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Pussy Galore |
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The Peel Sessions (BOOK, UK)
COVER ONLY |
2007.11.04 |
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Goodbye 20th Century: Sonic Youth... (BOOK, UK/US)
COVER ONLY |
2007.09.00
2008.05.00
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Record Collector: Pussy Galore (PRESS, UK)
EXTENSIVE ARTICLE (TEXT) "In the post-Nirvana era, it's hard to imagine the
revolutionary nature of bands like Pussy Galore, but at the time American audiences
(and later English ones, too) were wooed by Spencer's new take on blues and rock,
and more importantly were blown away by the pure eneergy and ferociousness of the
band when they performed live." |
2000.04.00 |
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Mute Press Release: Biog From August 1987 (PRESS, UK)
TWO PAGE PRESS RELEASE (TEXT): "Pussy Galore formed in
Washington DC in September '85. Jon Spencer (vocals and guitar), is the primary
songwriter and claims as his musical influences, 60's garage bands and industrial
music. Julia Cafritz (guitar and vocals) is originally from DC and met Jon at university
which they both ultimately left to pursue fame and fortune."
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1998.03.00 |
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Mute Press Release: Dial 'M' For Motherfucker (PRESS,
UK)
ONE PAGE PRESS RELEASE (TEXT): "Why Dial 'M' for Motherfucker?
What's up with this new "high-tech, can-do", accessible Pussy Galore? Accessible
my ass! This is one of the hardest records ever made! People have listened to it
and gone blind! This is the record that broke up the band!"
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1998.03.00 |
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Mute Press Release: Re-Issues (PRESS, UK)
ONE PAGE PRESS RELEASE (TEXT): "The fact that the band consisted
of future members of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Boss Hog, Royal Trux and Free
Kitten amongst others, shouldn't matter to you unless you are obsessing over that
stuff. We don't encourage such behaviour, thank you very much."
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1998.03.00 |
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BB Gun: Pussy Galore '86 [Article] (PRESS, US)
TEXT: Very short article with some rare photos. |
1995.00.00 |
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Fiz [#5]: All Roads Lead To Spencer: A Historic Look At The... [3400 Words] (PRESS, US)
TEXT: "Fiz: Is it true that one of the reasons you
guys decided to leave Washington DC was because of the Ian MacKaye song? Jon: No,
we left DC for other reasons. I mean we were having trouble with the band in DC.
"
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1993.03.00 |
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COVER ONLY - LINKS TO ARTICLE | 1990.05.00 |
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NME: Paw Boys [1600 Word Article] (PRESS, UK)
ARTICLE/INTERVIEW (TEXT): "They're New York City's
most mean and ,lowdown dirty grunge rockers and everything they do has to be bigger,
bolder and more gut-wrenching than all that's gone before. Forget about lineat progression
- leave that to lesser gods like Live Skull, Lunachicks et al - these cartoon nihilits
give new meaning to the term haphazard, positively drippig with sexual frenzy and
asshole imagery." |
1989.06.17 |
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NME: Shag Frenzy [Dial 'M'... Review] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "What's most impressive however
is 'Dial M's' lack of any genuine feeling. One can draw comparisons with Kraftwek
in its allegiance to mechanised emotion: synthesised ghosts without the aid of keyboards.
