Come Visit The Big Bigot Deluxe

by Severed Heads

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William Manganaro Some of the most influential music and album of my life. It was the one release that peaked my interest in electronic music that stood with me to this day. Always been a BIG fan of Severed Heads till the day I die ! Favorite track: Twenty Deadly Diseases (Extended Mix).

John Mentzer Ever have a nightmare you enjoyed? You kept thinking about it? You had the dream again and again? It should frighten and repulse you but like a character in a Lovecraft story you are captured by the mystery and must press on.

That is what Severed Heads is for me! Favorite track: Legion.

Psychoreal Pioneers of Australian industrial music. Must have album. Favorite track: Harold and Cindy Hospital.

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Dark Entries is proud to present the deluxe 2xLP reissue of ‘Come Visit The Big Bigot’ by Severed Heads, oone of the longest surviving bands to emerge from the Australian post-punk independent music scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, incorporating elements of ‘industrial’ noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. After many line-up changes featuring Garry Bradbury and psychedelic guitarist Simon Knuckey, Severed Heads was the vehicle for composer Tom Ellard.

‘Come Visit The Big Bigot’ was Severed Heads’ first record to be released commercially simultaneously in Australia, North America and Europe in 1986. It was a prime period for this 'industrial dance music' and Bigot was a respected album that did well from the tour they did with Skinny Puppy that same year. Quite a few people still define the band by this period. ‘Come Visit The Big Bigot’ was made on a Fostex 16 track recorder in Tom’s bedroom, employing the newly acquired AKAI S612 sampler and Roland SH-101 to create most of the drum sounds. The album signaled a new direction, flirting with the dance floor and the pop song. Presenting the Heads at their most cohesive, while retaining their distinctive musical stamp. Tom’s vocals are harmonized, slowed down, sped up, run through fuzz boxes, backwards, drum machine rolls, sampled guitars, horn sections, and voices but with a subversive rather than malevolent intention. Tape loops are more subtle and define their own space and texture. Like the original Australian version of the album, we’ve included a bonus disc featuring three extended remixes by Sydney DJ Robert Racic (who produced the edited 7” version of “Petrol” we reissued in 2015), plus three B-sides from the ‘Twenty Deadly Diseases’12” and two additional tracks from the same recording sessions.

All songs have been remastered by Tom Ellard, who worked very slowly and methodically with much better equipment over two years, letting each track have its own breath. Final vinyl EQ and lacquer cutting by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in a gatefold jacket featuring brightly colored, distorted, VHS graphics output by Stephen Jones' video synthesizer, from the first vinyl edition on Ink Records with layout by Eloise Leigh. Inside the gatefold are liner notes, lyrics and song meanings by Tom Ellard plus an 3-page booklet with photos, interviews and press clippings from the period. “On ‘Bigot’ we finally achieved the sound of a watermelon thrown out of a top story window and smashing, recorded from the inside” Tom Ellard, 1986

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	1.	Come Visit The Big Bigot 03:19
	2.	Twenty Deadly Diseases 03:36
	3.	Army 03:43
	4.	Phantasized Persecutory Breast 03:03
	5.	Casey's Ion 03:02
	6.	Propellor 05:35
	7.	Confidence 06:03
	8.	Sam Loves You 02:57
	9.	Strange Brew 04:38
	10.	Harold and Cindy Hospital 02:53
	11.	Legion 04:57
	12.	Harold And Cindy Hospital (Casualty Mix) 06:49
	13.	Twenty Deadly Diseases (Extended Mix) 06:30
	14.	Disease 22 03:56
	15.	Disease 23 03:48
	16.	Son Of 03:50
	17.	George The Animal 04:00
	18.	Nature 10 03:13
	19.	Propellor Three (Kamikazee Mix) 08:02

about

Dark Entries is proud to present the deluxe 2xLP reissue of ‘Come Visit The Big Bigot’ by Severed Heads, oone of the longest surviving bands to emerge from the Australian post-punk independent music scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, incorporating elements of ‘industrial’ noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. After many line-up changes featuring Garry Bradbury and psychedelic guitarist Simon Knuckey, Severed Heads was the vehicle for composer Tom Ellard.

‘Come Visit The Big Bigot’ was Severed Heads’ first record to be released commercially simultaneously in Australia, North America and Europe in 1986. It was a prime period for this 'industrial dance music' and Bigot was a respected album that did well from the tour they did with Skinny Puppy that same year. Quite a few people still define the band by this period. ‘Come Visit The Big Bigot’ was made on a Fostex 16 track recorder in Tom’s bedroom, employing the newly acquired AKAI S612 sampler and Roland SH-101 to create most of the drum sounds. The album signaled a new direction, flirting with the dance floor and the pop song. Presenting the Heads at their most cohesive, while retaining their distinctive musical stamp. Tom’s vocals are harmonized, slowed down, sped up, run through fuzz boxes, backwards, drum machine rolls, sampled guitars, horn sections, and voices but with a subversive rather than malevolent intention. Tape loops are more subtle and define their own space and texture. Like the original Australian version of the album, we’ve included a bonus disc featuring three extended remixes by Sydney DJ Robert Racic (who produced the edited 7” version of “Petrol” we reissued in 2015), plus three B-sides from the ‘Twenty Deadly Diseases’12” and two additional tracks from the same recording sessions.

All songs have been remastered by Tom Ellard, who worked very slowly and methodically with much better equipment over two years, letting each track have its own breath. Final vinyl EQ and lacquer cutting by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in a gatefold jacket featuring brightly colored, distorted, VHS graphics output by Stephen Jones' video synthesizer, from the first vinyl edition on Ink Records with layout by Eloise Leigh. Inside the gatefold are liner notes, lyrics and song meanings by Tom Ellard plus an 3-page booklet with photos, interviews and press clippings from the period. “On ‘Bigot’ we finally achieved the sound of a watermelon thrown out of a top story window and smashing, recorded from the inside” Tom Ellard, 1986

credits

released September 20, 2017

Severed Heads in 1986
Tom Ellard: Voice, Bass, Keyboards, Sound Guns
Stephen R Jones: Video
Topsy Keevil: Choir Control
Oboreta Kyoji: Drums, Computer
20 Deadly Diseases and Harold And Cindy 12 inchers by Robert Racic.
Strange Brew - Clapton/Pappalardi
Originally released by Voliton on September 1, 1986
Resurfaced by Tom Ellard 2009-2017
Remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios 2017
Layout Production: Eloise Leigh
Play loud, or not at all.