GORIES - The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88 LP metal - compilation and liner notes

- compilation and liner notes by Alec Palao

Australia and San Francisco

not just as a simple means of capturing Wire playing

village church bells

The fresh context of Extermination Nights in the Sixth City gives the anthology's two Pere Ubu selections—"Heart of Darkness" and "Final Solution"

GORIES - The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88 LP metal - compilation and liner notesThe Gories began in the cultural vacuum of Detroit in 1986. With humble beginnings at a community concert series through a tumultuous end on their 1992 European tour, this is a band whose influence has far outstretched the ground they covered. Rooted in the primal, primitive underpinnings of 50's rhythm and blues and unhinged 60s garage punk, the sound they came to was wholly their own. Over two years in the making, Third Man collectively feels like a