Tammy
2003-09-08 21:10:36 UTC
Lords of Acid - Greatest T*ts: September 9, 2003
www.lordsofacid.com / www.sanctuaryrecordsgroup.com
E-card: http://www.lordsofacid.com/ecard/
LORDS OF ACID ENTER THE FALL WITH 3 NEW TRACKS ON GREATEST T*TS
Band's First Compilation Record Spanning 14 Years Hits Stores on
September 9th
Amant Music and Sanctuary Records is pleased to celebrate Lords of
Acid's unmatched musical innovation and influence on contemporary
music with the release of their first retrospective, Greatest T*ts,
on September 9th. The record includes three new tracks, "Gimme,
Gimme", "Nasty Love" and "Stoned on Love Again", which were recorded
late last year and have not been previously available, as well as
many classics such as Billboard Club Chart Toppers, "Pussy", "Take
Control", "Rough Sex", "Rubber Doll", "The Crabhouse", "Am I Sexy "
and more! Greatest T*ts also contains an enhanced video for "Gimme,
Gimme". The band, originally, keyboardist/arranger Praga Khan, mixer
Oliver Adams and vocalist Nikkie Van Lierop (Jade 4 U), which was
formed in 1988 in Brussels, Belgium, with subsequent vocalist Lady
Galore, and current vocal superstar Deborah Ostrega, have sold 2
million records in the US. The band's first two releases, Lust and
Voodoo-U, achieved gold status based mainly upon their lifestyle
impact.
Lords of Acid have outperformed and outlasted many of their peers,
continuing to radically define the musical landscape, incorporating
bold new sounds and attitudes into their music. The band's mix of
humor, raunchiness and perversion and lyrics about cross-dressing,
doggy-style sex, spanking, and rubber-fetish, has brought them a
following ever-wanting more. From playing small dingy clubs with 800
people on their first US tour to large capacity venues, their
combination of raunchy humor, X-rated on-stage antics, S&M imagery
and hard beats, has made every LOA show the ultimate hedonistic party
atmosphere.
Many of Lords of Acid's tracks have been used in movies, ("Let's Get
High" in "Bad Lieutenant", "Am I Sexy" in "Austin Powers in
Goldmember", "Young Boys" in "Dogma", and "Take Control" in "XXX",
among many many others), and TV ("Pussy" as well as other songs used
in the HBO series "Real Sex", "Drink My Honey" in the HBO series "Sex
Bytes", and various songs used on "A Current Affair", ESPN
commercials, MTV "Biorhythm" specials and other shows). From the
release of their first single "I Sit on Acid" in 1989, which the New
York Times' Neil Strauss called "a flurry of pumping keyboards and
shifting pitches locked into a loop of a female voice singing
lascivious one-liners", the band gained a cult following. Robert
Christgau gave Lust, a "B+" in the January 28th, 1992 issue of the
Village Voice and wrote, " here at last is product brazen and
unwavering enough to live up to the canard about never
underestimating the power of cheap music."
Response to their 1994 second record Voodoo-U was equally as
ecstatic. J.D. Considine said, "A lot of dance music acts
acknowledge the relationship between club life and sex, but few make
the connection as explicitly as Lords of Acid do here as much as the
Lords play up the sex stuff, the album's appeal lies more with the
thumping overdrive of the synths than any of the heavy-breathing come
ons. The New York Daily News' Jim Farber gave the record "3 stars"
in the December 9th, 1994 edition and proclaimed, "It's the most fun-
loving and perverse dance record of now." .
In 2001, Lords of Acid released the critically acclaimed Farstucker.
In the May 8th, 2001 edition of the Village Voice, Michael Freedberg
wrote, "Pure witches' brew if you ask me; glam and evil LOA's knife-
edged, staticky rhythms divide and recombine, busy and complex like
1000 conversations overlapping and intersecting Above that clutter,
however, an LOA song moves where almost no U.S. pop music moves: in
and through the ether. Farstucker returns LOA to their basics. They
were the group who changed Belgian techno's outlook from icy darkness
to raving bawdy mischief." In the April 2, 2001 issue of CMJ New
Music Report, M.Tye Comer reviewed the band's fifth record and
proclaimed, "Farstucker rumbles and writhes with a tried-and-true mix
of searing guitar riffs and classic-techno tactics, resulting in a
collection of randy, industrial-minded pop-metal musings." Andrew
Lentz's preview of the band's Los Angeles show in the March 2nd -8th
issue of LA Weekly said, "...the result is smokin' .You'll not only
walk away hot and bothered, you'll have catchy kink anthems on the
brain."
