Black randy and the metrosquad rar

He wants to take bribes, steal drugs and lock 'em up. This song is the strongest example of Randy's satire, as well as the one that's the nastiest of his songs. The other interesting aspect of Black Randy is his total obscurity. He doesn't even have an individual listing in the All Music Guide. This is extraordinary in of itself. Everyone has a listing there: The Dils, Chainsaw Kitten, even Delta 5 a band known more for a single and a tour than an album.

Black Randy's album was briefly reissued by Sympathy for the Record Industry, but has fallen out of print again. He hasn't been discovered by a new generation of punk kids, but then he was never embraced by the older generation of punk fans either. Why is this? Part of the reason is that he put out very little recorded work in his lifetime. Even with some dodgy out-takes and live recordings added including an interminable sampling of Randy's stage show , the CD barely cracks the fifty minute mark.

Randy's early death prevented any kind of body of work from forming. Also, his music was strangely difficult. Unlike the Germs or X who drew from fairly traditional rock roots, Black Randy's appropriation of soft funk-soul makes him a much less appealing artist for musicians in his milieu to follow- he had no Gang Of Four no-wave-isms or Minuteman virtuosity and song writing.

Black Randy's music isn't very interesting when viewed as music per se- rather, it should be viewed as performance art. His use of his musical forms was to further exaggerate the grotesque parody. The last reason I think that he's been largely forgotten is one of image.

Unlike Darby Crash or Exene, Black Randy never embodied or even seemed to try to embody the punk look. He was too old and kind of chubby. He wore long hippie shirts and pork pie hats- never anything close to the punk look. Black Randy wasn't sexy or iconic, and didn't live long enough to become a punk elder and didn't die young enough to become one of its martyr's.

He didn't seem to embody some kind of ideal state to which to aspire towards. Black Randy was working against the rock star image the majority of artists cultivate- he bathed in the dregs of society without trying to ennoble them like Lou Reed.

He didn't try to make a virtue out of weakness like punk rock traditionally did- he wasn't the voice of the oppressed or an agent of the oppressor, but rather a howling, bitter laugh. He was a nihilistic satire of our collective vanity and ambition, and showed how the human desire for power is consuming and essentially always the same, whether it's in the form of a bloated celebrity, hipster, African dictator, cultural icon or religious worshiper relying on God to provide.

Hopefully, one day there'll be a cult following for Randy, and I'm sure he'd have secretly brimmed with pride, while subjecting them to as much abuse, verbal and otherwise as he could. Posted by mutantsounds at AM. Post a Comment. All previous Vas Deferens Organization and related project posts on Mutant Sounds can be found below with new links. Email This BlogThis! Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom.

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He wants to be a dirty, dirty cop in Hollywood, like something out of Bad Lieutenant. More than that, he dreams of demanding bribes, taking the hipsters' dope and throwing them in the back of his car. He dreams of being able to assert power over the very cool rock culture that's rejected him as a square.

He'll become the ultimate symbol of Squaredom, and lock them up for locking him out. He veers between sneering and sniveling, saying that he has to study hard to become a cop. He can't wait. He wants to take bribes, steal drugs and lock 'em up.

This song is the strongest example of Randy's satire, as well as the one that's the nastiest of his songs. The other interesting aspect of Black Randy is his total obscurity. He doesn't even have an individual listing in the All Music Guide.

This is extraordinary in of itself. Everyone has a listing there: The Dils, Chainsaw Kitten, even Delta 5 a band known more for a single and a tour than an album. Black Randy's album was briefly reissued by Sympathy for the Record Industry, but has fallen out of print again. He hasn't been discovered by a new generation of punk kids, but then he was never embraced by the older generation of punk fans either. Why is this? Part of the reason is that he put out very little recorded work in his lifetime.

Even with some dodgy out-takes and live recordings added including an interminable sampling of Randy's stage show , the CD barely cracks the fifty minute mark. Randy's early death prevented any kind of body of work from forming. Also, his music was strangely difficult.

Unlike the Germs or X who drew from fairly traditional rock roots, Black Randy's appropriation of soft funk-soul makes him a much less appealing artist for musicians in his milieu to follow- he had no Gang Of Four no-wave-isms or Minuteman virtuosity and song writing. Black Randy's music isn't very interesting when viewed as music per se- rather, it should be viewed as performance art. His use of his musical forms was to further exaggerate the grotesque parody.

The last reason I think that he's been largely forgotten is one of image. Unlike Darby Crash or Exene, Black Randy never embodied or even seemed to try to embody the punk look. He was too old and kind of chubby.