The Thrown Ups-Melancholy Girlhole Box (1990)


Artist: The Thrown Ups

Title: Melancholy Girlhole Box

1: Person In My Bowel/Fleshy Web Pit b/w Sloppy Pud Love/Hot Lunch

2: Melancholy Girlhole/Stock Boy b/w Patty Has A Problem/Slick Lip/Thorp

3: Hairy Crater Man/Sparse Tits b/w My Love Is Simple/Our Ladies R Bitches

Label: Amphetamine Reptile

Format: 3x7"

Cat #: SCALE 26

Year of Release: 1990

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1990 Box Set Limited 1,000 copies

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 4/29/21

Sell Price: $6.99

Discogs Last Sold: 1/11/21 M/NM $6.94

Low: $5.00

Median: $7.27

Average: $7.35

High: $25.00

Current low price: $5.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 18

Have/Want: 259/76

Where Sold: Oberlin, OH

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: Boston Newbury Comics new around release

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

One of those "effort" conceptual releases.  You've got an unwieldly box that makes one procrastinate taking the records out, and you have to flip and change 6 sides to get through the half hour in one shot.  So I did it for the first time in neigh heigh 30 years before it went out the door.   The radio hits on this (for my show anyway) were "Thorp" and "My Love Is Simple."  For some reason I remember "Thorp" as "Thorp Thorp Thorp" and a quick Discogs scan made me realize that was the title on a Glitterhouse comp I had called Crunchouse.  The streaming page have some alternate titles: "Sloppy Pud Love" becomes "Sloppy Puppy Love" online, perhaps to appeal to modern sensibilities, or perhaps as an "in" joke.

On the noise rock scale where 0 is innocuous ribald comedy and 10 is extreme humorless perversion and/or grossout violence, the Thrown Ups are like a 2.  Maybe even a 1.  This single set the tone straight away with the opening A-side "Person In My Bowel."  That said, this is tongue in cheek all the way.  Nobody can take "Our Ladies R Bitches" or "Sparse Tits" as serious noise rock misogyny or complete social nihilism.  There are plenty of examples of that in the musical pantheon.  Context is important. This is more like a sad sack laying his "deep thoughts" on the line, no matter how raunchy or insignificant.

Harmless cartoon best in smaller doses.



 

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