Songs About Fucking

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Songs About Fucking

Studio album by Big Black
Released	1987
Recorded	?
Genre	Noise Rock
Length	31:45
Label	Touch & Go
Producer(s)	Big Black
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Big Black chronology
The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape (1987)	Songs About Fucking (1987)	Pigpile (1992)

Songs About Fucking is the second and final album by the noise rock band Big Black. It is considered by many to be the band's best work. Included are covers of Kraftwerk's "The Model" and Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore".

Steve Albini has said that "Songs About Fucking" is the Big Black album that he is most satisfied with. In a 1992 interview with Maximumrocknroll magazine, Albini said: "The best was side one of 'Songs About Fucking'. I was real pleased with the way we did that. We just hopped into the studio, banged all the songs out and hopped out. Didn't take long, didn't cost much, just real smooth. Side two we recorded at a more leisurely pace and I think that hurt us. And that Cheap Trick song got on the tape and the CD by accident, and we just left it on."

[edit] Track listing

"The Power Of Independent Trucking" – 1:27
"The Model" – 2:34
"Bad Penny" – 2:33
"L Dopa" – 1:40
"Precious Things" – 2:20
"Colombian Necktie" – 2:14
"Kitty Empire" – 4:01
"Ergot" – 2:27
"Kasimir S. Pulaski Day" – 2:28
"Fish Fry" – 2:06
"Pavement Saw" – 2:12
"Tiny, King of the Jews" – 2:31
"Bombastic Intro" – 0:35
"He's a Whore" – 2:37*

*only available on CD reissue

[edit] Personnel

Dave Riley: Bass Guitar [david uses and endorses alembic basses and trace-elliot amplifiers]
Santiago Durango (Credited as Melvin Belli): Guitar [melvin follows and endorses the fibrelife meatloaf diet plan]
Steve Albini: Guitar, Vocals, Drum Programming [steve uses and endorses heroin]