Music From Hell, by Nervous Gender

Music From Hell

by Nervous Gender

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x6xFuneraLx6xDanceRx6x OG queer freak synthcore destroying the gender 100010011100 Favorite track: Alien Point of View.

🔻 DEⒶTHROCKERBEAR So excited to see this re-release! I still have my Subterranean Records L.P. split w/Beelzebub Youth, I cant wait to check out the unreleased tracks! They don't make em like this anymore! A TRUE classic 🔻 Favorite track: Alien Point of View.

93xadamcnois3x93 Thank you to all who made this possible!!!!

persistently at midnight One of my all time favorite unique albums gets the reissue treatment it duly deserves, with enticing sounding extras.

Music From Hell is the kind of album that has to come into your life a bit, perhaps creeping in at first. RIYL: Synthesizer Weirdos / Post New Wave Sewer Mutants / Industrial Music for Industrial People

Chris DKA So stoked this is coming out with bonus tracks! Been waiting for this reissue forever. Yay!

jimmywilson54 It’s like the ultimate NG compilation. Almost everything is here. I’m so glad I ordered this

Thanks Edward

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
includes a 36 page lyric booklet, foldout poster, and gatefold sleeve with photos, flyers, and news-clippings

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1.	Monsters 03:26	buy track
2.	Alien Point of View 04:04	buy track
3.	Cardinal Newman 01:45	buy track
4.	Fat Cow 02:35	buy track
5.	Nothing To Hide 02:42	buy track
6.	People Like You 02:41	buy track
7.	Regress For You 03:40	buy track
8.	Christian Lovers 04:46	buy track
9.	Exorcism 03:19	buy track
10.	Bathroom Sluts 02:25	buy track
11.	Pie On A Ledge 03:22	buy track
12.	Push, Push Push 01:54	buy track
13.	Alice's Song 00:58	buy track
14.	Praise The Lord 01:19	buy track
15.	My Mommy's Chest 01:34	buy track
16.	Slave 01:59	buy track
17.	Poets (Early Version) 02:00	buy track
18.	Pretty Vacant 02:09	buy track
19.	Miscarriage 01:54	buy track
20.	Scandinavian Dilemma 03:07	buy track
21.	Poets 02:40	buy track
22.	Confession 02:49	buy track
23.	She Works For Safeway 01:03	buy track
24.	Bible Stories 00:37	buy track
25.	Baby Face 03:25	buy track
26.	Berlin Red Head 01:25	buy track
27.	Dyptheria 02:09	buy track
28.	Castration 02:25	buy track
29.	Green Tile Floor 03:28	buy track
30.	Bathroom Sluts (Demo) 02:27	buy track
31.	Waterpiss 02:46	buy track

about

Nervous Gender’s legendary synthpunk LP Music From Hell burbles up from infernal depths to resurface on Dark Entries! Confrontational, unhinged, and unabashedly queer, Music from Hell is an unholy grail for fans of the strangest underbellies of post-punk, minimal synth, and early industrial music, and is presented here newly remastered and on expanded double LP. Nervous Gender (de)formed in LA in 1978 at the hands of Phranc, Gerardo Velaquez, Edward Stapleton, and Michael Ochoa. Phranc, the androgynous embodiment of the band’s name, left in 1980. Following her departure, a wide cast of LA freaks would find themselves drawn into the band’s orbit, including Alice Bag of the Bags, Paul Roessler of the Screamers, the Germs’ Don Bolles, and an 8-year old drummer named Sven Pfeiffer. In 1980, Nervous Gender appeared on the seminal Live at Target compilation alongside Factrix, uns, and Flipper. With the band’s notoriety cemented, Music from Hell followed in 1981 on Subterranean Records (as no LA label would touch this material). Side A, dubbed “Martyr Complex”, presents a more punk-forward sound with live drum salvos and slabs of aggressive synth. These twitchy, unsettling shockers ooze with the kind of snotty misanthropy that will endear them to fans of the Screamers or Crass. Side B, known as “Beelzebub Youth”, is a live performance the band labeled "an electronic bruto-canto dissertation on the banality of spiritual transcendence." Mutant melodies cede way to synthesized clangs, whirs, bleeps, manipulated tapes, and howls of despair. In addition to all the material from the original LP, we’re treated to a full disc of the band’s demos, the material from the Live at Target compilation, and early live recordings. Included are unrecognizable covers of Carly Simon and Lou Reed, and the Sex Pistols that are so despairingly skewed they fall into the void. This reissue of Music From Hell includes a 36 page lyric booklet, foldout poster, and gatefold sleeve with photos, flyers, and news-clippings designed by Eloise Leigh. Tackling taboo issues like sexual kinks, mental illness, drug use, and childhood molestation, Music From Hell is still surprising – even shocking - over 40 years after the album’s release. Nervous Gender stand as one of the most genuinely anti-establishment outfits in underground music, a colossal fuck you to social norms from religious strictures to gender essentialism.

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released October 31, 2023

All songs by Nervous Gender
All lyrics by Gerardo Velázquez
Except “Cardinal Newman,” “Berlin Red Head” and
“Bathroom Sluts” by Edward Stapleton
“Christian Lovers” by G. Velázquez / E. Stapleton
“Push, Push, Push” by Patrice Repose
“Alice’s Song” by G. Velázquez / Alice Armendariz
“Miscarriage,” “Confession,” “Poets” and “Mommy’s Chest” by
G. Velázquez / Michael Ochoa
“Slave” by Carly Simon
“Pretty Vacant” by Glen Matlock / John Lydon
“Baby Face” by Lou Reed
MUSICIANS THAT PLAYED ON THIS ALBUM:
EDWARD STAPLETON (synthesizer, lead and back up vocals)
GERARDO VELÁZQUEZ (synthesizer, lead and back up vocals)
MICHAEL OCHOA (synthesizer, lead and back up vocals on C2-C9, D3-D5)
DON BOLLES (synthesized percussion, noise and guitar effects on Side A. Tape loops, tape effect and sneaky underhanded tape recordings
of private matters on Side B.)
BILL CLINE (synthesizer and some back up vocals)
PHRANC (lead vocals on C2, C4, C5)
PAUL ROESSLER (synthesizer and metal surface on C6-C9)
SVEN PFEIFFER (drums on C6-C9)
ALICIA ARMENDARIZ (string ensemble and polyphonic on “Alice’s Song”)
PATRICE REPOSE (some lead vocals on Side B)
MICHAEL INTRIERE AND DAVID HUGHES (insult solo on “Fat Cow”)
DINAH CANCER (moans on “Bathroom Sluts”)
BRAD LANER (synare on “Castration”)
RON ATHEY (vocals on “Bible Stories”)
A1-A7, B6 were recorded on a Toshiba RT-8200a portable cassette recorder and a Sankyo STD-1700 cassette deck. Our most outrageous thanks to Mr Mike Fox for his fidelity recuperation tactics. This album was recorded and mixed in a span of 36 hours (mistakes and all).
B1-B5 performed live in Traction Gallery on May 30, 1981.
C1-C5, D1-D9 taken from ‘Selected Pieces, 1979-1983.’
C6-C9 recorded live at Target on February 24, 1980.
D4 recorded live at KPFK, Los Angeles, CA 1980.
D6 recorded live at Al’s Bar, Los Angeles on April 24, 1982.
D8 recorded live at the Cathay de Grande, Hollywood 1982.
Remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley
Compilation co-producer: Brad Laner
Layout Reproduction and Design: Eloise Leigh
THIS ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO GERARDO DE JESÚS VELÁZQUEZ (1958–1992)

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