The band's career is not without controversy. In 1994, the band's
cover artwork for the album Voodoo-U, by cult artist Coop, as well as
lyrics for the track "Young Boys" was considered sexually explicit
and the record almost didn't get released. This happened to the band
on another occasion as well. Despite a one-day shipping delay, the
record was in stores as scheduled and a less explicit version of the
cover was also created and in stores a month later. In 1995, Sextasy
Ball's slides used in their performance environment, including
artwork by Andres Serrano and others, shown in the context of a
retrospective of censorship, were confiscated as pornography and
dancers were arrested for indecent exposure despite their black
electric-taped nipples.
Lords of Acid have bolstered the group's reputation for powerful live
performances by touring the US extensively and gaining an impressive
following. They have headlinied to as many as 250,000 fans during a
given tour. Tom Maurstad, reviewing LOA's performance at the Lizard
Lounge in Dallas for the Dallas Morning News (February 21, 1995)
said, " the club looked like a scene out of some cyber-punk-porno
flick In an ani-sex, anti-drugs age, Lords of Acid revel in
exhortations of both, and the crowd swayed and boiled in the blessed-
out oblivion of the moment."
The Lords distinctive sound and attitude has set them apart for
years. Greatest T*ts is both a wonderful primer for the novice and
an essential document of the band's peerless considerable
accomplishments for the completist.
Tracklisting
1. Gimme Gimme
2. Pussy
3. I Sit On Acid
4. Crablouse
5. Am I Sexy
6. Stoned on Love Again
7. Marijana In Your Brain
8. Rough Sex
9. Rubber Doll
10. Take Control
11. Scrood Bi U
12. The Most Wonderful Girl
13. Do What You Wanna Do
14. Lover
15. Nasty Love
+ Enhanced portion containing the video for Gimme Gimme
"Gimme Gimme" Commercial Single In Stores 9.23
- Real Deal. LP Deal Mix
- Carl S. Johnson Swings His Thing Mix
- Erhan's The One Mix
- "I Sit On Acid" - God Lives Underwater Mix
www.lordsofacid.com / www.sanctuaryrecordsgroup.com
E-card: http://www.lordsofacid.com/ecard/
LORDS OF ACID ENTER THE FALL WITH 3 NEW TRACKS ON GREATEST T*TS
Band's First Compilation Record Spanning 14 Years Hits Stores on
September 9th
Amant Music and Sanctuary Records is pleased to celebrate Lords of
Acid's unmatched musical innovation and influence on contemporary
music with the release of their first retrospective, Greatest T*ts,
on September 9th. The record includes three new tracks, "Gimme,
Gimme", "Nasty Love" and "Stoned on Love Again", which were recorded
late last year and have not been previously available, as well as
many classics such as Billboard Club Chart Toppers, "Pussy", "Take
Control", "Rough Sex", "Rubber Doll", "The Crabhouse", "Am I Sexy "
and more! Greatest T*ts also contains an enhanced video for "Gimme,
Gimme". The band, originally, keyboardist/arranger Praga Khan, mixer
Oliver Adams and vocalist Nikkie Van Lierop (Jade 4 U), which was
formed in 1988 in Brussels, Belgium, with subsequent vocalist Lady
Galore, and current vocal superstar Deborah Ostrega, have sold 2
million records in the US. The band's first two releases, Lust and
Voodoo-U, achieved gold status based mainly upon their lifestyle
impact.
Lords of Acid have outperformed and outlasted many of their peers,
continuing to radically define the musical landscape, incorporating
bold new sounds and attitudes into their music. The band's mix of
humor, raunchiness and perversion and lyrics about cross-dressing,
doggy-style sex, spanking, and rubber-fetish, has brought them a
following ever-wanting more. From playing small dingy clubs with 800
people on their first US tour to large capacity venues, their
combination of raunchy humor, X-rated on-stage antics, S&M imagery
and hard beats, has made every LOA show the ultimate hedonistic party
atmosphere.
