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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Holy ****, you like Heartwork! I love that goddamn album to the nines! I haven't listened to that much Extreme Noise Terror but am a fan of many of their early grindcore contemporaries. A very surprising intersection of interests.
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You will totally love my tale of why I dig them
I think it was the third or fourth asylum I was dropped off at (most of the 90s are a blur of hospital food and patients stealing my underwear). As usual, during admission all of my CDs, cassettes, art, literature, (and I suppose VHS tapes were I to have any in tow), were seized and reviewed to determine whether or not they were permissible within the rubber-walled unit. I remember Bush's Sixteen Stone CD being confiscated because the words,
"Kill a man... I kill a girl" appeared among Gavin's nonsensically random lyrics in the booklet.
So, being locked away for years without music, I eventually worked my way up to the behavior level where I was permitted to use a boom box, (with C-batteries - cords are dangerous). I perused the hospital CD shelf curious to see what sanctioned music I might enjoy. That's when I spotted it.
It must have been snuck onto the shelf by a former patient, or perhaps by the bullet-headed Primus loving counselor who did donuts on the lawn in his jeep. But there it was - Carcass' Heartwork on the hospital CD shelf.
Holy sh*t it was amazing. I made sure to sneak it home when I was released years later, and still have it as a memento of the discovery.
Good times.