Public Castration Is A Good Idea (reissue) vinyl

Swans are never without their hot takes, whether they take the form of album titles or the music itself. The amusingly-named live album 'Public Castration Is A Good Idea' is one such example. First released in 1986 as the result of a rather speedy set of edited live takes of the band's performances of tracks from their prior albums 'Greed' and 'Holy Money' in London, the album is an oddball in that it at first only received a semi-official release via the experimental electronic and post-punk label Some Bizarre. This new edition from Mute Records unfortunately doesn't come with the original betamax and VHS tour video 'A Long Slow Screw', but it does more or less provide yet another a menacing portal to Swans' doomy, apocalyptic sonic universe.