The group was founded by Richard 23 and Luc Van Acker with Al Jourgensen as their producer. According to Jourgensen, the band got their name after a fight in a Chicago bar in 1983. Jourgensen, Richard 23 and Luc Van Acker celebrated the formation of the new band with a few drinks. The evening then ended up in a brawl, with bar stools being thrown through the establishment's windows. As he was throwing the trio out, the owner, a man Jourgensen recalls was named Dess, shouted, "I'm calling the police! You guys are a bunch of revolting cocks!" The trio subsequently decided to use the name for their band.
Their first release was No Devotion on Wax Trax! Records in 1985. The single was quickly followed by an album, Big Sexy Land (1986), featuring a mix of industrial, hard rock, and EBM with dominating sampling and strong synthesized beats.
Losing Richard 23 due to creative differences, the group's remaining two members were augmented by a rapidly changing set of musicians centered on Chris Connelly (Cocksure, Bells Into Machines, Murder Inc., and Damage Manual), Paul Barker (Ministry, Lead Into Gold, Flowering Blight, and Bells Into Machines), and Bill Rieflin (Ministry, Pigface, R.E.M., and King Crimson), with around twenty others as irregular contributors or guest artists.
The following live album, You Goddamned Son of a Bitch (1988), featured a return to Ministry-like industrial rock - the Big Sexy Land tracks embedded in shouting and noise. This trend continued on Beers, Steers, and Queers (1990), layering sample over sample and pushing ever further into distortion. Linger Ficken' Good (1993) was released by Sire Records and was a tamer affair, most tracks returning to the less layered material. Included was a cover of Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?," also released as a single. A tour was planned but cancelled, and the band quietly came to an end in 1994.
In 2004, Jourgensen and Phildo Owens (Skatenigs, Snow Black) revived the group. They released an album entitled Cocked and Loaded (2006). Caliente (Dark Entries), a cover of sorts of Dark Entries by Bauhaus, with vocalist Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), was featured on the soundtrack to Saw II in 2005.
After assembling a touring line up to open for Ministry on the MasterBaTour of 2006, Jourgensen chose vocalist Josh Bradford (Stayte, Simple Shelter, V.H.S.), keyboardist Clayton Worbeck (Stayte, Simple Shelter), and guitarist Sin Quirin (Society 1, Ministry and ReVamp) as the new full-time members for the Revolting Cocks, now simply being called RevCo. The group recorded Sex-O Olympic-O and officially released the album on March 3, 2009. It was followed up by the last RevCo album Got Cock?, released on April 13, 2010.
In celebration of Wax Trax! Records, the "Wax Trax! Records Retrospectacle: 33 1/3 Year Anniversary" was held from April 15-17, 2011 at the Metro in Chicago, Illinois, United States. As a part of the lineup, Chris Connelly, Paul Barker and Luc Van Acker performed Revolting Cocks songs with various guests. For their performance on the 17th, Richard 23 joined them on stage to sing lead vocals on No Devotion.
In 2014, Chris Connelly and Jason Novak (Acumen Nation, DJ? Acucrack, Iron Lung Corp) formed Cocksure, a project that bridges the gap between Wax Trax! era industrial dance music and the future sounds of mass corruption. The project is very influenced by the early RevCo sound, and has been described as "where the Revolting Cocks left off in 1994."
