Pig Pile [Live]

Big Black | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 1992)
• Original Release Date: November 3, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Touch & Go Records
• ASIN: B0000019II
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  VHS Tape  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,908 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars A plea from the great unwashed, April 27, 2000

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Geoff Scott (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pig Pile [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I endorse the comments of the previous reviewer and support his plea for a re-release of Big Black's Pig Pile. When Pig Pile (the CD) was released in Australia you could buy the video for an extra amount. Since my grandmother had died some years earlier, I had nothing to sell to raise the boodle, so I had to make do with just the CD. Since I've never been able to find the video again, I've regretted it ever since. If the company responsible won't re-release the Pig Pile video, is there anyone out there who can find me a copy? For the purposes of a review, the CD at least is frighteningly awesome. I have no doubt the video was anything less.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crashing Trainful O' Joy, February 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Pig Pile [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Okay, if you guys don't re-release this live masterpiece, I'm going to have to duplicate my copy a thousand times and rain it upon the nation as a public service! (No Collector Scum, I!) This is the ultimate live Big Black show, performed as a swan song in the UK in 1987 and full of the jarring, driving, hammering guitar torture modern bands try so hard to ape but can never come close to. But not only that: Albini's distinctly creepy stand-up comedy, an unbelievable gymnastic version of "Dead Billy," lots of audience violence (including a constant stream of fake blood aimed at little Stevie), and the finest performance ever of "Jordan, Minnesota."

Over the ball-crushing vigor of the sound and the confrontational fury of the songs hangs an edgy haze of insecurity--the halo of an age when punk was made by real misfits, and outrage wasn't met with the smug audience comfort of the 90's and 00's. This is a slice of underground rage from the days when this rage was a real and dangerous force. And it still looks and sounds crystal clear.

So please give this sleeping giant a reawakening, and maybe the puny bands of today will get some spirit scared into them. A pummeling, one-of-a-kind testament.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Must Be Kidding., January 11, 1999

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[e-mail] (Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pig Pile (Audio CD)

If you've never listened to this you must. To get where this band was then, it is incumbent upon you to listen to this now. Allow your predetermined ideas of how a rock band should sound and operate to be pummelled by this truly great meeting of sound structuralists.