X-Rated Fairy Tales

by Helios Creed

X-Rated Fairy Tales cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Subterranean
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:49
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Acting as the debut solo excursion for the profoundly eccentric Chrome guitarist, this album dives even deeper into sludgy, drug-addled dissonance. 'X-Rated Fairy Tales' assaults the listener with heavily flanged guitar noise, warped tape manipulation, and distorted vocals mumbling paranoid sci-fi poetry. The suffocating, deeply psychedelic record heavily predicted the grimy, industrial-tinged noise rock that would dominate the underground in the following decade.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, noisy, effects-laden, sci-fi, space

Tracklist

  1. The Descent (4:12)
  2. Un-Human Condition (3:34)
  3. Invitation (2:53)
  4. X-Rated Fairy Tales (4:23)
  5. Blood Red (3:02)
  6. Mystery Room (4:02)
  7. Showdown (2:52)
  8. Sex Voodoo Venus (4:33)
  9. Money Man (3:41)
  10. Johnny (4:34)

Credits

  • Mark Duran - bass
  • Bill Roth - drums, synthesizer, percussion, tambourine, maracas
  • John Carlan - synthesizer
  • Elena Holt - backing vocals

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