Many of Lords of Acid's tracks have been used in movies, ("Let's Get
High" in "Bad Lieutenant", "Am I Sexy" in "Austin Powers in
Goldmember", "Young Boys" in "Dogma", and "Take Control" in "XXX",
among many many others), and TV ("Pussy" as well as other songs used
in the HBO series "Real Sex", "Drink My Honey" in the HBO series "Sex
Bytes", and various songs used on "A Current Affair", ESPN
commercials, MTV "Biorhythm" specials and other shows). From the
release of their first single "I Sit on Acid" in 1989, which the New
York Times' Neil Strauss called "a flurry of pumping keyboards and
shifting pitches locked into a loop of a female voice singing
lascivious one-liners", the band gained a cult following. Robert
Christgau gave Lust, a "B+" in the January 28th, 1992 issue of the
Village Voice and wrote, " here at last is product brazen and
unwavering enough to live up to the canard about never
underestimating the power of cheap music."
Response to their 1994 second record Voodoo-U was equally as
ecstatic. J.D. Considine said, "A lot of dance music acts
acknowledge the relationship between club life and sex, but few make
the connection as explicitly as Lords of Acid do here as much as the
Lords play up the sex stuff, the album's appeal lies more with the
thumping overdrive of the synths than any of the heavy-breathing come
ons. The New York Daily News' Jim Farber gave the record "3 stars"
in the December 9th, 1994 edition and proclaimed, "It's the most fun-
loving and perverse dance record of now." .
In 2001, Lords of Acid released the critically acclaimed Farstucker.
In the May 8th, 2001 edition of the Village Voice, Michael Freedberg
wrote, "Pure witches' brew if you ask me; glam and evil LOA's knife-
edged, staticky rhythms divide and recombine, busy and complex like
1000 conversations overlapping and intersecting Above that clutter,
however, an LOA song moves where almost no U.S. pop music moves: in
and through the ether. Farstucker returns LOA to their basics. They
were the group who changed Belgian techno's outlook from icy darkness
to raving bawdy mischief." In the April 2, 2001 issue of CMJ New
Music Report, M.Tye Comer reviewed the band's fifth record and
proclaimed, "Farstucker rumbles and writhes with a tried-and-true mix
of searing guitar riffs and classic-techno tactics, resulting in a
collection of randy, industrial-minded pop-metal musings." Andrew
Lentz's preview of the band's Los Angeles show in the March 2nd -8th
issue of LA Weekly said, "...the result is smokin' .You'll not only
walk away hot and bothered, you'll have catchy kink anthems on the
brain."
The band's career is not without controversy. In 1994, the band's
cover artwork for the album Voodoo-U, by cult artist Coop, as well as
lyrics for the track "Young Boys" was considered sexually explicit
and the record almost didn't get released. This happened to the band
on another occasion as well. Despite a one-day shipping delay, the
record was in stores as scheduled and a less explicit version of the
cover was also created and in stores a month later. In 1995, Sextasy
Ball's slides used in their performance environment, including
artwork by Andres Serrano and others, shown in the context of a
retrospective of censorship, were confiscated as pornography and
dancers were arrested for indecent exposure despite their black
electric-taped nipples.
Lords of Acid have bolstered the group's reputation for powerful live
performances by touring the US extensively and gaining an impressive
following. They have headlinied to as many as 250,000 fans during a
given tour. Tom Maurstad, reviewing LOA's performance at the Lizard
Lounge in Dallas for the Dallas Morning News (February 21, 1995)
said, " the club looked like a scene out of some cyber-punk-porno
flick In an ani-sex, anti-drugs age, Lords of Acid revel in
exhortations of both, and the crowd swayed and boiled in the blessed-
out oblivion of the moment."
The Lords distinctive sound and attitude has set them apart for
years. Greatest T*ts is both a wonderful primer for the novice and
an essential document of the band's peerless considerable
accomplishments for the completist.
Tracklisting
1. Gimme Gimme
2. Pussy
3. I Sit On Acid
4. Crablouse
5. Am I Sexy
6. Stoned on Love Again
7. Marijana In Your Brain
8. Rough Sex
9. Rubber Doll
10. Take Control
11. Scrood Bi U
12. The Most Wonderful Girl
13. Do What You Wanna Do
14. Lover
15. Nasty Love
+ Enhanced portion containing the video for Gimme Gimme
"Gimme Gimme" Commercial Single In Stores 9.23
- Real Deal. LP Deal Mix
- Carl S. Johnson Swings His Thing Mix
- Erhan's The One Mix
- "I Sit On Acid" - God Lives Underwater Mix