F.S.O. Explained

F.S.O.
Cover:FSO_by_Regurgitator.png
Type:single
Artist:Regurgitator
Album:Tu-Plang
Released:February 1996
Recorded:1995
Label:Warner Music Australasia
Producer:Magoo, Regurgitator
Prev Title:Blubber Boy
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:Kong Foo Sing
Next Year:1996

"F.S.O." (abbreviation of Fuck Shit Off) is a song by Australian rock band Regurgitator. The song was released in February 1996 as the band's first commercially released single and first single from the band's debut studio album Tu-Plang. The single peaked at number 51 in Australia.

Details

Ben Ely said, "Quan wrote this about his sister-in-law and how she got married to this guy who turned out to be a brute and was violent with her. This song is his anger at the situation. I love how it sounds like an angry song, though it's a song about not tolerating someone else's anger."

Quan Yeomans said, "I was never particularly thrilled with my vocals on this one, but it has a punk urgency and ugliness about it that is apt for the idea behind it."[1]

Reception

Andrew Stafford, in Pig City, called it "more statement than single. Ninety-three seconds of blistering hardcore buried in the middle of 18 minutes of feedback. Many fans returned or sold their copies, unsure what exactly they'd spent their money on."[2]

Charts

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Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[3] 51

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Retrospective track-by-track: Regurgitator, Tu-Plang. The Music Network . 6 September 2012. 10 October 2019 .
  2. Book: . 278 . 2016 . . 9780702235610. Andrew Stafford .
  3. 232.