Everyone's always talking about passion and commitment in rock (and this is resolutely
rock, even if unhinged) but PG just erase all that guff..." |
1989.05.13 |
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Record Mirror: Dial M ['Dial 'M'... Review] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Dischordant chords, fuzzy guitars, industrial
beats on bits of metal, groans, miscellaneous loud noises and growly, gruff vocals;
the singer scounding like a man with his guitar stuck in his mouth and, understandably,
rather annoyed about it." |
1989.05.13 |
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Party Line [Dial 'M'... Review] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "CACOPHONOUS. Look, I realise
this will come as no suprise or problem to anyone who has stumbled across Pussy
Galore's subsonic primal thurst, but that's what it is. Cacophonus. From the anguished
bored-rich-kids yowling in the playground..." |
1989.05.00 |
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Pulsebeat: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): The band, that industrialists and pig fuckers
can agree on, and trash vampires and feedback fiends and lowlife scum and Metal
studs and puncks and druncks and Spoonie Gee fans. |
1989.04.00 |
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NME: Mean Fiddler review (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "FORGET THE convor-belt mentality and
face up to the facts: using the latest fancy gadgets and acoutrements doesn't automatically
make you contemporary or a late '80s innovator. It's a question of attitudes and
your relationship with the past." |
1988.12.03 |
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Sounds: Mean Fiddler review (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "Chief garage mechanic, Jon Spencer,
is still wearing the flesh-coloured lame shirt featured on the album cover that
should long-since have been banished to the laundrette. He and sulky Juicy Cafritz
scream and swear like animated graffiti and, with only Bob Bert's petrol tank rattling
to offset the guitars..." |
1988.12.03 |
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NME: Chart (PRESS, UK)
[Photocopy of Chart] |
1988.12.03 |
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Melody Maker: Chart (PRESS, UK)
[Photocopy of Chart] |
1988.12.03 |
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Observer: John Peel Purrs Over The Scratch and Bit of
Pussy Galore (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Pussy Galore played a vicious street
brawl of a set, leaving the impression that the band pursue a musical scorched-earth
policy in the hope that the traditions on which they base their impressive music
can never be used again." |
1988.11.27 |
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Sounds: Six Ways To Skin A Cat [FEATURE/INTERVIEW] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Pussy Galore recently returned from
a triumphant outing to Japan, a minor miracle of an achievement for the avowed noise
terrorists. Getting your boney rock ass into Japan is a tricky business and Pussy
Galore are the first of the current US loft noise brigade to sling their guitars
around in the land of the rising yen." |
1988.11.26 |
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Splayed Alive [Live review of Mean Fiddler show] (PRESS,
UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Jon's guttural vocals, mixed six times
under the PA system, have a perfect counterfoil in the other two guitarists and
Julia's traumatic presence. And, just when you think its all too much, in comes
Julia with a thrusting microphone welter, Jon throws his guitar off, and we start
all over again." |
1988.11.00 |
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Sounds: One lump or two? [Sugarshit Sharp Review] (PRESS,
UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Drums stampede in all directions; guitars
fuzz Cramps-style and are castrated mercilessly and the vocals sound like they've
been dragged backwards through a loudhailer. And yet, Pussy Galore are steeped in
rock 'n' roll tradition; they have just chosen to disfigure their heritage. " |
1988.11.19 |
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Melody Maker: Insanity Claws [1700 WORD ARTICLE] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "Pussy Galore are undeniably and unenviably
individual at present, not art enough to be considered alongside Sonic Youth, no
dumb enough to be deemed metal and too trad to be elevated alongside The Young Gods,
they remind me of The Birthday Party when they first started out - there's the same
monochrome dimension, but they lack the melodrama..." |
1988.11.12 |
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Sugarshit Sharp Review (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT) "DIG THIS garage trash groove. Pussy
Galore have been rummaging around the dustbins of all their idols: New York Dolls.
