"Get the Horn"Gluecifer |
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As addicting as the glue-sniffing exploits they named themselves after, this band out of Oslo, Norway rocks to the limit and far beyond any of what my dulled senses ever suggested anyone could anymore. First The Deadbeats and now this! "Get the Horn" is a six song scorcher scraped off their last two recordings for Sweden's White Jazz label-a not so pleasantly garnished plate sent flying straight onto your lap! For those of us who still recall the days when rock got down, dirty, sweaty and obnoxious, "Get the Horn" and just try to avoid throwing a full hip-check hard into the unwitting passenger sitting next to you. That's right you won't, so get used to an alternative means for your morning commute or maybe start thinking about therapeutic relaxation techniques in order to settle you down-and mind you these are only six songs! After "getting the horn" and pricking every poor bastard within reach, try "The Year of Manly Living" and "Go Away Man", two unsettling proclamations that'll result in tempers flaring from every direction! There's a retro-vibe to these songs, generally understood when a "real" rock approach from a "tired" scene is sought and Gluecifer here has made the most of sucking up those noxious fumes first lit by yesterday's underground heroes-"Get the Horn" is an earful of noise pollution, the best kind that's the usual result of nastiness and disgust. Think MC5, The Stooges and early Aerosmith-raw, aggressive, thoughtless and funny! If there was a way to package crude behavior and instrumental mutilation all in one fiery blues-crashing groove-rock pit-stained package that gives the majority a whole new reason to bitch about rock and roll, nothing comes closer than "Get the Horn"! Get it? Released by Sub Pop Review by Vinnie Apicella |
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Head to Head Boredom Gluecifer |
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Let's face it, if you're gonna refer to yourselves as the "Kings of Rock" you better damned well deliver. And trust me, after getting an earful of this, I think you'll all agree these guys are the shit! Where "Head to Head Boredom" came from I have no idea but the stuff is anything but boring! Not to imply they had any such thoughts for their own music anyway, but I'll say this for 'em, they're light-hearted on image and heavy handed on playing. Out of Norway, not what we've come to know as the hotbed for rock and roll talent these days, they must have worn out their welcome right from the word "go." "Go" maybe as in "away." Comprised of five loose-fitting character actors / nuts that go by titles as "Captain Poon," "Biff Malibu" and "Jon Average" for starters-and what's with this guy Danny Young? Come on man, let's get into the role here! "Head to Head Boredom" is a pure rock onslaught, made up of key selections from their first single back in '95, "God's Chosen Dealer" and later this mini-album, and get this, "Dick Disguised as Pussy!" How great is that? The last three cuts were pulled from some live shows. How much of an influence did the likes of The Stooges and the whole Motor City rumble have on these guys? It's a pure '70s rock explosion that pits the devil's gang against the angelic in a balls out race for rock and roll supremacy! We won't bother to assimilate just where Gluecifer's allegiance may lie but after the first broken sweat, it's not hard to figure where you're going here. You got tunes based around drinking, chicks-"Play hard rock and get laid!"-And just out and out lunacy! Pick a vice… any vice! Just imagine the kind of reaction tunes like 'Dogburner," "Phonebooth Creep" and "Suck City" are gonna get from anyone with even an ounce of intelligence! But fuck it, it's rock and roll! Or "Rock and Roll Asshole" once we reach track twelve! Reading the lyrics are half the fun but my hands are still shaking trying to absorb all this so it's better left to the imagination anyway! An absolute trip through insanity and back with Lucifer himself behind the wheel, Gluecifer does things that even today might still cause a stir within the row of common human decency. When you think you've seen and heard it all, "Head to Head Boredom" proves none of us know shit. Brilliantly disgusting and childish, they're the next door neighbor you're always looking over your shoulder at and casting a suspicious eye wondering how much they can really be trusted! released by Devil Doll Records Review By Vinnie Apicella |
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Gluecifer |
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First off let me point out this is a great pull out they came up with opposite the lyric sheet-real clever. Without going into great detail, the band apparently saw fit to share a private moment… or two with their fans. Gluecifer… they got the horns, gave 'em and took 'em back again for what amounts to their best release yet, "Tender is the Savage." Only, don't expect to find a whole lot of tenderness going on within this one-"I Got a War," "Chewin' Fingers," Drunk & Pompous…" yeah, about as tender as a prime cut of meat about to be thrown to the lions! About a year and a half, maybe two years ago, I didn't have a clue about these guys-I mean, what the Hell is a "Gluecifer?" Now a couple of raunchy, twisted and wicked albums later, I can't hear enough! Absolutely one of the finest examples of pure bred indigestible disgust put to rock and roll, this Norwegian fivesome rocks with the best you've ever heard, and once they get they're hooks in you, it's over-stick a fork in the competition, which as of this moment is as hot and heavy as ever, but these guys manage to stay one drink ahead in every facet. Songs bordering on the edge of senseless, gratuitously nasty and juvenile at their most mature moments… It seems when rock and roll was ready to rear its ugly head again, Norway's answer to Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey were ready to rip off the masks… "Tender is the Savage" tears open the tent to expose these daredevils at their riff-ravaged, fun loving and tasteless best! Having hooked up with well known producer on the NY scene Daniel Rey, the sound's raw yet refined with consideration of Gluecifer's even more uproarious past-if that's possible. Maybe I'm too sober as I'm listening to this, I mean how can you possibly be this objective? All I know is they are to the burgeoning Scandinavian rock scene what Monster Magnet was to ours a few years back with "Powertrippin'" and they will absolutely have the same effect on you with this high-spirited, low tolerance brand of Stooges revisited rock and roll excess! Sub Pop Records 2514 Fourth Ave Seattle, WA, 98121 http://www.subpop.com/510_index.html Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu]
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