Death Piggy
Love War
7" EP
(D.S.I. Records, 1984)
Holy crap! A POST! Alert the press! Slaughter the fatted calf! Drink some hot benzine!
OK, maybe don't hurt the poor, baby cow. I'm a vegetarian, after all.
So, I've not been posting for a number of reasons, all excellent. One of them is I've wanted to implement HTML5 Audio, for browsers that can use it, especially those that can't use Flash, like my newest phone (an otherwise kickass Motorola Atrix HD).
I wanted the HTML5 Audio stuff to be fancy-ish, and emulate the colors and whatnot of the rest of my blog, but I've just not had the time to sit down and learn Javascript well enough to do all that gunk . . . yet. Never say never, but, please, don't suggest that we sleep together.
Anyhow, I finally decided today, To heck with it, I'm tired of putting off posting, so here's a new (old) song!
Many, many years ago, my old punk band opened for Death Piggy in our hometown of Charlottesville, VA. We ended up becoming friendly with Death Piggy, who were from the distant environs of Richmond, VA, a full hour's drive away, and played a buncha shows together over the next few years.
Death Piggy released three kick butt little 7" EP records full of dadaist, chaotic punk rock before morphing into the band today known as GWAR, whose name may ring a bell. GWAR are great fun live, but I prefer the musical output of the original band. They followed their debut EP, and source of today's song, Love War, with Death Rides the Fairway . . ., then, finally, R
45.
Those three records were all fairly limited press runs and went out of print rather quickly. A CD was released in 1999, SMILE or DIE !!!, with the entire contents of the three records, but it, too, was limited, and it's long gone, as well.
NOTA BENE: Death Piggy also had an exclusive song, Fear of Murder,
on the Mutopia cassette compilation released by D.S.I. Records. I almost included it instead of Mangoes and Goats,
but the sound is super muddy and it's just not as good a song. Still, completists be aware! Or should that be beware?
1 biased opinion:
Weird! Quite a bit of the song sound familiar to me from my days of watching video games the boys played. For the life of me I cant recall which game it was now, but the person who wrote the music must have liked Death Piggy, because the Piggy song came out first.
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