The Big Yeah was published by Mike Greenlees and Michelle Thomas. Mike was the drummer for Tar in the '90s. They had a few records on Touch and Go. He sent me some of their early 7"'s and at the time I thought they were boss - I'll try and dig them up sometime for Vinyl Mine. Michelle was his girlfriend and she wrote way original reviews. My fave is when she said she wished the singer of Rifle Sport was a piece of lint so she could fling it off her clothes and listen to the band for the rest of her life.
As you can see, Big Yeah scored a cover from Dan Clowes - this was before he did Ghost World and got all famous in the cult comics world. BY published in a half-size format and like most zines used very small type, shrunken via the xerox machine and often hard to read. This made what would normally be a 14 page fanzine into a 28 page 'zine. But you needed one of those little jeweler's eyepieces to read it.
This issue had an interview with The Outnumbered (who?), tons of record reviews, fanzine reviews and most importantly a post-European tour interview with Big Black where they talk about the tour, playing with Killing Joke, how Simon Bonney was a sorry excuse for a roadie, the Headache EP and hint that they are breaking up. Oh yeah, the working title for Songs About Fucking was Scooter Trash. Anyway, it was great enuf for me to reprint below. 'joy...
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Thanks for this - God, the idea of Adrian Sherwood producing Songs about Fucking is plain gross! Talk about lucky escapes...
I like how how Albini compared the lyrics of BB songs to the little plastic figurine ontop of a big three-tiered wedding cake. Instead, methinks they were the big burning cross on top of a cupcake. It wasn't until Shellac that the lyrics really assumed the metaphor he was going for...
The Outnumbered were a band out of Champaign, IL featuring Jon Ginoli who went on to found Pansy Division
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