BUKKAKE HIT PARADE
Most of the lyrics for one of their songs, “Infant Doe” are printed on the album cover of Bukkake Hit Parade. The story is of the tragic end of a deformed baby and is probably something that was in the newspaper. “Infant Doe” was performed straight, though in their inimitable style, and shows that the Gynecologists had heart. The song is included on a compilation album called The Master Tape, Vol. 2.
The most comprehensive compilation album of the Gynecologists, a CD called Hoosier Psychopaths on Gulcher Records, has 30 songs, including each of their recordings in order; besides the two I have already discussed, they include two cassette-only releases, A Goat . . . You Geek (1984) and Auto-Erotica Asphyxia & Various Moldy Turds (1994). According to John Barge, their latter album included a host of other guest musicians and characters: Dave Death, Bob Tangleweed, Lumpy Repellant, Kevin Drake, Buster Hyman, and Frankie Camaro. (The Bukkake Hit Parade liner notes have several other “special guests” in their list: Ricky Retardo, Mrs. Food, Bejhan Mirhadi, and Tina Chang). There are also a half-dozen unreleased rarities on Hoosier Psychopaths; three show two titles, so there might be nine actually.
The vinyl album by the Gynecologists that I have, Bukkake Hit Parade (2002) – “bukkake” is a term used in Japanese pornography that is appropriate, but I will let you look it up if you wish – has a different name for the drummer, Pippy Longstocking. (Pippi Longstocking is a popular character in children’s literature having unusual pigtails who was created by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren). Despite the apparently comprehensive Hoosier Psychopaths, and unless some of their songs have multiple titles, the 13 cuts on Bukkake Hit Parade include more than a few songs that aren’t on the CD: “Nancy Reagan on Crack”, “M.A.S.H.E.R”, “Dahmer’s Diner”, “Across 110th Street”, and “Sally Struthers’ Tears”.
Bukkake Hit Parade by the Gynecologists is on an Italian label called Rave Up Records; the album is Volume 26 in a long series called American Lost Punk Rock Nuggets that was started in 1999. The Discogs website shows the full list of 79 albums, including 3 that were released in 2015; I guess there are even more to come.
(June 2016)
