Arriving two years after the debut
Big Sexy Land
,
Revolting Cocks
'
You Goddamned Son of a Bitch
wasn't so much a live album as a truer, sicker representation of the group's angrily mechanistic, claustrophobic
industrial
grunt. Joining ringleader
Al Jourgensen
were
Luc Van Acker
Chris Connelly
Paul Barker
, and
Bill Rieflin
; together, they energized the stark nihilism of the
Big Sexy
material with insulting stage banter, vocals, samples that hit with a more vicious edge, and relentless programming and
electronic
percussion that removed the human being's eventual need for a rest. The result was a grinding
endurance test. In addition to
"TV Mind"
and
"We Shall Cleanse the World,"
Goddamned Son of a Bitch
was highlighted by its title track and
"In the Neck"."
("I'm a killing machine!," went the latter's less than subtle lyrics, and it wasn't hard to believe.)
Rykodisc
reissued the album in 2004, as part of a series celebrating the early part of
's career. Newly mastered, the album was also expanded to two discs, and augmented with live versions of
"Stainless Steel Providers"
P.I.L.
's
"Public Image"
from a 1990 12". ~ Johnny Loftus