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01. LIVE SKULL - Swingtime
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02. LIVE SKULL - Raise the Manfestation
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03. LIVE SKULL - Pusherman
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04. LIVE SKULL - Basket Case Mash-Up
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ARTIST
LIVE SKULL
TITLE
Pusherman EP
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
DESIRE RECORDS
CATALOG #
DESIRE 086CD
DESIRE 086CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/22/2014
Recorded in 1986, the
Pusherman
EP is the final studio record released by the original
Live Skull
quartet of
Mark C
,
Tom Paine
,
Marnie Greenholz
and
James Lo
. Along with
Sonic Youth
and
Swans
, Live Skull was the face of New York's post-no wave "noise scene" during the 1980s, and the songs on the
Pusherman
EP are in many ways the culmination of that movement and the essence of what Live Skull was all about. Relentlessly fierce but with an unnerving ability to insinuate themselves in your brain, the songs on the
Pusherman
EP further refine Live Skull's pioneering strategy of threading unlikely hooks through mystifying interference patterns that subvert traditional rock in previously unheard ways. The EP would deserve its classic status if only for its free-associating version of "Pusherman" (a very curious hit on college radio back in '86), a thoroughly abstracted but weirdly faithful cover that re-imagines
Curtis Mayfield
's original through the cracked and filthy lens of Live Skull's crumbling East Village. Less than a year after this record's release, Live Skull would find itself in transition, eventually becoming a quintet with drummer
Rich Hutchins
and
Thalia Zedek
on vocals -- but the
Pusherman
EP stands in the minds of many fans and critics as not just the original line-up's final testament, but possibly its finest. In his much-quoted review for
The New York Times
,
Robert Palmer
declared, "With each new record, New York's Live Skull delivers a more concentrated brand of emotional intensity, a more ferociously disciplined sonic assault. Live Skull's music -- a high-wire act played for keeps, without a net -- is as challenging, as spiritually corrosive, and ultimately as transcendent as
Albert Ayler
's mid-'60s free jazz or the implacable drone-dance of the early
Velvet Underground
. It's one of the essential sounds of our time." Out of print for nearly 30 years, Live Skull's
Pusherman
EP has now been reissued on limited edition vinyl and (for the first time ever) on CD, complete with a lavish booklet including extensive liner notes by founding members
Tom Paine
and
Mark C
, and six extremely rare bonus tracks. This is the fourth release in Desire Records' Live Skull project, an ambitious eight-title series of reissues of the entire Live Skull catalog, personally overseen by Mark C and Tom Paine.
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