw LIVE SKULL featured in Bleaker Bob's record store, I was always *intending* to pick some up, but I was busy for 20 years and just got around to it. Wow! An incredible, stunning album, probably my favorite Live Skull studio album, noisy, jangly, abstruse guitars that really turn me on. I love it.

4.0 out of 5 stars FM radio on acid, December 22, 2010

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quintessencesluglord "Insomniac extraordinaire" (15 minutes behind) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dusted (Audio CD)

The first time I heard this CD, I was so ecstatic to even find some Live Skull, let alone on CD. They are one of the most criminally overlooked and under-appreciated bands to come out of noise-rock scene.

This is easily one of their best albums (of an all too brief catalog marked by some flawed gems), marking the transition of Thalia Zedek and "Bloody" Rich Hutchins into the fold, and the eventual departure of Marnie Greenholz and James Lo.

And so what do you get? A complex interplay of guitars and angular song structures that would do Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd proud. A thunderous rhythm section with either Lo or Hutchins behind the kit. And that nervous energy you get right before the hallucinogenics kick in. These are some of their most accomplished compositions before they decided to streamline their sound a bit, with more polish than found on their previous albums.

And if that wasn't enough, you also get a brutal reading of the Curtis Mayfield classic, Pusherman, which pulls off the hat trick of homage and yet being completely their own. This one especially needs to be heard to be believed.

Even though the comparisons with their more commercially successful contemporaries are constantly made (which I listen to and adore as well), Live Skull can easily stand on their own, which this album proves in spades.