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Songs About Fucking by Big Black
Songs About Fucking is an album by Big Black, released in 1987. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Colombian Necktie”, on 1 list with a best position of #18.
Songs About Fucking, Big Black's second and last studio album, came out on Touch and Go on September 10, 1987, and the band from Evanston, Illinois, went out swinging a crowbar. Steve Albini sang, played guitar and programmed the drum machine, Santiago Durango played guitar and Dave Riley played bass, and Albini produced it himself. It was their parting shot.
The sound is pure abrasion: clanking, serrated guitars grinding against the mechanical thud of a drum machine, a noise-rock racket that pointed straight at industrial rock. The lyrics dive headlong into the ugliest corners of human behavior, less to celebrate than to rub your face in them. There's even a Kraftwerk cover, "The Model", remixed from their recent single, and the CD tacked on the flip side, a go at Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore". "Colombian Necktie" and "L Dopa" are here too. Pigpile followed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Songs About Fucking on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombian Necktie | 1 | #18 | – | 1987 | |
| 2 | L Dopa | 1 | #42 | – | 1987 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.