Red Bliss-Gateway To Joy (1991)

Artist: Red Bliss

Title: Gateway To Joy

Label: Axis

Format: CD

Catalog Number: AXS 012-2

Year of Release: 1991

Country and Year of Edition: US 1991

Sell Price: $4.63

Sell Date: 9/11/24

Condition: VG+/VG+ 

Discogs Last Sold  7/17/23 NM/M $8.00

Low: $4.63

Median: $6.04

Average: $6.43

High: $8.79

Current low price: $4.70

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 10

Have/Want: 16/10

Where Sold:  Portland, OR

Time It Took To Sell:  12 years

Where and When Bought: new 1991 Newbury Comics Boston

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

 "What do I need shit from you for?  I don't want your problems now.  Your clothes, they lie on his floor.  And you're being fucked RIGHT NOW!"-Carreiro, "Slute"

The opening track of the Boston noise rock masterpiece sets a bit of a template of love and hate.  It kicks off with a Jack Nicholson sample from Carnal Knowledge (4:05 in the clip).  "Is this an ultimatum?  Answer me you ball busting, castrating son of a cunt bitch is this an ultimatum or not?"   Leonard Cohen did this in a much more respectable fashion.  Guinea Bastards Carreiro and Rulli tag team their way into your heart with Rulli providing the love and Carreiro providing the hate.  It's a template that got them out of a basement in Framingham, MA and into a warehouse in Youngstown, OH full of inbred cats.

The album itself is all hits and a cut above their debut sound wise.  They worked with Tim O'Heir, the skilled Boston engineer at Fort Apache.  He is listed as producer and given the constructed chaos of this, it shows.  Have a meandering 10 minute noise jam?  Chop it in half and call it "Bad Sabbath" put half at the midpoint, half on the end.  "Slute" feedsback seamlessly into "Hate Me," two crushing jams of Carreiro fury before the lovelorn Rulli wails about the love he's found dressed in "Black" and ruminates over the paper doll in the "Doll House."  "How could you be my lover?" he inquires in Filmmaker.  Ah, youth.

Carreiro gets the quality lines out later in the record. "That changes everything/the cat changes everything" in the 5th track #9.  Then concludes in the same song "I can't do one damn thing/without someone saying 'wrong'."  The final statement before more "Bad Sabbath?"  We can load each others gun.

Couldn't make it if we tried.



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