Scientists, 'Sister Ray', and more musty unreleased basement tapes than I'd like
to contemplate. The result is 'Sugarshit Sharp', an abominable conglomeration of
gutter level references and second-hand scumball styling. This, I want you to know,
is a Good Thing" |
1988.11.00 |
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Buttrag: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Although Pussy Galore aren't a novelty
anymore (i.e. they've been famous for more than a year), they still need to be heralded
for being the only real rock-n-roll band kicking today." |
1988.11.00 |
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Forced Exposure: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "After the stench and blood had been rinsed
w/Southern Comfort, Pussy Galore found themselves born and immediately started crawling
toward NYC. Let Freedom ring." |
1988.11.00 |
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Melody Maker: Sugarshit Sharp (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (SCAN). "Pussy Galore are a critics' band. In a
very specific sense: I've always thought of them as a kind of Lester Bangs..." |
1988.11.05 |
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Melody Maker: News (PRESS, UK)
VERY SHORT NEWS ITEM ABOUT TOUR DATES (SCAN):
Pussy Galore are in Britain for a series of dates to follow the release of a new
mini-album "Sugarshit Sharp" |
1988.10.29 |
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Daily News (ARTICLE, US)
VERY SHORT NEWS ITEM ABOUT ARTWORK (SCAN): "With its blaring,
non-rhythmic barrage of noise, the lower East Site band Pussy Galore has offended
plenty of folks. But now it has had to hold up the release of the six-song EP "Sugarshit
Sharp"..." |
1988.10.17 |
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New York Times (PRESS, US)
ARTICLE ON A FESTIVAL FEATURING A MENTION OF PUSSY GALORE
(LARGE SCAN)
"The Galore group, which will be performing tomorrow at Big Kahuna, has been playing
together for three years and is one of the New York Scene's main attractions. It's
latest album, "Right Now"" |
1988.09.00 |
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Artforum: Speaker to Speaker (ARTICLE, US)
ARTICLE (SCAN): "What do you do?! a 60ish businessman asked
me 'I'm a rock critic," I said "My son's in a punk band." he said, throwing his
arms wide: "'Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck'" And that's what Pussy Galore say. By now
such spew ought to be a..." |
1988.00.00 |
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London Student: Mean Fiddler (PRESS, UK)
LIVE REVIEW (TEXT):"Even harsher and more grating live
than on vinyl, a host of two-minute guitar blasts fly out from the stage like sheet
metal, as dangerous and essential as any of their influences."
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1988.01.23 |
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NME (PRESS, UK)
ARTICLE (LARGE SCAN): "Last night we were onstage, and
it was like people were screaming and stuff, thrashing around - I don't know, it's
like my initial reaction is that a gut-level indifference kicks in. Just like we're
trying to act blase or something." |
1988.01.30 |
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Cashbox: Talent on Stage (PRESS, US)
LIVE REVIEW (SCAN): "Both the Gibson Bros. and Pussy
Galore play brutish, plug-ugly, and pathetically ploddy grunge-noise as offensive
celebration, or celebration of the offensive." |
1988.01.30 |
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City Paper: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "NYC's Pussy Galore does just that, with
fanged frontman Jon Spencer chainsawing 19 no-tech, brain damaging stompes which
plumb Cro-Magnonman's primal urges"
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1988.01.29 |
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Sounds (PRESS, UK)
ARTICLE ON PUSSY GALORE (LARGE SCAN): "On my way
to interview Pussy Galore I'm listening to their inimitable version of 'Exile On
Main Street' (yup, the whole of it) on my Walkman. As it all begins to get a bit
too hairy I remove the headphones. It's then I notice a little trickle of pus dribbling
out of my right ear..." |
1988.01.23 |
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NME: Mean Fiddler (PRESS, UK)
LIVE REVIEW (LARGE SCAN):"Groovy News: Last summer I called
up this American guy, deaf in his left ear, and asked "What's goin' on?" He said
"Pussy Galore". |
1988.01.23 |
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NME: News/Gossip Mention (PRESS, UK)
VERY SHORT MENTION ON THE NME NEWS/GOSSIP PAGE (TEXT):
"Pussy Galore were delighted to be canned off by an otherwise ecstatic crowd at
London's Mean Fiddler venue last week, for only playing a 15 second encore.".
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1988.01.23 |
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Melody Maker: Mean Fiddler, Harlesden... (PRESS, UK)
LIVE REVIEW (LARGE SCAN): "Pussy Galore are a mutation
of R&B (their customary metal percussive device is, in fact, borrowed from The
Mutoid Waste Company)." |
1988.01.23 |
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Village View: Locked In The Garage (PRESS, US)
PROFILE OF PUSSY GALORE (LARGE SCAN): "Take Pussy Galore,
for instance. Critic Greil Marcus raved about them last summer in no less a publication
than Artform, hailing them as "an attack on self-criticism with the crudest tools." |
1988.01.22 |
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City Limits (PRESS, UK)
SHORT MENTION (TEXT): "'You Look Like A Jew' is a pretty
average example of the wit and wisdom of Washington DC Thrash band Pussy Galore.
