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Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies

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This album is truly horrible, makes the Meatmen look like Mother Theresa. Awful production (I worked with the guy who recorded this album and he said thats the way GG wanted it), awful lyrics, awful singing, and awful music. There is nothing redeeming about this record, nothing to recommend it from a normal standard of bad or good. It is what it is: the rawest, rudest gutter minded, violent filth ever waxed. GG Allin was perhaps the most extreme performance artist I've ever encountered, a man who turned to music rather than murder to express himself. He celebrated everything Dionysian, from excrement to sex to sweat, piss and mucus and of course blood. He lived as he sang, the man was a one of a kind single minded loser bent on creating the most dangerous rock and roll he could using his mind and especially his body. And I think he succeeded with his live shows where he would play naked, cut himself with bottles so that blood ran down his face, fling his feces at the audience and punch out anybody who got in his way. His shows, when he actually got to play his whole set, were scary and freaking intense but emotionally cathartic. I remember leaving the one and only show I saw shaking and drained, yet excited from the experience. What a freak. The CDs however pale in comparison to GG in the stinking flesh but are worth having if only to horrify your friends and for a little release when things get too uptight. There will never be another like him, thank god.

The music is disgusting and raw. The vocals are savage and one can tell GG ripped his throat up singing these songs. Everyone knows GG Allin was an ignorant nutcase who gleefully mutilated his body through drugs and violence. That's no reason to boycott the music. If anything, GG was real. The music, likewise, is real. No other artist can capture the brutal desperation which pervades this CD. It is the ultimate look into the mind of the criminally insane: From the grasping song, 'Dope Money' to the grotesque 'Young Little Meat.' By listening, you LIVE the seedy, crass filth of GG Allin. You watch bloody horror movies don't you? Well, I listen to bloody horror music. Get over it.

I don't know how many people are in my situation but I got into G.G. through his stage show not his music. I had several bootleg VHS most on stage and some off. Even one where a girl defecated into his mouth. To me, G.G. was performance art and I loved it!

I only got to see G.G. once and luckily he did all his exploits. He told the audience to put the mike stand into his anus and when the fan just poked him on his cheeks, he started trying to punch him in the face. He urinated. He defecated. He flung his feces. He got in fights. He beat his head with the microphone until he bled. A fan sprayed him with a fire extinguisher. And it ended with the club owner removing him from the stage under threat of baseball bat.

Now that's a show. However, I never really knew much about the music. It really didn't seem to be much but screaming noise from the VHS and the concert but I was focused on other aspects of the entertainment.

I love music such as the Meatmen, Fear and the Dayglo Abortions as far as punk goes. I just didn't see G.G. as really making music like this.

Well, lately with watching the G.G. documentary Hated several times, I began to notice "Die When You Die" and "Bite It You Scum" were actually great songs. I also started noticing other songs such as "Expose Yourself to Kids" were really good as well.

So I decided to check out which G.G. cds I should get.

Beware. G.G. has put out a lot of s**t and not just from his *ss onstage. He has albums which are total pop punk with pop punk vocals. He has country sounding albums. He has folk sounding albums. He has some that are just plain crappy.

This is the best one I've found and it is great. There are even some exceptional songs I hadn't seen him do in the many videos I've watched of his concerts. The best is "Dope Money". Another exceptional one is "Sleeping In My P*ss".

This also has the essential "Die When You Die" and "C*nt Sucking Cannibal".

The only other essential songs I know of (but I may be ignorant of other essential G.G. songs) are "Expose Yourself to Kids" which you can get on "Anti-Social Personality Disorder Live" and "Bite It You Scum" which you can get on the Hated Soundtrack.

Anti-Personality Disorder Live is great overall. The Hatred soundtrack really isn't all that special except for the necessary "Bite It You Scum".

I'm sure you can get the G.G. essentials other ways, this is the way I did it.

Again, I don't know if anyone else primarly knows G.G. from his incredible performance art and wants to also get his music. This is the first one to get in my opinion.

this stuff is pretty effed up indeed,but from a historical point of view you can't deny that allin did something nobody else dared to do with music:make it his kind of sickness.he proved that to be the "most punk", talent and lyrical content were secondary to persona.from what i have always understood punk was always about doing something different and new,as well as something most people wouldn't understand.gg injected punk rock with a renewed brashness and perversity that had steeped from that scene when he came on board.with that said,i only have this album and hated in the nation,have only listened to each 5 times or less,but can still see a significance to his art.some art may not be ethically sound and morally decent,but blind ignorance ALWAYS clouds the possibility to understand art and it's infinate potential.

The legend that is GG is clearly defined here. Sleeping in my piss is the ultimate anthem to alcoholism. Caroline and Sue is a great ode to having a threeway with a transvestite. Outlaw Scumfuc is probably GG's best song. I love that he tips his hat to David Allan Coe on that track. Oh yeah, GG's a sicko and should not be listened to by anyone who isnt.

This is GG's magnum opus (at least of his later career). It features such ditties as "Suck My A-- it Smells", "Die When You Die", and my personal favorite "Commit Suicide" (a song that actually encourages suicide and is very catchy!)

The music itself is some of GG's better later material, and the "Bulge" backing band manages to make a noise that is somewhere in between mid era Black Flag, the Ramones or Motorhead but more raw in many ways.

The production is much better than some of the trashy sounding singles/splits that GG was also a part of during this period, and the lyrics are mostly intelligible which makes it all the funnier. The highlight though, is Suck My A-- it Smells. It only features one line "Suck My A-- It Smells" repeated over and over. Fans of the film Hated will also recognize this song as the one they played for GG's high school music teacher! This is essential GG, no matter how disgusting, vulgar, and bigoted the lyrics are. The man was nuts so enjoy the show!

If you buy just one GG Allin recording in your life, make it this one. Angrier and more savage than his early recordings and much more raw than his later recordings with the Murder Junkies, this record is GG at his best...or his worst, depending on your mindset.

Not a horrible album, but not the best of the best either. Notible highlights are BE MY F*CKING WHORE, DIE WHEN YOU DIE, and OUTLAW SCUMFUC. Sure, the production is a bit raw at times, but it's pretty much what GG was all about. I like the CD, but i do much prefer CARNIVAL OF EXCESS, GG's stabb at Country Music. It's still got his tough lyrics, but with a country twang background.

Back in '88 , when the vast majority of punk bands either disbanded or lamed out altogether, GG produced this gem. GG said himself that this album best represented who he was , ( self destructive, self humiliating, and breaking every single social taboo possible ) GG's music introduced urination, rape , pedophilia, and use of the 'N' word in the defiant face of a rising tide of political correctness. This is what punk is supposed to be: antisocial,terrifying and repulsive to the entire population except for a small handful , say 0.1% or less . Much of GG's stuff is hit or miss, depending or who backed him up year to year , and this recording is a bit hit! If punk rock never existed, GG would have invented it himself .

To me, this and Brutality are GG's greatest works and this album is pure genious and probably one of the greatest and most origional rock albums of all time. The music, the lyrics, the passion, and the recording have an energy that could never be duplicated. The lyrics on this album are so origional. So absurd, yet so sincere. The album has the energy of a live album, yet it's still perfect. GG's voice on each track is so intense and so into it that you'd think that it was the last time he'd be singing those songs. If you ever saw footage of him preforming live or warming up, you'll see that he gave his all every time. There's only a couple of tracks on this album that you might end up skipping, but for the most part this is one of those albums that you let play straight through.

Freaks, Faggots, Drunks, and Junkies is a masterpeice. Buy it now. If you only plan on buying one GG album, make it this one.