A.C. Classic or dud?

Ah yes, the immortal An_l C__t. Lovely boys. Although, if I'm not completely mistaken, the equally offensive duo (although slightly mor regressive) the Happy Flowers came first (comprised of "Mr.Anus" and "Mr.Horribly Charred Infant"). Same species of garden variety gross-out offense-o-rock. Good for laughs, but precious little else.

Alex, holy crap! Someone else who remembers Happy Flowers! Remember "Mom, I gave the cat some acid"? Didn't they also sing "I want an unhappy meal"? Are you saying it was the same 2 guys? I don't think that's what you're saying, since I'm pretty sure it's not. I'll agree. They're duds. It is humorous how many song titles can include the word "gay", though.

Happy Flowers actually had some melodies, at least, and was good for a laugh. I remember hearing AC's cover of the Three's Company theme, and I'm surprised that they even bothered listing it as that: they could have called it something else and dispensed without having to pay royalties, for all it resembled the original. I know guys who love both of these bands (and I enjoyed Happy Flowers' My Skin Covers My Body for part of a summer, in the way that only teenagers can enjoy such utter filth), and they're actually scarier than the music itself.

I was going to start a thread about offensive cover art until I read this post. Someone got really angry at me for finding the cover art for the Unsane s/t and the Naked City s/t (both explicit photographs of brutal murders) amusing, in a way, because they're just so incredibly bizarre. I feel the same way about AC's song titles: how can you really get offended by a band with songs called "I hope you get deported" and "You're Old(Fuck You)"? I mean, obviously, things like deportation cause real pain and suffering to real people, much the same as those dead people on the album covers suffered, but it's pretty clear that AC are deliberately trying to be ridiculous and surreal. Taken out of the context of the band, the song "Van Full Of Retards" would be one of the most offensive things I ever heard. But AC just tend to say offensive things that nobody really *would* say. On the other hand, when they write songs like "Eazy E got aids from Freddie Mercury" it sounds exactly like something a homophobe really would say, and I find that offensive. I don't know, I'm really on the fence about this sort of thing.

Classic for the song titles ("Your Band's in the Cut-out Bin" being a favourite; and how apt). Dud for the music (there's music?). In fact, I'd advise they bypass recording altogether and just release lists of song titles.

A.C. play(ed? are they still around) music (however poorly and devoid of finesse), whereas the Happy Flowers just seemed to make noise and shout over the top of it. Still, the kiddie-centric song title of the `Flowers -- "Razors in My Apple," "Mom & Dad Like the Baby More than Me", "The Vaccum Ate Timmy," "Mister Fuck," and my absolute favorite, "If This Gun Were Real (I Could Shoot You And Sleep In The Big Bed WIth Mommy)" -- win over A.C.'s remedial drivel any day of the week.

classic for the song title "Morrisey Kicked your Ass." I saw the Happy Flowers open for Yo La Tengo (?), supported by James McNew on drums. I didn't know that they were some huge cult band from around my area before I saw them, and I'm amazed that some of you people have heard of them. The highlight of the show was Mr. Anus playing a casio keyboard with his butt.

Yes yes, AC and all that, and I like the Happy Flowers.

BUT!

The Raunchy Young Lepers. It's *ALL* about the Raunchy Young Lepers.

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Here you will find my take on their career. ;-)

Anal Cunt are the Beavis & Butthead of music, so classic.

Fave songtitles: You look divorced Face it, you're a metal band Your family is dumb Everyone in Anal Cunt is dumb You're dumb You're a trendy fucking pussy

Obviously you could never take a band like AC seriously nor want to listen to them for the length of a full album (or at all for that matter) but i still think they're ace.

Anal Cunt, even without the song titles, were at one time probably the best (only good? US noise is almost always terrible) noise band this country has ever produced.

Who were Lawn mower Deth? Honestly. Has anyone heard this stuff?

Lawnmower Deth were a comedy hardcore band that were kicking around at the tail end of the eighties. Kind of like Snuff, only worse.

Peel used to play the Happy Flowers a lot. They were about the only thing he ever did play which I found quite disturbing - the idea of music being made from the point-of-view of severely traumatized young children.

Having heard stories of the Bob The Builder Riots at the nursery Isabel works at, though, I wonder if they weren't, um, 'on the money'.

Oh, classic of course. But only if I'm having a good day. And I'm not always great in the morning...

Hey, dave q., you ever hear of these guys? Right up yer alley!

Swear to God, I was really thinking about starting a thread about Anal Cunt till by hap I found this thread. (Song title for the next Anal Cunt CD: "Pretentious References to Thomas Hardy While Talking about Us Are Gay"). If Andy Kaufmann was still alive and decided to form a noise-rock band, it would be a helluva lot like Anal Cunt. And that's the vein in which I think they should be taken.

Classic for "Guy Lombardo" alone (offa the Morbid Florist EP). And Anal Cunt prompted two classic lines from two friends: "Why in the bloody hell do I own every Anal Cunt CD?" and "Tad, you spent your money on this shit? " (the latter was from a death metal fan, yet!)