Happiness is Dry Pants

7" released in 1987 on Chemical Imbalance (CI002)

Okay compilation of arty noise stuff. The Big Black track is a lot less aggressive than Songs About Fucking, which is probably why it was cut.

Distributed free with an issue of Chemical Imbalance zine. I've heard that fifty copies were numbered and came in a xeroxed, hand colored sleeve, but my copy is unnumbered, and legit. I seriously doubt there were two different versions of the colored sleeve though...just another mystery, I guess.

Copies of the (unsleeved) 7" turn up all the time, but I have yet to find anyone with the zine. Such is life, I guess.

Burning Indian Wife was recorded at Southern Studios with the Happy Otter side of Songs About Fucking and Mike McGonigal* says it's "basically a reject, but good enough for us".

*Mike McGonigal ran Chemical Imbalance zine, and was the subject of Byron Coley's contribution to the Headache/Heartbeat package. He said that it was, in retrospect, the highest compliment he'd ever been paid, and also mentioned that Steve Albini wrote "excellent hate mail". Read a feature on him here.

reviews:

YO LA TENGO, BIG BLACK and KILSLUG present one track each for pretentious and depressed psuedo intellectuals, and MOVING TARGETS kill ass as usual in their alloted space. Comes with issue #5 of Chemical Imbalance.
--Tim Yohannon, MRR 50