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"60 second bursts of chaotic rock 'n' roll that barbarize whole histories of freakout style, from free jazz through classic hardcore, boogie, blues, Black Flag, Germs, most explicitly through Beefheart, but all hyper-condensed into ultra-kranky riffs that Orcutt plays at hallucinatory speed, compressing Zoot Horn Rollo style avant confusion into lighting runs and metallic two note knock-outs. Hoyos's style is so primitive that it's wildly avantgarde, with an instinctive feel for time that confounds the most advanced improvisatory strategies with the most hysterical. And her vocals are post-Yoko in the truest sense, not directly informed by her but sharing the same spontaneous energy and a-musical appeal, sometimes breaking from songs completely to expand on barely articulated vocal rants and fever pitched bouts of screaming. The whole group existed in a zone that was constantly beyond technique. The arc of their career was perfect, the mission truly accomplished, and all that's left is this amazing series of recordings, a body of work that has had a disproportionate effect on the minds, if rarely the actual sound of the underground."— David Keenan , The Wire, December 2008

TRACK LISTING

1. Drop The Bomb 
2. Sex Problem 
3. Ice Cream Man 
4. For Emil 
5. Chuck 
6. Smash The Mirror
7. No Hey... 
8. New Song
9. Lost 
10. Peace of my Ass 
11. Mandolin 
12. Sick Again 
13. Velvet Pussy 
14. MS20 
15. Mic Check 
16. Stop It 
17. Vox Wah 
18. Sex Problem (Live) 
19. Drop The Bomb (Live) 
20. Ice Cream Man (Live) 
21. Chuck (Live) 
22. No Hey (Live)
23. Stop (Live)
24. Smash The Mirror (Live) 
25. Chuck (Live) 
26. Lost (Live)
27. For Emil (Live) 
28. Sex Problem (Live) 
29. Mandolin (Live) 
30. Showroom Dummies (Live) 
31. Orphans (Live)
32. Live at Salon Zwerge 
33. Ice Cream Man 
34. Stop 
35. Smash The Mirror 
36. Drop the Bomb 
37. Chuck! 
38. Lost 
39. Mandolin
40. Sex Problem
41. Smash the Mirror 
42. Smash the Mirror