It is their debut full-length album as all previous releases are EPs. The LP is accompanied by liner notes that explain the stories behind many of the songs. The album reached number 197 in the Billboard Hot 200 chart. The album cover is inspired by the Warner Bros. Cartoons art of animator Chuck Jones.
The most popular song on the album and possibly by Big Black, "Kerosene", has a shaky guitar line that gives it an odd appeal and a slower rhythm than most Big Black songs. Read Full BioIt is their debut full-length album as all previous releases are EPs. The LP is accompanied by liner notes that explain the stories behind many of the songs. The album reached number 197 in the Billboard Hot 200 chart. The album cover is inspired by the Warner Bros. Cartoons art of animator Chuck Jones.
The most popular song on the album and possibly by Big Black, "Kerosene", has a shaky guitar line that gives it an odd appeal and a slower rhythm than most Big Black songs. It discusses being bored and then as a result wanting to be set on fire. Violent lyrics such as these occur throughout Big Black's entire discography.
In the year after Atomizer's release, Big Black recorded their 4-song Headache EP and released it with a sticker that bore the words, "Warning! Not as good as Atomizer, so don't get your hopes up, cheese." The same sticker also appeared on Sonic Youth's EP Master=Dik.
Atomizer was compiled on Compact Disc, along with the Headache EP and "Heartbeat" single, as The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape, which omitted the instrumental "Strange Things", as well as the artwork and liner notes from the original records. Instead, Steve Albini expressed his general dislike for the CD format in the CD's liner notes, saying, "This compact disc, compiled to exploit those of you gullible enough to own the bastardly first generation digital music system, contains all-analog masters. Compact discs are quite durable, this being their only advantage over real music media. You should take every opportunity to scratch them, fingerprint them, and eat egg and bacon sandwiches off them. Don't worry about their longevity, as Philips will pronounce them obsolete when the next phase of the market-squeezing technology bonanza begins.
The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Steve Albini - guitar, vocals, drum machine programming
Santiago Durango - guitar
Dave Riley - bass guitar
Iain Burgess - recording engineer
Big Black always credited Roland along with the band's members, though Roland is a brand of drum machine and not an actual person.
The most popular song on the album and possibly by Big Black, "Kerosene", has a shaky guitar line that gives it an odd appeal and a slower rhythm than most Big Black songs. Read Full BioIt is their debut full-length album as all previous releases are EPs. The LP is accompanied by liner notes that explain the stories behind many of the songs. The album reached number 197 in the Billboard Hot 200 chart. The album cover is inspired by the Warner Bros. Cartoons art of animator Chuck Jones.
The most popular song on the album and possibly by Big Black, "Kerosene", has a shaky guitar line that gives it an odd appeal and a slower rhythm than most Big Black songs. It discusses being bored and then as a result wanting to be set on fire. Violent lyrics such as these occur throughout Big Black's entire discography.
In the year after Atomizer's release, Big Black recorded their 4-song Headache EP and released it with a sticker that bore the words, "Warning! Not as good as Atomizer, so don't get your hopes up, cheese." The same sticker also appeared on Sonic Youth's EP Master=Dik.
Atomizer was compiled on Compact Disc, along with the Headache EP and "Heartbeat" single, as The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape, which omitted the instrumental "Strange Things", as well as the artwork and liner notes from the original records. Instead, Steve Albini expressed his general dislike for the CD format in the CD's liner notes, saying, "This compact disc, compiled to exploit those of you gullible enough to own the bastardly first generation digital music system, contains all-analog masters. Compact discs are quite durable, this being their only advantage over real music media. You should take every opportunity to scratch them, fingerprint them, and eat egg and bacon sandwiches off them. Don't worry about their longevity, as Philips will pronounce them obsolete when the next phase of the market-squeezing technology bonanza begins.
The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Steve Albini - guitar, vocals, drum machine programming
Santiago Durango - guitar
Dave Riley - bass guitar
Iain Burgess - recording engineer
Big Black always credited Roland along with the band's members, though Roland is a brand of drum machine and not an actual person.
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Jordan Minnesota
Big Black Lyrics
This is Jordan, we do what we like
This is Jordan, we do what we like
Stay with me, my five year old
Stay with me, play hide and seek
Stay with me, my five year old
This is Jordan, we do what we like
And this will stay with you until you die
And this will stay with you until you die
And I will stay with you until you die
And this is Jordan, we do what we like
And this will stay with you until you die
And this will stay with you until you die
This will stay with you until you die
And I will stay with you until you die
Suck daddy, suck daddy, suck daddy
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Thomas Cabral
AND THIS WILL STAY WITH YOU UNTIL YOU DIE
AND THIS WILL STAY WITH YOU UNTIL YOU DIE
THIS WILL STAY WITH YOU UNTIL YOU DIE
AND I WILL STAY WITH YOU UNTIL YOU DIE
I love Big Black so much... this song gives me chills EVERY FUCKING TIME.
j1nt3tsu
thanks god for big black. summed up the effect of child abuse so masterfully "I will stay with you until you die"
Popeye Regina
this is demon exorcisin music! the catharsis needed by victims of abuse! his aim is true!
Lee Etchells
@John Marks thanks I always wondered what the song was about back in the day.
There was a case in North England about satanic child abuse ring in 80s.That also was found to be untrue.
That also was
John Marks
Philip Archer It’s about a pedophile ring in Jordan, Minnesota. It turned out that the story was fake, but it was widely reported in the media.
Philip Archer
j1nt3tsu I had not read that into the Lyrics... but, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a song about some paedophile, somewhere in America... (Or anywhere).
Randy Herrera
HEELLL YES FUCK YES THIS IS HARDER,FASTER & DARKER than MANSON OR ROB ZOMBIE why have they been forgotten in the majority of listeners of music?
Garjo
Alabama's theme song if Roy Moore gets elected.
Garjo
He didn't. Thank god!
Dan Williams
Absolutely terrifying. Raw form anger. Classic.