Roxy Pain - Best Of The Last Fourty Years (2007)

I can't really give you the real bio on this band because...well, i'm not sure anyone outside their immediate group of friends and contacts really knows. All I know for sure is, at least a couple of them are Oberlin College alumni with various art degrees, two of the members own one of the biggest screen printing shops in New York, (they've done the bulk of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs printing) they are a Brooklyn based four-piece, and when they played Kalamazoo, Michigan last month, they blew my fucking mind. Here is what they have to say about themseleves:

Four mascara damaged art drunks formed Roxy Pain in 1971 in London, Ontario. The only surviving members of a social experiment gone terribly wrong. When their leader and guru "the old one" revealed himself as a follower of Cthulhu; they took their energies and abilites and directed them at the evil of "organized things". Current members are Wolfy Pt II., Kayrock, Mike P. and O.J. Over the years the band has gained and lost the following members (never to sacrifice or murder): Sandra "Mother" H., PCRZ, Omid "Battletorn" Y., Trisha "Milk for Cats" M., Emily "Piano God" M., Pia "Machete" V., Chris M., Maya H., Andrew "Home" D., Seth M., Billy "Bikini Kill" K., Katie "Young People" E., Casey "Loose" L. and special honorary dancer Charlie "Brown" R.
After a brief association with the Baader-Meinhof Gang; they traveled throughout Europe and Russia. They settled in North Africa to search for the Ultimate Urban Contemporary Sound. Scheduled to play the first US Festival in 1983; several members of the band, out of their gourds on Peyote, found themselves in Iceland; in search of the Holy Mountain. The others retreated to corporate sponsorship by such companies as Buster Brown Shoes and Kiwi Shoe and Boot Polish. The resulting intranet book proved to be the band's downfall, as a rash of poorly informed investments caused them to loose their musical ability. The two factions decided that the only balance between ideas and ethics was to reform and move to New York City. Roxy Pain is an Antipleonast band. Their sound has been described as "John Carpenter meets Hawkwind"

"The Best of the Last Fourty Years" is a discography of sorts (by no means has this band been around for fourty years) with a few holes here and there. Nearly everything Roxy Pain has done is on "Best of the Last Fourty Years," however, there are many alternate versions of each song on various 7 inches, and does not include their (15 minute) take on George Michael's "Careless Whispers." This Album is equal parts weird and awesome.

Tracklisting:

1.Care-A-Lot
2.Middle East
3.The Last Bullet, Two More
4.The Chauffer (Toilet Roll)
5.A Short Lesson In Linguistics
6.An Obviouse Plot We Can Stop
7.Tunnel Hunt
8.The Chauffer
9.Black Metal
10.Donna Summers Fall
11.Helter Skelter
12."Do You Remember A Black Purse and Kippers?"
13.I Know What Boys Like
14.Donna Summers Spring
15.What If Evil Were Alive (Night Station)
16.*(Mob Stereo)
17.Creature In Your Head (Rabid Lassie)

band: roxypain.com ~or~ myspace.com/roxypain
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