Alice Donut - Bucketfulls of Sickness and Horror in an Otherwise Meaningless Life (1989)

1. Lydia's Black Lung 2:48
2. Testosterone Gone Wild 2:24
3. Sinéad O'Connor on T.V. 1:34
4. Dorothy 4:29
5. Sky of Bones 4:50
6. Egg 3:37
7. Consumer Decency 2:34
8. My Life Is a Mediocre Piece of Shit 4:13
9. Incinerator Heart 1:30
10. Bucket, Forks, Pock 3:38
11. Demonologist 3:14

Punks with the good sense to look at everything The Butthole Surfers did and then conclude that a punk could and should listen to Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart not only for their strange instrumental turns, but also for their shitty jokes- Alice Donut have a good sense of humour and critical eye (Sinead O'Connor on TV is not what you'd expect)- but they aren't just punx gone avant-tard (there's enough of that!)- there's also the bizarro Morrissey jokes/observations (at least it's not all husky piss, right?) and fun hooks of whatever punk band they also listen to from the era where punks simplified pop, so that with the avant-ness is bratty power pop punk rock gone weird- making one wonder why they weren't more popular when maybe it's just my imagination, but didn't a whole heap of 1990s alternative rock bands try to do just that?

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Alice Donut - Mule (1990)

1. Mother of Christ 4:01

2. Mrs. Hayes 2:38

3. Roaches in the Sink 4:11

4. Crawlpappy 2:12

5. My Severed Head 4:21

6. Bottom of the Chain 6:07

7. Burlesque 2:40

8. Big Ass 4:06

9. Roadkill 3:27

10. Tiny Ugly World 4:23

11. J Train Downtown: A Nest of Murder 4:30

12. Cow's Placenta to Armageddon 3:19

13. My Boyfriend's Back 2:22

14. Demonologist [unlisted] 3:42

Alice Donut's third album (Like the last two, but perfect. Every song a tiny gem of absolute genius- Mark Prindle)

Creative, catchy weirdo punk with whiny vocals and genius lyrics

A fed up Serbian,
kills Arch Duke Ferdinand,
unhinging the wrath of millions,
Time to Drink myself into oblivion

Like Redd Kross' Neurotica, Mule exists completely out of the 80s-90s reinvention of punk rock for the sake of- grunge-ing- but in a way epitomizes and betters all of that shit- as much as I'm willing to claim Nirvana as my second favourite band, Mule and Alice Donut are just some of the best shit ever

PS Mrs. Hayes skips half way through, I'll sort that out and re-up the track when I get home

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