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Total Art Breakdown

by Phÿcus

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Extreme Violence (Total Art Breakdown) 04:43
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Be My Naber (Total Art Breakdown) 03:53
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Good Morning, Garbage Chute (Total Art Breakdown) 06:22
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Mistress Lisa`s Dominant Tanning Salon (Total Art Breakdown) 05:34
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Sewer Sucker (Total Art Breakdown) 04:49
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Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By... (Total Art Breakdown) 07:02
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...And We`re Back! (Total Art Breakdown) 04:45
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Like A Prayer (Total Art Breakdown) 05:09
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Sensitive Artist / I Eat Art (Total Art Breakdown) 05:00
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Rock n Roll (Total Art Breakdown) 05:26
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Don`t Worry (Total Art Breakdown) 05:39
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Total Art Breakdown

Recorded at NSCAD Sculpture Studio, April 19, 1989

If you`re checking out only one early Phycus recording, this is the one!
Original-era Phycus at the height of their powers. This is the only recording from that era where you can properly hear the guitar and metal. And the metal was LOUD that nigt. The anvil was especially painful! Tracks 1 to 9 were recorded on a stereo mic, and tracks 10 and 11 were taken from the video. The stereo room recording works especially well on "Technical Difficulties". It`s like you`re actually there, at NSCAD, 1989, waiting for the band to get their stupid amp fixed.
This was a "cool" gig. Pretty much every hipster in Halifax would have been there.Phycus for sure bent a few heads. This may in fact have been the opening salvo of the Halifax Pop Explosion that reached public awareness a couple years after.

Line up:
SPK-553 - Vocals (1,4,7,9,10), Metal
Bruce X - Vocals (5, 9), Guitar, Metal
Brian Damage - Vocals (2,3,9), Casio CZ-1000
Scott Righteous - Drums

Set List :
01 Extreme Violence
02 Be My Naber
03 Good Morning, Garbage Chute
04 Mistress Lisa`s Dominant Tanning Salon
05 Sewer Sucker
06 Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By...
07 ...And We`re Back!
08 Like A Prayer
09 Sensitive Artist - I Eat Art
10 Rock n Roll
11 Don`t Worry

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released April 19, 1989

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Phÿcus Montreal, Québec

Phÿcus was a Canadian industrial / experimental band that existed from 1988 to 2000. Phÿcus transformed from the traditional band format into a network that included over 50 contributors in a dozen locales, with Montreal as its centre of operations. Phÿcus' success was minimal, but their output was prodigious. Now in 2020, Phÿcus is back with a new release, "CrowleyWood". ... more

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