Little Baby Buntin' Explained

Little Baby Buntin'
Type:Album
Artist:Killdozer
Cover:Little Baby Buntin.jpg
Released:1987
Genre:Noise rock, post-hardcore[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Length:38:55
Label:Touch and Go
Producer:Steve Marker, Butch Vig
Prev Title:Burl
Prev Year:1986
Next Title:Twelve Point Buck
Next Year:1989

Little Baby Buntin' is the third album by Killdozer, released in 1987 through Touch and Go Records.[6] This album, as well as the earlier E.P. Burl, have a much darker sense of humor (focusing primarily on the bleak aspects of society and people) than any of their other albums.

Track topics include a crazy man who throws his mother down a flight of stairs, a man with a "bubblegum face" who "with a sack on his head is still a sexual beast", a man who ends up blowing himself away in his driveway while trying to murder his wife, etc.

According to an interview with Michael Gerald, The song "The Puppy" is based on real-life events. The song is about a biker gang in Madison called "Satan's Dragons", none of whom actually owned a bike, who ended up murdering one of their initiates, or "puppies". The man ended up making some rude comments about the gang leader's wife and was found naked and mutilated in a field with his penis shoved in his mouth. Michael Gerald is quoted as saying "I naturally imagined them being the type who would set a dog's balls on fire".[7]

This album also includes a cover of Neil Diamond's song "I Am, I Said".

Personnel

Killdozer
Production and additional personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: X-MIST | New or restocked | Mailorder | Independent & Underground vinyl records. X-mist.de.
  2. Web site: Archived copy . 2012-07-21 . 2015-04-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150420040939/http://goqnotes.com/audiophile/audiophile_050705.html . dead .
  3. Web site: The SST Records story. Furious.com.
  4. Web site: Michael Gira - from Uncompromising Swans to Ethereal Angels of Light . 2012-07-21 . 2010-12-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101216150829/http://exclaim.ca/Features/Timeline/michael_gira-from_uncompromising_swans_to_ethereal_angels_of_light/Page/2 . dead .
  5. Web site: Mudhoney: Superfuzzy Memories (An Oral History). Magnetmagazine.com. 20 May 2008.
  6. David . Sprague . Killdozer . . 2007 . May 27, 2013.
  7. Web site: Four Charged In Mutiliation Slaying. Apnews.com. 27 December 2021.