Moby-That's When I Reach For My Revolver (Album Version) b/w Whip It (Death Metal Version) (1997)


 

Artist: Moby


Label: Sub Pop

Format: 7"

Cat:  SP 377

Year of Release: 1997

Country and Year of Edition: US 1996

Sell Price: $5.40

Sell Date: 1/13/24

Condition: VG+/VG

Discogs Last Sold  12/29/23 VG+ /VG $6.00

Low: $1.99 VG/VG+ 3/21/21

Median: $6.02

Average: $7.08

High: $16.47 NM/NM  6/22/23

Current low price: $6.75

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 7

Have/Want: 531/100

Where Sold: Virgiinia Beach, VA

Time It Took To Sell:  9 years

Where and When Bought: upon release, Kim's Underground St. Marks NYC, $3.99

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B

Sad To See It Go: No

This was a bit out of left field for electronic star Moby to issue a Sub Pop single of early 80's alt-rock standards.  The A-side, also included on his then forthcoming 1997 album Animals Rights album was a fairly straightforward version of Mission of Burma's That's When I Reach For My Revolver from the 1981 EP Signals, Calls and Marches.  This was their song that got commercial radio play in Boston, and it is such a standard that it seems strange for ANYBODY to do a cover of it, but Moby handles it just as well as about anyone could.

For the B-side, Moby takes on Devo doing a "Death Metal" version of "Whip It" from 1980's Freedom of Choice.  This was Devo's lone top 40 hit, so you could say the concept was to alter each (influential?) artist's biggest song.  I guess there were some slight "Death Metal" vocals, but this cover comes off more like Moby doing modern day Ministry doing Devo.  Kind of cool for a one-off and coming off the Nirvana years this is the type of release Sub Pop was known to do in conjunction with major label artists outside the  Pacific Northwest to make their album seem "cool" to people like me who previously ignored Moby as best as they could.  Grungified to the point of the artwork nicking Motörhead 's logo, umlauts included.    In hindsight, this approach served it's purpose and worked for me.   I still have Animal Rights and it's predecessor Everything Is Wrong on my CD shelf in storage, both bought after this.

It didn't however translate beyond a casual examination of his work.

ED NOTE: Oh yeah! I forgot I bought Play because it was a big critic record.



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