Krackhouse-The Whole Truth (1987)
Artist: Krackhouse
Title: The Whole Truth
Year of Release: 1987
Country and Year of Edition: US 1987
Sell Price: $4.82
Sell Date: 2/8/25
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 5/24/24 NM/NM $6.00
Low: $1.25
Median: $5.90
Average: $6.90
High: $19.99
Current low price: $2.08
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 20
Have/Want: 163/68
Where Sold: Pomona, CA
Time It Took To Sell: 9 years
Where and When Bought: new from band circa 1988 at Worcester Artists Group gig
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-
Sad To See It Go: No
Worcester Artists Group loft space was a godsend when I was living there. They brought in bands from out of town that HAD RECORDS OUT. That was such a big deal! I always viewed (and still do) the hierarchy as internationally distributed touring bands, regional bands with physical releases, local bands with releases and local bands with tapes. Nowadays it's bands with a physical release in more than one format, bands on vinyl, bands with a bandcamp and everybody else.
So anyway, Krackhouse came up from NYC to Worcester and did their updated Beefheart-inspired poetry weirdness that motivated me to buy the LP for my radio show. Shimmy Disc had yet to distribute their records, at least to WICN in Worcester until around 1989 when they stepped it up. Before that you had to buy even their big sellers like Bongwater and B.A.L.L if you wanted to play them on the radio. Or at least I did.
Vocalist Mike Sappol has a discography that starts, at least on Discogs, in 1981 when the Avant Squares contributed a track to the Noise-Fest cassette. He was also in a group called Bump that released a single in 1985 called "Secret Agent Orange." Guitarist Chris Cochrane is still active, having done some tracks last year with Lauren Connors. Other guitarist Ruth Peyser was also in Bump and last was seen on the Cunieform improv group Curlew. Drummer Rick Adler was last seen in the early 90's band Ten Inch Men. Kramer produced, recorded and released this.
The only cut I remember in this half hour of 1-2 minute poetic bursts is "Burger King Town." As in "this is a Burger King town," a omnipresent catchphrase Madison Avenue gave the world in the 80's. In this town the mother is a junkie and the sister is a whore. Rambo is in a sideshow. "Kill-joy" wraps side one with a very Residents sounding instrumental. "Dream Wingo Life" also has a Residents vocal feel. I like this album better than I graded it, but hearing it once every 38 years seems about right.
Hope I make it to 92 for the next listening.
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