Orgy Of The Undead - 'Love Is Dead' LP

It is now time to return to the strange and distant world of Orgy of the Undead, and their only full-length album: ‘Love Is Dead’. It followed the ‘Don’t Just Lie There, Say Something’ EP by oh, 9 months or something, prompted by the imminent departure of the two guitarists for England and Japan. Once again the recording was a patchwork process, this time using a laptop instead of a four-track (losing some lo-fi charm in the process).

The drummer had quit after being unable to keep time while drunk (MILDLY drunk, not even fully wasted ha!) and the bass player had been unfairly booted for reasons not really based in 'reality', resulting in much of the album being recorded by the two guitarists. The plug was pulled on them not once, not twice but thrice at the BASS PLAYER'S OWN PARTY whilst torturing his elderly family members with a 10 minute dirge revolving around the joys of man/fish love. Strange days indeed, to strike a 60's rock biography-like tone.

Anyhoo, back to the music. On 'Love is Dead' the uber-juvenile garage punk of ‘D.J.L.T, S.S’ is largely gone, to be replaced by strange and messy interpretations of post-punk, noise punk and garage rock. Barry White’s Love Orchestra is sampled on the opening track, the drummer unleashes his debut Lou Reed vocal impersonation on ‘Windmills’, Drive Like Jehu is placed on a pedestal for ‘Papercut’ and the schizoid ‘Fashion’ is subjected to a 2-step UK garage remix by the previously mentioned Bobby Scissors. The weirdness comes to a close with a live version of the O.O.T.U anthem ‘Fat Bloated Fuck’ from the drummer’s going-away party, which basically concluded the Orgy of the Undead tale.

In the months before this final gig half the band had morphed into The Betty Ford Experience, whose sole EP (a winning semi-return to the trashier earlier style of OOTU) will be uploaded when I find it.

After finishing the album and playing the final gig as Orgy Of The Undead/The Betty Ford Experience the four members of O.O.T.U split Perth for the exotic locales of Japan, London and....Queensland. They would later resurface in bands like Blah Blah and the Blah Blah's, Not Important and Who Really Cares.

You can download ‘Love Is Dead’ as a whole album zip file at www.doddrell.com/mp3.

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