In the twiglet zone between art and the arsehole, PG are the polite(r) younger cousins
of GG Allin."
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1987.12.29 |
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Voice: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
RIGHT NOW! REVIEW (SCAN): "And they say young people have
no ideals. I mean, all these postdadaists want is to provide the forbidden visceral
thrill of rock and roll at the moment they snatch it away as an impossible fake..."
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1987.12.29 |
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Observer: Releases [Right Now! Review] (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW; VERY BRIEF MENTION (TEXT): "Fellow New Yorkers
Pussy Galore deliver a comprehensive collage of the last 20 years of garage music
in 20 'Uptight' fragments that take pleasure and power from railing at the mainstream.
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1987.11.08 |
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Mapp: F*ck Groovy Hate (PRESS, US)
ARTICLE (SCAN): "I was trying to draw a bead on how I felt
about these records from Pussy Galore and Big Black when i came upon the following
quote from the late rock critic Lester Bangs..." |
1987.11.00 |
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The Rocket: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): In the early '60s, parents were confronted
with the challenge: Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone? The Beatles,
of course, were the good boys and the Stones were the bad bays. |
1987.11.00 |
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Conflict #46: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Some records just batter you from cut to
cut to the point where you can't begin to imagine how any of the songs..."
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1987.11.00 |
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Phfudd!: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Most people who don't know better seem
to dismiss PG and all those NYC hard-gunch groups"
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1987.11.00 |
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Sunday NY Times: Rock: Sonic Youth At Cat Club (PRESS, US)
BRIEF MENTION IN LIVE REVIEW (SCAN) Pussy Galore uses three
guitars, each contributing a different range of textures and a distinctive rhythm
attack, along with Bob Bert's unusual drumming, which combines trashcan sounds with
swing and precision.
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1987.10.25 |
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Village Voice: Rip This Joint (PRESS, US)
ARTICLE (SCAN): "Now Pussy Galore, you could make a case
that they're one more bunch of psychedelic/'60s college kids cashing in on cheese
from the past; name comes from Goldfinger..." |
1987.10.08 |
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Public News: Shredding Myths (PRESS, US)
INTERVIEW (SCAN): "Pussy Galore has become one of the more
important bands to emerge from the new head-slamming school of American guitar/noise
bands. Punk is dead, and bands like Sonic Youth, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, and
Pussy Galore reaffirm our faith in the shear power and strength of rock music with
their dissimilar but equally assaulting sounds." |
1987.10.07 |
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Catalogue: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Recording techniques certainly
aren't the most valuable ways of passing on ambient information but I would have
liked to witnness the session when Right Now was recorded somewhere in New York [sic]" |
1987.10.00 |
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Disaster: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): This LP is like taking your radio to a planet
with only cool radio stations and setting it on auto-scan. The songs are short to
match your attention span.
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1987.10.00 |
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Abacus: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Everything on acid from A to Z. They give
the impression of a chainsaw rubbing over the Cramps and the Stooges." |
1987.10.00 |
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Hyper-Tension: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Altho certain people still have a vocabulary
that starts w/Snc Yth and ends w/Lv Skll when it comes to this band, I say they
are NOT the latest purveyors of Lower E. Side noise tradition..." |
1987.10.00 |
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Dangerous Rhythms: Right... (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (SCAN): The immediacy of the title certainly goes
hand in hand with the urgency of the tunes here, and also how soon you should persue
this if you haven't done so already" |
1987.10.00 |
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Melody Maker: Thrash Thrash [Interview] (PRESS, UK)
INTERVIEW (TEXT): "Pussy Galore on the other hand
are bleary. Headlong. The animal product of low ceilings." |
1987.10.31 |
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NME: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "Pussy Galore are the perfect
blueprint for tomorrow's ugly world. Their attitude stinks and I love them for it.
