In fact, I always just assumed a nipple belt was maybe a belt that you wore across your nipples, like maybe the straps on coveralls, or for some kinky S&M purposes - because what do I know about bondage? Now that I'm reading the rest of the lyrics of the song, I am pretty sure "Nipple Belt" is about a belt MADE of nipples, sewn together in the manner of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or Silence of the Lambs, or, well, Ed Gein himself. Another example: I knew from the revised cover art of 8 Way Santa - see below - that Tad had an Ed Gein thing going ("we had been reading about various serial killers and found Ed’s story horrific and note worthy," he tells me of the T-shirt he's wearing), But I never knew that "Nipple Belt" was actually about Ed Gein, despite the rather unsubtle lyric, repeated twice, that "My name is Ed Gein," which I'd never even tried to make out before (it's not toally undecipherable, in fact, but when there's no lyric sheet you don't spend a lot of time on these matters, because you have no confidence you'll get it right and have nothing to check against). And I had never heard the "jizzin'" in Tad's expletive, "sweet jizzin' Jesus," also in the same song. Take " Boiler Room," for example I've always been able to hear the line about how "Jesus drank corn squeezin's" one of the easier to discern lyrical details on the album - but spinning the remaster, I can hear the rest of the sentence, the growled, previously incomprehensible, "and had sideburns." (Har). Perhaps in a nice refrenshing cyanide bath. Don't get me wrong: unlike with Exile's murk, it's not that there was anything particularly wanting about the original LPs but these new remasters are like the doors of perception have been cleansed. It's one of my most-listened to albums ever, but there are things I can hear now that I could never begin to make out before. I mean, I bought God's Balls almost as soon as it came out (1989? 1990?), and have owned most of it in one form or another pretty much all my life (at some point, when I briefly thought I would leave vinyl behind, only as bonus cuts on the Salt Lick CD). ![]() Spinning these new editions, I'm picking up instruments, details, even words I never noticed or understood before, and marvelling at the big, swirly richness of the sound. ![]() So it is with these remastered TAD reissues (because of course I have all three of the original releases of these albums in my collection, in the case of 8 Way Santa in FOUR unique versions: two signed and creatively defaced copies of the original, plus the original on CD, and the 2nd version of the CD with a different cover and all references to Pepsi removed from the art). (Wicked demo version of "Wired God," too). Bonus materials on the LP include demos and early singles, from my favourite non-LP TAD song, " Loser" - which I already had on a 7" and on the German Glitterhouse edition of the Salt Lick EP - to an improbably fun TAD mash up between Black Flag's "Damaged" and AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock," which to my knowledge has never seen the light before. Red Cat, as of yesterday, has a couple left (Neptoon is out - Ben gave the last one to me) I don't know about other Vancouver stores. People who buy all three TAD reissues from the same place - and you should, you should - should note that there are coloured wax versions out there as well as straightforward black, and that stores have been sent a limited LP edition of (at least some of) the bonus cuts to give to customers who buy all three albums (these presumably also come with mailorders). Other albums come and go off the list - hell, I'm not even sure that Zen Arcade makes the cut these days (!) - but only three have stable, guaranteed places, those being the third TAD album, Mission of Burma's Vs, and the Flesh Eaters' magnificent Forever Came Today - also the subject of a recent reissue through Superior Viaduct. Has anyone out there missed this? There are presently three TAD reissues available at Vancouver record stores: G od's Balls, Salt Lick, and (my favourite), 8 Way Santa, which is one of three albums I know for sure would make any "top ten rock album" list I ever compiled.
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