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Skoptzies — Wait Till The Drugs Kick In
C60
Skoptzies — Wait Till The Drugs Kick In
C60
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Side A
01. Gyrating Pelvis 02. Squeaky Clean 03. Don’t Eat The Fish 04. Teeth Like Nails 05. Pittsburgh vs. Denver 06. Flex Your Muscle - Live 07. Breakdown - Live |
Side B
08. Black Proud Funky & Loud/Me & Wolfgang 09. Machine Loves Woman 10. Headless Hillbilly 11. Feudin’ Time 12. Voodoo Samba (3rd version) |
C. Phinney - Keys, Synth, Vocals, Live Drum Programs, Drums on Hillbilly
D. Grave - Bass, Guitar on Clean, Hillbilly, and Time, Drum Programs
M. Thompson - Vocals on Hillbilly
C. Schmen - Bass on Hillbilly/Time
J. Mallory - Drums & Percussion on Live Cuts
R. Rice - Drums & Percussion - Live, Bass on Pelvis, Keys on Squeaky Clean & Machine, Voice on Machine, Drum Programs, Guitar on Fish, Teeth, Denver, Black & Wolfgang, Samba
D. Grave - Bass, Guitar on Clean, Hillbilly, and Time, Drum Programs
M. Thompson - Vocals on Hillbilly
C. Schmen - Bass on Hillbilly/Time
J. Mallory - Drums & Percussion on Live Cuts
R. Rice - Drums & Percussion - Live, Bass on Pelvis, Keys on Squeaky Clean & Machine, Voice on Machine, Drum Programs, Guitar on Fish, Teeth, Denver, Black & Wolfgang, Samba
review of Wait Till The Drugs Kick In by Mike Gunderloy in Factsheet Five #17, 1986
REVIEW by Jerry Kranitz
‘Wait Till The Drugs Kick In’ is a little different for Skoptzies in that the album is mostly instrumental except for the live cuts and vocals later on the B side. Significantly, Phinney brought some new members on board and the musicianship is noticeably improved.
‘Gyrating Pelvis’ opens the set and is an appropriately titled slab of spaced out electro-funk-dance-pop. These guys cover lots of bases! ‘Squeaky Clean’ takes us right into spaaaaaaace, with its swirling/droning/floating synths and steady rhythmic pulse. After a while the music starts to inch its way toward the dance floor, while totally maintaining the deep space cosmic vibe.
I love the sci-fi mayhem with a dash of Phantom of the Opera on ‘Don’t Eat The Fish’, which later abruptly launches into a fiery grunge-punk rocker with some impressive instrumental gymnastics. The theme continues on the hyper-kinetic space rocking ‘Teeth Like Nails’. This is a damn good rocking instrumental with impressive musicianship, especially the awesome guitar/bass combo.
‘Flex your Muscle’ is a live punk-a-billy tune with vocals and gets nicely freaky psychy at time. Wow, this version of Skoptzies is a pretty tight rocking band! Phinney described this as their rockabilly tune for the southern crowd. ‘Breakdown’ is a another live track with great drumming.
‘Black Proud Funky’ and ‘Me & Wolfgang’ kick off the B side. It sounds similar to ‘Gyrating Pelvis’ but get WAAAAY more out into space. Killer bass. And dig those fuzzed-dreamy-Dubby guitar soundscape waves, trippy howling cavernous and space BUZZSAW licks. The guitar gets jazzy later too. This track KILLS!!!
‘Machine Loves Woman’ is a skittishly rhythmic, spaced out bit of acid-dance-freakout-efx, parts of which remind me of F/i. ‘Headless Hillbilly’ features ripping guitar rock with frenetic percussion and weird country-punk vocals. ‘Feudin’ Time’ has similarly frenetic percussion but is totally rocking out in acid-fuzz drenched SPACE! And ‘Voodoo Samba (3rd Version)’ is a space grooving tune in the Samba "series". BEST Skoptizies set to date!