Chances are you will too." |
1987.09.26 |
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Melody Maker: Right Now! Review (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "a thrash, but by no means a monotone. It's
a compendiu, of junk scratches, with every rusty tool in the garage brought into
play. They sound prostate, woozy, about to screw up or slam their instruments and
stalk off and die" |
1987.09.26 |
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Underground: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
SHORT REVIEW: (TEXT): "Right Now! is a thunderous guitar
battle, like thrash played by drunks and acid heads. You'll hate it, or you'll "get
high", as they say, too. Wacks." |
1987.09.00 |
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Independent LPs [CHART] (PRESS, UK)
CHART (SCAN): Showing Right Now! at number 10 |
1987.09.00 |
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Hot Metal: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
RIGHT NOW! REVIEW (TEXT): "These scabby wretches from NYC
(via DC) aim straight at your large intestine..." |
1987.09.00 |
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NME: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (SCAN)"From beyond the valley of the New York Dolls
slink Pussy Galore, a band so GREBO that you'll want to swallow them down in one
big ball of fur... be careful of the claws that catch, one might snag in your throat
and make you gag." |
1987.09.26 |
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Rockpool: Right Now! (PRESS, US)
REVIEW (TEXT/SCAN): This Pussy Galore isn't the femme fatale James Bond met; if it had been, Bond would still be recovering. Pussy Galore, Right Now! is an aural onslaught that leaves you exhausted by happy.
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1987.09.25 |
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Melody Maker: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (SCAN): "Right Now!" is a thrash, but by no means
a monotone. It's a compendium of junk scratches, with every rusty tool in the garage
brought into play. They sound prostrate, woozy, about to screw up or slam their
instruments and stalk off and die..." |
1987.09.19 |
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Sounds: Right Now! (PRESS, UK)
REVIEW (TEXT): "So just how deep is the Big Apple’s scuzz
pit and how much longer will it be before we finally hit the nauseous residue that
lies at the bedrock of post-no wave, post-reality NYC? Or have we already reached
it with Pussy Galore, the gnarliest..." |
1987.09.19 |
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Reflex: Pussy Galore (PRESS, UK)
RIGHT NOW! REVIEW (TEXT): "In the two years of Pussy
Galore's existence, I've been hurled through a frightening deja-vu history lesson.
Unlike any I've had in school, this was the origin and evolution of the twisted
side of Rock 'n' Roll. I don't mean to say that Pussy Galore has shed any light
on the old, typically banal arguments of who did what first."
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1987.08.00 |
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Voice: Kitty Litter (PRESS, UK)
ARTICLE ABOUT CANCELLED SHOW (SCAN/TEXT) The band that’s
tried harder than George Michael to get censored finally has, Pussy Galore is banned
from Hoboken – for a show, at least – since postering around Maxwell’s last week."
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1987.08.01 |
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Conflict #42: Open Wide (PRESS, US)
TEXT: "Yeah, the whole second wave of Dischord bands completely fizzled. Rites Of Spring broke up, Dag Nasty were broken up for a while. Embrace broke up, Beefeater were split up. Last year you had that whole Revolution Summer thing but they never really carried it anywhere, it just fell on it's face. A real joke. So what's with you review of the single? It's like a review of Tom Smith! I mean, the whole thing's like "here's Tom Smith's record"." |
1986.08.00 |
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Flashy 60's Extremism (PRESS, US)
LIVE REVIEW (SCAN): "the group is firmly lodged in a high-speed,
imaginary version of British Invasion." |
198?.00.00 |
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It's All Over Now (PRESS, US)
ARTICLE (LARGE SCAN). " See that asssmoke rising. Hear
the funny belly burning. Genius needs your burning clientele." |
198?.00.00 |