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You should take every opportunity to scratch them, fingerprint them, and eat egg and bacon sandwiches off them.
Pezzati was replaced by Dave Riley, an audio engineer who worked closely with Parliament/ Funkadelic. It's also Albini at his most plainspoken and bleak: "Stare at the wall/Stare at each other and wait 'til we die. The label sent the promo 12" to radio stations, then sold extra copies outside of Big Black's native Chicago, hoping the band would never find out. My copy (bought new in '86) has white labels, plain white inner sleeve with a printed insert, so make of that what you will.Homestead Records also issued "Big Money" and "Il Duce" the A-side of a 12" record with three live songs on the B-side (including the live version of "Cables" that would appear on Atomizer) with the agreement that the 12" be used for promotional purposes only.
In addition to the ones mentioned below, the album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.By 1984, the band haddone some touring and recorded the ‘Racer X’ EP andthe start of the ‘Il Duce’ 7”. In the year after Atomizer's release, Big Black recorded their 4-song Headache EP and released it with a sticker that bore the words, "Warning! In 1985, Big Black recorded their first full-length, ‘Atomizer’, as well as finishing the ‘Il Duce’ 7”.
Instead, Steve Albini expressed his general dislike for the compact disc format in the CD's liner notes, saying, "This compact disc, compiled to exploit those of you gullible enough to own the bastardly first generation digital music system, contains all- analog masters. Steve's guitar is the distance between ice and hoarfrost, the lyrics archetypal of on the edge sociopath, or maybe just a frustrated disc-jockey. He played everything on the EP himself, except the sax bleating courtesy of pal John Bohnen and the drums courtesy of Roland.
The song "Kerosene" has been covered by Kerbdog (as a b-side to their single " End of Green" [22]), Pitchshifter (on the "enhanced" version of their album Deviant [23]), Lamb of God (on their album Legion: XX, under their original name Burn the Priest [24]) and St. Vincent (live at the Our Band Could Be Your Life 10th Anniversary Show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on May 22, 2011.