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1992 live album by Big Black
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Pigpile
Live album by
ReleasedOctober 5, 1992 (1992-10-05)
RecordedJuly 24, 1987
VenueClarendon Hotel Ballroom,Hammersmith, London
GenreNoise rock
Length46:02
LabelTouch and Go
Big Black chronology
Songs About Fucking
(1987)		Pigpile
(1992)

Pigpile is alive album by the American musical groupBig Black. It is a recording from July 24, 1987 during thenoise rock band's final European tour, released in 1992 originally as aVHS tape (it was their second video release, following the 'Live' tape on Atavistic Records). It was later issued as an audio-only LP/cassette/CD. The recordings were made at theHammersmith Clarendon ballroom,London. A 5" transparent heavy-duty vinyl record was included away free with all copies of the VHS tape and some copies of the soundtrack album, featuring acover version of theMary Jane Girls song "In My House". Lower-quality recordings from the Hammersmith concert had previously appeared in a different configuration on thebootleg LPTonight We Walked With Giants.

Pigpile coincided with the re-release of Big Black's entire catalog onTouch and Go Records. A limited edition ofPigpile was issued as a box set that included the LP and its insert, a VHS tape of the Hammersmith concert, the "In My House" one-sided 5" single, a poster and a Big Black T-shirt.[1]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarHalf star[2]
Alternative Rock6/10[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStar[4]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography7/10[5]
MusicHound2.5/5[6]
Rolling StoneStarStarStarHalf star[7]
SelectStarStarStarStar[8]

Released five years after Big Black chose to disband at the peak of their artistic and commercial success,Pigpile received concurrent and retrospective reviews ranging from lukewarm to gushing. Writing shortly after the album's release,Spin magazine remarked thatPigpile was "a live album with sound quality unworthy of an audio nut like Albini."[9] Looking back at Albini's career through Big Black and his subsequent band,Rapeman a decade on,Rolling Stone calledPigpile a "fun-but-not-revelatory live album," ranking it a notch below any of the group's studio albums.

Track listing

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  1. "Fists of Love" – 4:14
  2. "L Dopa" – 1:49
  3. "Passing Complexion" – 3:06
  4. "Dead Billy" – 5:12
  5. "Cables" – 3:18
  6. "Bad Penny" – 3:03
  7. "Pavement Saw" – 2:56
  8. "Kerosene" – 6:38
  9. "Steelworker" – 4:52
  10. "Pigeon Kill" – 2:24
  11. "Fish Fry" – 1:55
  12. "Jordan, Minnesota" – 7:05

Album credits

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References

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  1. ^Bashe, Patricia Romanowski; Pareles, Jon; George-Warren, Holly, eds. (2001).Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Touchstone. p. 72.ISBN 978-0-7432-0120-9.
  2. ^Raggett, Ned."allmusic (((Pigpile > Review )))".Allmusic. RetrievedMarch 17, 2010.
  3. ^Thompson, Dave (April 12, 2000)."Alternative rock". San Francisco : Miller Freeman Books; Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Publishing – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011).The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press.ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  5. ^Strong, M. C. (Martin Charles) (April 12, 1999)."The great alternative & indie discography". Edinburgh : Canongate – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^Gary Graff, ed. (1999).MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (2nd ed.). London:Visible Ink Press.ISBN 978-1-5785-9061-2.
  7. ^Brackett, Nathan. "Big Black".The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. November 2004. pg. 69, cited March 17, 2010
  8. ^Perry, Andrew (December 1992). "Big Black:The Hammer Party /Atomizer /Songs About Fucking /Pigpile".Select (31): 86.
  9. ^Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (1995).Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books.ISBN 978-0-679-75574-6.
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