I never owned the vinyl version of Atomizer by Big Black, but I've a got CD version which includes the most of LP plus a couple of 12" singles. Great cover, a shame they didn't reproduce it on the CD, which is called Rich Man's Eight Track. The charming legend on the inside booklet reads something like 'you dumb pussies can all suck our cocks'. I bought it in a second hand record shop on Newland Ave in Hull, where the proprietor would take advantage of a north facing shop front by placing seed trays in the window alongside the old Status Quo and Gillan albums.
Atomizer is in no way an easy listening record, but it contains at least three electrifying tracks which make it worth the price of admission: Jordan Minnesota, Kerosene, and Bazooka Joe. I would love to have seen them live, I don't know if they ever came to the UK, but a double bill of Big Black and Husker Du would have been terrific.
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I can't imagine that a north facing window in Hull is ever going to grow much except dust and dead flies, however many Status Quo albums there are to midwife new growth.
Even a south facer is going to be up against it in Hull...
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