He's a Whore / the Model

7" released in 1987 on Touch and Go (TG23), Blast First (BFFP24)

Big Black stuff that doesn't make you want to kill yourself (or your neighbors)! Two covers, Cheap Trick and Kraftwerk, with the 7" sleeve imitating the covers of both of the original singles. Both songs appear on the CD version of Songs About Fucking, but only the Model is on the LP.

reviews:

SEX, ANOREXIA AND COURAGE
BIG BLACK
THE MODEL/HE'S A WHORE (Blast First)

STILL afflicted but over, Big Black's final tribute to tribulations arrives pragmatically packaged in midnight blue humour. They end apparently swiping at the business they've done so much to negate, the last laugh's targetted, for the first time, outwards, at icons. We never thought of them as iconoclasts; there's too much self-loathing and inadequacy there to believe they believe there's anything worth hating outside. Right or wrong it's hardly important. If, as we determine, Big Black are body neurosis made sonic, anorexia as audio, then Kraftwerk's "Model" is a particularly sick trick with which to end their subliminal revolution. If it is just a joke then David Lynch is probably the only one it'll get a belly-laugh from. We smiled weakly, felt the strength run from us, decided the world wasn't small enough for Big Black and made "The Model" single of the week.

The puds do it again. Maybe a little wimpy and too much concept oriented (imitation cover art?) for these modern crusaders, but the chuckle the cover delivers is worth your two and a quarter alone. Gosh, they really do resemble Kraftwerk. Boy, do these homeboys look like Cheap Trick.
--Thomas, Ink Disease 13