Previous Members:
Al Jourgensen - production, programming, and various instruments (1985–1993, 2004–2010)
Luc Van Acker - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards (1985–1991, 2006)
Richard 23 - vocals, programming (1985–1986)
Bill Rieflin - drums, keyboards, programming (1986–1993)
Paul Barker - bass, keyboards, programming (1987–1993)
Chris Connelly - vocals, programming (1987–1993)
Phildo Owen - vocals, programming (1989–1991, 2004–2006)
Duane Buford - keyboards (1993)
Josh Bradford - vocals (2006–2010)
Sin Quirin - guitars, bass, keyboards (2006–2010)
Clayton Worbeck - keyboards, bass (2006–2010)
Live Lineups:
--------- 1987 ---------
Al Jourgensen - keyboards, vocals, guitar
Paul Barker - bass, keyboards
Luc Van Acker - guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards
Chris Connelly - vocals, keyboards
Bill Rieflin - drums
--------- 1988 ---------
Al Jourgensen - keyboards, vocals, guitar
Paul Barker - bass, keyboards
Luc Van Acker - guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards
Chris Connelly - vocals, keyboards
Bill Rieflin - drums
Nivek Ogre - vocals
--------- 1990 ---------
Al Jourgensen - guitar, backing vocals
Paul Barker - bass
Chris Connelly - vocals
Phildo Owen - vocals
Jeff Ward - drums
Mark Durante - guitar, backing vocals
Michael Balch - keyboards
Kevin "Doc" Sullivan - keyboards, backing vocals
Trent Reznor - vocals
--------- 1991 ---------
Al Jourgensen - guitar, backing vocals
Paul Barker - bass
Chris Connelly - vocals
Phildo Owen - vocals
Bill Rieflin - drums
Mark Durante - guitar, backing vocals
Michael Balch - keyboards
Luc Van Acker - vocals
--------- 2006 (Ministry's MasterBaTour) ---------
Al Jourgensen - guitar, backing vocals
Phildo Owen - vocals
Luc Van Acker - vocals
Josh Bradford - vocals
Sin Quirin - guitar
Clayton Worbeck - keyboards
Anna K - bass
Seven Antonopoulos - drums
--------- 2009 (Ministry's LubricaTour) ---------
Josh Bradford - vocals
Sin Quirin - guitar
Clayton Worbeck - keyboards, guitar
Murv Douglas - bass
Aaron Rossi - drums
Mike Scaccia - guitar (selected dates)
Al Jourgensen - guitar, backing vocals
--------- 2011 (Wax Trax! Retrospectacle - April 15-17) ---------
Luc Van Acker - vocals
Paul Barker - bass
Chris Connelly - vocals, keyboards
Duane Buford - keyboards
Jamie Duffy - guitar
Dan Brill - drums
Richard 23 - vocals
Discography:
1985 - No Devotion (single)
1986 - Big Sexy Land (LP)
1986 - You Often Forget (single)
1988 - You Goddamned Son of a Bitch (live)
1989 - Stainless Steel Providers (single)
1989 - (Let’s Get) Physical (single)
1990 - Beers, Steers, and Queers (LP)
1991 - Beers, Steers, and Queers (The Remixes) (single)
1993 - Linger Ficken' Good (LP)
1993 - Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? (single)
1994 - Crackin’ Up (single)
2006 - Cocked and Loaded (LP)
2007 - Cocktail Mixxx (remix)
2009 - Sex-O Olympic-O (LP)
2009 - Sex-O Mixxx-O (remix)
2010 - Got Cock? (LP)
2011 - Got Mixxx (remix)
Caliente
Revolting Cocks Lyrics
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I can't stand still long enough
To let myself freak out
Freak out
Hello there fella
Jesus
I'm on the jug again
Invading all those stills
In a hovel of a bed
I will scream in vain
Oh please miss Lane
I'm pissed again
And walking through out city's neon lights
Discussing our whopping sick sequential lines
Wanna carve out our lives
Intangible of price
Trying to find what happened last night
I came upon your room it stuck into my head
We leapt into the bed degrading even lice
You took delight in taking down
My shielded pride
Until exposed my darker side
Puckering up and down those avenues of sin
Too cheap to ride they're worth a try
If only for the old times cold times
Don't go waving your pretentious love
Heaping on loads of complements he concocts every painable technique of exposing
himself to the thrones of eagerly awainting merchant marines
Unaware of his own brooding nature, the ex-biker shreiks back across the infield
"Lay me down and help despite?" take off their clothes and do dirty unspeakable
things to the tiny ones waiting by the fishtank to take a bath that will last one
thousand years
I came into your room it stuck into my head
We leapt in bed degrading even lice
With a little pain
My shielded pride
Until exposed my darker side
Puckering up and down those avenues of sin
Too cheap to ride they're worth a try
If only for the old times
Don't go wasting your pretentious love
Halfway out of a wheelchair the commie ex-patriot art dealer slash pimp shoves cells of
pure feeling into the mouths of innocent prostitutes begging for a better view of the
real videos so that their own skulls evaporating into nothing while men of real wealth
wash their penises in the open sores of one hundred thousand blinded children looking
for a better place to die
To die x 3
I canna bubba lubba groopa wanna getta trubba dubba lubba
lalalala kakakaka buhbuh????
