Stinkfist (EP) explained

Stinkfist
Type:	ep
Artist:	Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch
Cover:	Ruin_Lunch_Stinkfist.jpg
Released:	1987
Recorded:	Eldorado, Los Angeles (April 1, 1986) and B.C., New York (Dec 12–13, 1987)
Genre:	Industrial
Length:	20:39
Label:	Widowspeak
Producer:	Clint Ruin
Chronology:	J. G. Thirlwell
Prev Title:	Ramrod
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	Thaw
Next Year:	1988

Stinkfist is a collaborative EP by Clint Ruin (a.k.a. J. G. Thirlwell) and Lydia Lunch. This outing from the ex-Immaculate Consumptive bandmates was originally released as a 12" in 1987 on Lunch's Widowspeak label.

Content

The album cover shows Lunch and Ruin—lovers at the time—in a coital embrace.

Release

Stinkfist was released in 1987 by record label Widowspeak. A 1989 CD version added "The Crumb", a single by Lunch and Sonic Youth leader Thurston Moore.

Reception

Trouser Press wrote "Stinkfist could be the first joint effort [Lydia Lunch] doesn't dominate [...] Lots of noise and energy but nothing new, especially for the already Foetusized."^[1]

Personnel and production

"Stinkfist" and "Son of Stink":

• Cliff Martinez – drums, metal
• DJ Bonebrake – drums, metal
• Neil – drums, metal
• Spit – drums, metal
• Tom Surgal – metal
• Roli Mosimann – timbales, engineering
• Lydia Lunch – voices, metal
• Clint Ruin – voices, metal
• Randy Burns – engineering
• Hahn Rowe – engineering

"Meltdown Oratorio":

• Lydia Lunch – voices
• Clint Ruin – instruments
• Martin Bisi – engineering

"The Crumb":

• Thurston Moore – guitars, voice
• Lydia Lunch – voice
• Clint Ruin – loops, treatments, production
• Bass/drums - "grafted and transplanted from eternity." Bass and drums are reworked from Lydia Lunch's "Dead in the Head" on her Honeymoon in Red album. Though uncredited, the original performance is by Ruin.
• Martin Bisi – engineering

External links

• • Stinkfist at foetus.org

Notes and References

1. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Lydia Lunch . Payes . Robert . Sheridan . David . Grant . Steven . Robbins . Ira . . July 21, 2016.
2. Book: Lazell, Barry . Indie Hits 1980-1989 . Cherry Red Books . 1997 . September 5, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100105083758/http://cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/l.htm . January 5, 2010 .