Stud Powercock: The Touch and Go Years 1981-1984

by The Meatmen

Overview

For any Meatmen completists out there -- strange a thought as that might be -- Stud Powercock is pretty much all that's needed for a complete overview of the band's earliest days. It's also about all any random listener needs as well, 39 songs' worth of ridiculously stupid, over-the-top condemnations of anyone not the Meatmen and their own particular vision of the world, simple and catchy enough punk/metal providing a vague hook for the general folly. Besides the We're the Meatmen and You Suck album, there is a slew of rarities and oddities that also appear on the simultaneously released vinyl-only Crippled Children Suck collection and elsewhere to keep one's attention, or alternately to drive one away. Six cuts from the band's original 1981-era demo tape kick things off; the quality redefines "rough" as a descriptive term, but Tesco Vee's ranting on familiar enough songs like "Tooling for Anus" and "1 Down 3 to Go" comes through arguably all too well. After another studio take on "Meatmen Stomp" that originally turned up on the Process of Elimination comp, it's off and away into Blued Sausage, the original Crippled Children Suck, and We're the Meatmen material, including such attractive (?) outtakes as the self-descriptive "TSOL Are Sissies." Tesco Vee's solo Dutch Hercules EP makes up most of the rest of the disc, along with some live 1984 cuts featuring that particular band lineup doing deeply unattractive things to Sly Stone's "Dance to the Music." Hate-filled cartoons, a photo of a used condom with a Meatmen logo on it, and more ridiculous folly rounds everything out. If one really must discover who the only real competition for the Mentors were in the '80s punk rock scene, Stud Powercock will satisfy the need, along with provoking the question about why the discovery needed to be made at all. ~ Ned Raggett

Product Details

Release Date:	07/01/1991
Label:	Touch & Go
UPC:	0036172076024
Rank:	93000

Tracks

1. Meatmen Stomp
2. I'm Glad I'm Not a Girl
3. Tooling for Anus
4. I've Got a Problem
5. Orgy of One
6. 1 Down 3 to Go
7. Meatmen Stomp
8. Tooling for Anus
9. 1 Down 3 to Go
10. Snuff 'Em
11. Becoming a Man
12. I've Got a Problem
13. I'm Glad I'm Not a Girl
14. Dumpling Ground
15. Middle Aged Youth
16. Meatmen Stomp
17. Mr. Tapeworm
18. Orgy of One
19. I SIn For a Living
20. Crippled Children Suck
21. Buttocks
22. Middle Aged Youth
23. Meat Crimes
24. TSOL Are Sissies
25. Blow Me Jah
26. Mr. Tapeworm
27. Orgy of One
28. I Sin For a Living
29. Crippled Children Suck
30. Spread Scat Boogie, #2
31. Meat Crimes
32. Lesbian Death Dirge
33. God's Bullies
34. Wine, Wenches, and Wheels
35. Dance to the Music
36. Crapper's Delight
37. Dance to the Music
38. Blow Me Jah
39. Becoming a Gay Man

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Meatmen   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Sylvester Stewart   Composer
The Meatmen   Composer