Bad Mood Guy

Description

Although essentially one man, chief noisemaker Tom Ellard, he was joined here by film maker/homebrew video synthesizer operator Stephen Jones, and effects producer Robert Racic: who had worked with New Order. The result is a punishing view of pop, all crunching rhythms and electronic juxtapose. By incorporating popular tropes such as consistent rhythms, melodic vocal lines and drum machines this was perhaps as near to a little ‘boogie-oogie-oogie’ as Severed Heads were likely to get, but the outcome is a striking hybrid of the avant-garde, EBM and Synth-pop, an industrial vortex in which the sounds of the 20th century are sucked in and spat out around a monstrous dance beat.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Hot With Fleas – Severed Heads
2. Nation – Severed Heads
3. Unleash Your Sword – Severed Heads
4. Jetlag – Severed Heads
5. Contempt – Severed Heads
6. Bad Mood Guy – Severed Heads
7. Dressed in Air – Severed Heads
8. Rabbi Nardoo Flagoon – Severed Heads
9. Heaven Is What Heaven Eats – Severed Heads
10. Mad Dad Mangles a Strad – Severed Heads
Disc 2
1. Bad Mood Guy (Day 1) – Severed Heads
2. Unleash Your Sword (Day 1) – Severed Heads
3. Canine (Day 1) – Severed Heads
4. Nature 10 (Terse) – Severed Heads
5. Contempt (Day 1) – Severed Heads
6. I’ve Always Hated Severed Heads – Severed Heads
7. Hot With Fleas (12″ Remix) – Severed Heads
8. Nation (NYC Mix) – Severed Heads
9. Canine (12″ Remix) – Severed Heads