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Goat is the second studio album by The Jesus Lizard, released in 1991. The album was produced by Steve Albini. Its cover art, by bassist David Wm. Sims, at first glance resembles a flame, but is actually a topless woman with a close-up image of nails projected onto her body. The rear of the album, and several panels of the enclosed CD booklet include similar pictures of the same naked woman, with different images projected onto her body. In 2003, Goat was ranked as the 38th best album of the 1990s by the online magazine Pitchfork.
Fantastic, lean noise rock album. It's insane that this album came out in 1991, it feels so ahead of its time. It still sound fresh today.
Hell yeah, awesome add. Discovered this LP last summer and have had it in some sort of rotation since, given it feels stunningly fresh for an album released in the 90s. Between the untamed vocals, rock-solid drum and bass, and wiry technical guitar, this feels like the original incarnation of Daughters or other recent mathcore bands two decades ahead of time. Lots to dig into from a technical perspective, but what matters here is the overall sweaty, animalistic feel that exists alongside an overwhelming sense of control, two opposites building on and tearing into each other. The result is an absolutely wild, feral ride that's become hard to find in rock music nowadays, and one I don't mind returning to again and again (especially as a native Texan, Austin represent).
This album was released exactly a week after I was born. Musically, this album is post-hardcore with some experimental and noise aspects thrown in as well. It’s not as melodic or catchy as grunge, but it’s still accessible. I found it to be a great and important listen.
The music is good, the voice doesn't seem to me to be enough and he has the type of speaker rather than an interpreter. The voice is simply "unreadable." 2.5 stars
Great inclusion! One of the best records of the 90s.
That Albini-sound is basically the sound of my youth. Those instantly recognizable drums and distorted guitars. If it's Albini-produced it usually ends up pretty high on my enjoyment-meter. Jesus Lizard is no exception although I always struggle to get through an entire album in one sitting. They have all elements that I like in a heavy rock band, but deliver it with such a heavy punch that I end up on the ropes, holding on for dear life. But from time to time I can handle and actually like this kind of sonic-ass-kicking. "Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy, I like him just fine.....But he's a mouth breather" 🤘
I'm a sucker for interesting cover art. Added a half star just for that. Neat noise rock artists from Austin, TX. I had heard of them, but never listened to an entire album of theirs. This was pretty good, I must admit. 3.5/5, but rounding up to a 4 due to solid cover art.
Deserves a place on the list, and could easily take the place of a Britpop album without anyone noticing.
Somewhat notorious band I've been hearing about for years but never really listened to. Seemed like pretty straightforward hard-core kinda dirt bag rock. Not completely my cup of tea but I didn't mind it at all.
A fine little rocker. Slides into rockabilly at times (in a good way). Vocals not strong but they don't need to be. Sounds like 1991.
Whatever else there is to say about Goat, the "there comes" is rendered as literally as it possibly can be in stereo. The band's affect is rather blunt, though vocal insanity and hypnotic melody lines are also in evidence. Bonus tracks contribute to one evaluation and not another: The Jesus Lizard seems to track back over the pop songs in their midst before releasing music full-formed. The band sounds fascinating; This particular record is less-favored by my snap judgement.
Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Seasick, Karpis
No frills, hard rocking, strategically noisy. I'm not a huge fan of the whole "low in the mix" approach to the vocals, and it's probably for the best if you don't try to decipher the lyrics. But I still enjoyed this quite a bit, and would listen again. Thanks for recommending it. Fave Songs: Rodeo in Joliet, Mouth Breather, Nub, Then Comes Dudley, Seasick
Noise rock, post-hardcore. No me ha gustado. Un 2.
Mmm, not for me. I get Noise Rock, but I feel like it is so easy for it to go over a ledge of unenjoyable accidentally.
Didn't care for this much at all. 2 stars.
These guys used to get late-night play on Australia's version of MTV in the 90s. It caught me multiple times, because they had a cool name but sounded like dog shit. But that was 30 years ago now and my tastes have surely matured. Time to give it the chance I never did. With so much more breadth of experience and a full adult vocabulary, I can now use words like jarring, annoying, loud, abrasive, dissonant, unstructured and pointless to describe it. I couldn't do that in 1994; I could only really say it sucked. But it's still just as fucking awful and disappointing as I remember. Imagine sitting up late as a kid, waiting for the heavy stuff, wanting Alice in Chains and Pantera, and instead you get this. Into the BIN. 2/5.
Initially thought the music was poor, but their take on psycho-rockabilly swamp bluesy rock grows on me. The “singing” is uniformly awful. The short album length is truly wonderful. I think I may have seen these fellows at Reading Festival 1993, so at that point they had an extra couple of years to hone the sound… I was probably similarly unimpressed!
Very much not the GOAT. Rating: 1.5 Playlist track: Mouth Breather Date listened: 28/07/24
This was a pretty odd album. Being in a genre called noise rock sums it up pretty well. Not sure why a disjointed muddled sound would be considered a good idea yet the mates of the Jesus lizard thought it would be. I couldn’t get into this album. It was messy (probably intentionally). 4.7/10
Nope!