HARRY PUSSY "A Real New England Fuck Up" Not a Review but a Redress

Was blasting Harry Pussy’s A Real New England Fuck Up LP recently. And I was indignantly wondering: “Where the hell are the raving reviews for this brain-melting live document of one of the most irreverent and severely underrated groups of all time? Where is David Keenan? Where is Byron Coley? Where are the saliva dripping, mentally retarding and reflexes halting descriptions about how great the band was in those two gigs which they once again annihilated those present and those who has the fortune to blast it in their home systems?”

Side A’s “T.T. Bears, Cambridge, MA 1996” is a blistering bluster from start to finish. With a grossly pissed off Adris Hoyos over her drum kit missing or something like that prior to getting on stage to set it ablaze. It didn’t seem to matter as she was in negative adrenalized top form with extra vitriolic bile thrown in for good measure. Free jazz meets Hardcore? Free Hardcore? Or simply what Hardcore should be like in an alternatively perfect world where Minutemen should be kings, Husker Du should be kings and Flipper should be changeling princes like Loki?

Flipping the vinyl over and barely recovering from the almost asthma like kinda hyperventilation, Side B’s “WUOG, Athens, GA 1994” just takes you to the ultra zone of free-for-all. Hoyos rules but Bill Orcutt is the champ on this side. Buzzing guitar sprays of inhumanity taking the listener for a ride. Gravity-defying blitzkrieg of atonal futurism which Marinetti and Russolo could only have dreamt of in their deepest recesses of their sub-consciousness.

It baffles me that I have not come across any reviews on this slab of molten lava hot piece of plastic. It baffles me that they were so underappreciated when they were around and long after they were gone. Hipsters might be googoo gaga over Orcutt’s solo outings in the recent decade and rightfully so but to me Harry Pussy were the real frigging and freaking deal of 1990s skulduggery. May they blitz on in an alternative universe and cleanse it of all the idiots and dunkheads who populate the real world we are sadly living in.