Alien Sex Fiend reared out of anarchic Soho hothouse The Batcave, the fabulously depraved early ’80s club night started by The Specimen and credited with kick-starting the movement that became diluted into goth. Revolving around horror-punk core couple Nik and Mrs Fiend, the group came on like a UK answer to The Cramps, corrupting their hero Alice Cooper on Youth-produced debut album Who’s Been Sleeping in My Brain and instantly successful singles Ignore The Machine and RIP (Blue Crumb Truck).
Underneath the Addams Family greasepaint, maniacal guffaws and lavatorial horror lurked two fearlessly foraging minds, pioneering the use of drum machines to create their own strain of subterranean synth-rock. Honing it to a fine…
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…art, they rended any goth-a-billy straitjackets asunder on 1984’s Acid Bath, the following year’s Maximum Security (led by classic statement-of-intent I’m Doing Time in a Maximum Security Twilight Home) and 1986’s “It” The Album.
This highly worthwhile and nicely packaged little box concisely corrals the four albums, plus 12” singles, 1986’s rare I Walk the Line EP and their infamous Peel sessions. The great man loved them and so should everybody. Best of all, the Fiends still walk the Earth, undead and rightly proud.
1983 – Who’s Been Sleeping in My Brain?
1. Wish I Woz a Dog
2. Wild Women
3. I’m Not Mad
4. New Christian Music
5. Wigwam Wipe Out
6. I’m Her Frankenstein
7. I Am a Product
8. Ignore the Machine
9. Lips Can’t Go
10. Black Rabbit
Bonus Tracks
11. Under the Thunder (Ignore the Dub)
12. 30 Second Coma
13. R.I.P. (Blue Crumb Truck)
14. New Christian Music (Single version)
1984 – Acid Bath
1. In God We Trust (In Cars You Rust?)
2. Dead and Re-Buried
3. She’s a Killer
4. Hee-Haw (Here Come The Bone People)
5. Smoke My Bones
6. Breakdown and Cry (Lay Down and Die – Goodbye)
7. E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)
8. Attack!!!!!! #2
Bonus Tracks
9. Dead and Buried
10. Attack!!!!!
11. Boneshaker Baby (from BBC session)
12. I Am a Product (Live)
1985 – Maximum Security
1. I’m Doing Time in a Maximum Security Twilight Home
2. Mine’s Full of Maggots
3. Do You Sleep
4. In and Out of My Mind
5. Spies
6. Fly in the Ointment
7. Seconds to Nowhere
8. The Beaver Destroys Forests
9. Do You Sleep (Version)
10. Depravity Lane (Think I’ll Take a Trip…)
Bonus Tracks
11. Ignore the Machine (Electrode Mix)
12. Attack!!!!(Live at The BBC)
13. Dead and Buried (Live at The BBC)
14. Hee-Haw (Live at The BBC)
15. Ignore The Machine (Live at The BBC)
1986 – “It” The Album
1. Smells Like…
2. Manic Depression
3. Believe It Or Not
4. April Showers / Wop-Bop
5. Get Into It
6. Lesson One
7. Do It Right
8. To Be Continued…
Bonus Tracks
9. Buggin’ Me
10. I Walk the Line
11. Here She Comes
12. Can’t Stop Smoking
13. In God We Trust (Live at The BBC)
14. E.S.T. (Live at The BBC)