Part-Time Whore - Home (1999 Battle Born Records)

Well, you'd think I'd have a lot more time for this lately, but that hasn't been the case. Working from home has somehow resulted in more work, but hopefully as I learn to do this more efficiently, I'll have more time to post stuff.

We're gonna get back in the swing of things with a Bakla-inspired post, as I happened to meet Mr. Bakla at a D4 show during this blog's unplanned hiatus. 

So Part-Time Whore. Las Vegas band started by Nate from from Boba Fett Youth. Yeah, not the most woke name ever, but it was the 90's, man. Hard to pin down style-wise. Gruff, screamy vocals, musically not too fast, kinda jagged at times. Political in a scattershot way - personal politics, scene politics, politics politics, lots of Chomsky references in the liner notes (it was the 90's, man).  In a lot of ways it reminds me of Positive State (that's a good thing). Some real strong stuff on here, I'm especially partial to "Ultimately It's All About Fucking".

PTW's singer, Chad, has a blog page that gives the the backstory on the band and this release. The mp3's posted there somehow survived the great MediaFire apocalypse of 2011, but they sound a little tinny to me. So I posted my LP rip. Apparently this was originally recorded to an 8-track cassette so it was never going to sound all that great (tape hiss + clicks and pops, yay), and there is like ZERO lead-in time on Side A or Side B, which I'm sure was intentional. So that abrupt start on track 1 and 6 is just how it has to be.

Be safe, y'all.

1. It Is To Laugh
2. This Is It (The Song That Should Have Changed The World)
3. I Haven't Got The Courage To Care
4. If Only
5. Communication Is A Weapon
6. You (Whoever That May Be)
7. Kevin Kid
8. Scream
9. Outside Of Towm
10. Ultimately It's All About Fucking?!
11. Technocracy
12. Giant Slug

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