Drunks With Guns-Headgiver (1992)

 


Artist: Drunks With Guns

Title: Headgiver

Label: Orphanage Records

Format: 7"

Cat #: ORP-015

Year of Release: 1992

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992, Blue Translucent

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 1/10/21

Sell Price: $4.99

Discogs Last Sold: 7/2/20 $4.00 VG+/VG+

Low: $2.98

Median: $4.47

High:  $8.21

Current low price: $7.23 NM/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3

Have/Want: 68/43

Where Sold:  Portland, OR

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: Newbury Comics Boston new '92 around $3.99

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C

Sad To See It Go: No

The divorce of Mike Doskocil and Stan Seitrich happened before the height of Drunks With Guns popularity in the punk underground.  Seitrich went on to international guitar acclaim with the Strangulated Beatoffs, whereas the voice of DWG continued as well.  At some point Stan had the name and used a 12 year old girl named Melissa to front the band while Doskocil did his band Bullets For Pussy.  Like most Drunks, they became even more complicated with Guns.

Noise rock had a fringe that was hardcore, Maximum Rock n Roll once emphatically approved.  The freedom, no- the absolute human right-  to tell each and every person to go fuck themselves without prejudice.    Beyond nihilism, Drunks With Guns were the embodiment of St. Louis misery co-sponsored by a friend from the Midwest, Old Mill. The no-redeeming-social-value wing of hardcore.  2 steps away from a garbage can, but possibly working enough to afford the said Old Mill case and maybe even pay rent at the shithouse unless they squat or rough it.

This record marks a bit of a decline.  Not in Doskocil's vocal which peel paint via throat, but the songs are kind of flat here.  The A-side, Headgiver, turns the interpolation of "Helter Skelter" into an ode to oral sex.  I don't know know if this was a dig at Seitrich, who did a Beatles White Album cover double single as The Beatoffs, I doubt either paid Lennon-McCartney for their liberal tribute.  The B-side closer "Cock Breeder" sounds like a bad Ministry outtake.  The B-side opener, "Tomorrow We Kill" is full of a pathological psychopaths hope for a better day tomorrow.  A day explicitly detailed in the outer groove.  The A-side states "Mommy and Daddy Never Understood."  The B-side inevitably concludes "So I Chopped Them Up Like Firewood."  

That about sums up the joyous sound, unto the lord,  they followed up with (a cover of "Superstar" from Jesus Christ Superstar).  Everything you could possibly dislike is recorded by this band for you to judge.

And judge you will.


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