Stinkfist (EP)

Stinkfist is a collaborative EP from Clint Ruin (aka J. G. Thirlwell) and Lydia Lunch. This outing from the ex-Immaculate Consumptive bandmates was originally released as a 12" in 1987 on Lunch's Widowspeak label. A 1989 CD version added "The Crumb", a single by Lunch and Sonic Youth leader Thurston Moore.

Stinkfist's cover shows Lunch and Ruin—lovers at the time—in a coital embrace. Sleeve Design Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch - Photographs by Wim van de Hulst - Lettering by Robert Williams

Track listing

All songs by Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin, unless noted.

1. "Stinkfist" – 6:57
2. "Meltdown Oratorio" – 8:55
   • Part One: The Reckoning
   • Part Two: The Crack
   • Part Three: The Meltdown
3. "Son Of Stink" – 3:47
4. "The Crumb" (Lunch / Thurston Moore / Ruin) – 5:39 CD only

Personnel and Production

"Stinkfist" and "Son of Stink":

• Cliff Martinez – drums & metal
• DJ Bonebrake – Drums & metal
• Neil – Drums & metal
• Spit Stix – Drums & metal
• Tom Surgal – Metal
• Roli Mosimann – Timbales, engineering
• Lydia Lunch – Voices & metal
• Clint Ruin – Voices & metal
• Randy Burns – Engineering
• Hahn Rowe – Engineering

"Meltdown Oratorio":

• Lydia Lunch – Voices
• Clint Ruin – Instruments
• Martin Bisi – Engineering

"The Crumb":

• Thurston Moore – guitars, voice
• Lydia Lunch – Voice
• Clint Ruin – Loops, treatments, production
• Bass/drums - "grafted and transplanted from eternity." Bass and drums are reworked from Lydia Lunch's "Dead in the Head" on her Honeymoon in Red album. Though uncredited, the original performance is by Ruin.
• Martin Bisi – Engineering

External links

• Stinkfist at foetus.org