Echo echo echo echo echo echo mother fucker
And just chill bitch
The lyrics of "Calienté" by Revolting Cocks describe a night of debauchery and sin. The singer is in such an altered state that he cannot control his movements, saying "I can't stand still long enough to let myself freak out." He is on drugs and drunk, jumping from bed to bed with various partners, including one named Miss Lane. The singer even encounters a "commie ex-patriot art dealer slash pimp" who is giving prostitutes drugs and watching men wash their genitals in the open sores of children. Despite all of this, the singer seems to be searching for some kind of connection or meaning, declaring that he and a companion are "trying to find what happened last night."
The song paints a picture of hedonism and chaos, capturing the feeling of a wild night out. The lyrics suggest a sense of desperation and hopelessness, as the singer engages in these acts without any real connection or purpose. The use of nonsensical lyrics and echo effects further emphasize the feeling of being lost and disoriented.
Line by Line Meaning
Why... this is unreal
Expressing disbelief about the current situation and how it does not feel real
I can't stand still long enough
Being restless and unable to remain still for extended periods
To let myself freak out
Suppressing emotions to avoid feeling overwhelmed
Freak out
Repeat of previous line emphasizing suppressed emotions
Hello there fella
Casual greeting to someone
Jesus
Exclamation indicating shock, surprise, or frustration
I'm on the jug again
Drinking alcohol again
With sheaths and pills
Consuming condoms and pills, possibly for sexual reasons
Invading all those stills
Taking over all the alcohol and drug supplies
In a hovel of a bed
Being in a dirty, cramped sleeping quarters
I will scream in vain
Yelling out of frustration or pain, but with no one to listen or help
Oh please miss Lane
Calling out for someone, potentially for sex or comfort
I'm pissed again
Being drunk again
And walking through out city's neon lights
Moving through a city and taking in the bright lights
Discussing our whopping sick sequential lines
Talking about the experiences from the night before
Wanna carve out our lives
Desiring to make something of their lives
Intangible of price
Priceless, invaluable
Trying to find what happened last night
Looking back on the events from the previous night and piecing them together
I came upon your room it stuck into my head
Remembering entering someone's room
We leapt into the bed degrading even lice
Jumping into bed without care for hygiene or cleanliness
You took delight in taking down
Enjoying the act of bringing someone down
My shielded pride
Their protected sense of dignity or honor
Until exposed my darker side
Being revealed in a negative or undesirable light
Puckering up and down those avenues of sin
Walking around places or doing things deemed sinful
Too cheap to ride they're worth a try
Willing to try new experiences even if they are not expensive
If only for the old times cold times
Doing something for the sake of nostalgia or memories
Don't go waving your pretentious love
Telling someone to stop flaunting their fake or insincere affection
Heaping on loads of complements he concocts every painable technique of exposing
Someone giving out fake compliments and using manipulative methods to get what they want
himself to the thrones of eagerly awainting merchant marines
Someone who is trying to impress people in power
Unaware of his own brooding nature, the ex-biker shreiks back across the infield
Someone who is unaware of their negative qualities, but is lashing out at others
"Lay me down and help despite?" take off their clothes and do dirty unspeakable
Asking someone to engage in sexual acts without regard for cleanliness or safety
things to the tiny ones waiting by the fishtank to take a bath that will last one thousand years
Describing abusive or perverse actions towards children
Halfway out of a wheelchair the commie ex-patriot art dealer slash pimp shoves cells of
Describing someone who is selling sex and attempting to make a profit
pure feeling into the mouths of innocent prostitutes begging for a better view of the
Taking advantage of someone who is not experienced or informed about the situation
real videos so that their own skulls evaporating into nothing while men of real wealth
Indicating the dangerous and harmful nature of the situation
wash their penises in the open sores of one hundred thousand blinded children looking
Describing a disturbing and inhumane act
for a better place to die
Highlighting the desperation and hopelessness in the situation
And just chill bitch
Casual and somewhat aggressive way of telling someone to calm down
Contributed by Abigail N. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@Pee_Nishi
This... exists? Didn't expect to see a Bauhaus song get covered, of all things.
@scottallan5846
He is art personified...he emits the stuff, one Gibby enjoy
@JeffBecerra1
Yes
@ACABSTUDIOS
Gibby fucking Haynes!
@skawashers
last good album Revolting Cocks ever made
until the reformation with chris, luc , paul, Richard 23
@cristimomir9973
Saw 2 <333
@cashlinart
Pretty rad pretty freaky deaky