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Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel, Foetus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Thirsty Ear
• ASIN: B0000057NN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,427 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Reasserted restored artwork in digi-pack format --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album is soooo Wrong., October 3, 2000

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Big Tim "butch99xx" (NYC, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hole (Audio CD)

Discovering this album is like discovering masturbation. You think its wrong, but you still want to tell everyone you know about it. You decide not to cause your afraid that your friends will think your sick for loving it so much, so you sit in your room playing it over and over until you meet someone who shares your obsession and you become best friends forever. No it's not healthy, but do you think owning a Celine Dion album is?

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure joyful madness!, May 7, 2003

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Michael G. Hannaford (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hole (Audio CD)

This incredible album still blows my mind after ten years of listening. I can only assume that every Foetus fan has heard it by now, so this review is directed at the Foetus newbie who wonders if this is the next one s/he should buy after "Flow". The answer is a resounding YES YES YES.

This is good ol' Jim Thirlwell at his 80's peak, recording his deliciously witty, musically insane songs in some scummy studio with no sequencers or Pro-Tools or any of them other computerized falsifiers of evidence that abound these days. You have to imagine this one man, undoubtedly drunk, locked in a dark room with a delay pedal, recording the beginnings of "I'll Meet You in Poland, Baby," spending hours twiddling the delay knobs to get all those samples to line up JUST RIGHT. You gotta imagine him laying down the drum track, then the next drum track, then another and another and another... then a bass track... then horns, organ, guitar, millions of vocals - like Satan's version of Prince. Knocking off everything from punk to jazz to Iggy Pop to the Beach Boys to old school funk along the way... nothing is safe from the Foetus tirade.

But as much as I love his music, the real reason why I love Foetus so much is the words. The dark humor, the endless puns, the never-ending string of witticisms - I don't know why, I just love them. Example, from "Satan Place" : "I'm knock-knock-knock-knockin on death's door / do you remember where you've seen this cadaver before / this swan song's sung on a watery grave / blow your brains out, baby!"

Foetus isn't for everybody, much as I want to believe he is; very few of the dozens of people I've played him for have picked up the ball and run with it. Let's just say this: if you are looking for an artist truly out of the ordinary, truly weird, ridiculously talented, and with many, many axes to grind - then Foetus is your man, and this is your next album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the penultimate, but damn good., November 5, 2004

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Bighairydoofus "-" (Brooklyn Park, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hole (Audio CD)

If you're easily offended, well, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU.

"Satan Place" is a song about a man going to hell set to surf music...

Compare this with music made by poseurs like Marilyn Hanson, ten years later. They made music without one iota of the inspiration or passion (or dare I say it... HUMOR) that exists here. This is the real deal. Circa '89 you got an extra disc when you bought this album on vinyl, seek it out if you care...

This was provacative madness via mid 80's agitpop... Mr. Thirlwell's opus "Nail" is better, but not by much. Awesome cutting edge music not for the faint of heart.

I'll see you in Poland, baby.