Description
Smash is the debut album by the American punk and hard rock band One Bad Pig, released on Pure Metal Records in 1989, a division of Refuge Music Group, distributed by Spectra Distribution. (The band had also self-released a six-track EP entitled A Christian Banned, originally released on vinyl in 1986, and later on cassette as well.) The album was recorded by Lee Groitzsch at Warner Bros Nashville Music Recording Studios and at Downstage Studio in Nashville, Tennessee; and was produced by Billy Smiley of White Heart fame. Mixed by Smiley and Groitzsch.
‘Smash’, the first full-length album by One Bad Pig, is appropriately titled. With something for everyone, this album defies pigeon-holing into the punk or heavy metal genre. It’s “Pig Music”, and pig music is fun.
If the beach-sounding drums in «I’m Not Getting Any Older» don’t get your feet moving, surely the polka strains of «Looney Tune» will.
They’ll have you bopping along to a melody one second, and flying into some hard-core punk/thrash the next.
While the music contains plenty of out-of-control guitar riffs and crunchy, chopping rhythms, the lyrics have serious, confrontational messages: “Frat rats and sorority swine/ Your problem is the same as mine/ Look to the world to satisfy/ You’ll find that it’s empty, empty, empty inside.”
This is one of those fun albums that you won’t tire easily of. In fact, you’ll probably start believing the chorus of: “I’m not getting any older/ Now I’m only gettin’ younger/ Forever’s all I know.”
I’ll give it ten oinks and a squeal. [Doug Van Pelt, CCM, March 1989]
Smash 2020 Re-issue, Retroactive Records promo
One Bad Pig started out as a novelty act that eventually transcended the limitations of their satirical orientation to achieve cult status as a legitimate band. Indeed, the group is quite possibly the most popular hard-punk act ever to arise within the Christian music scene. Although they became known as a “party band,” as famous for their stage antics as for their music, the group had a very serious focus on ministry. Smash was the band’s debut full-length album that released in 1989 on the most important record label of the 80’s to all Christian hard rock fans – Pure Metal Records! Produced by a young Billy Smiley of White Heart fame – the band broke down all preconceived notions of what could be done with rock, punk, and metal – and it was all rolled up into one amazing, succulent spicy pork roll! And, while Motorhead and the Sex Pistols might have been promoting anarchy in the U.K., One Bad Pig branded their own live-in-concert chaos, with the song, «Smash» and its legendary chorus “Smash, smash, smash the guitar” being a staple hard rock anthem in any self-respecting hard rock and metal fan’s repertoire. The importance of Smash’s impact on the Christian hard music scene was highlighted by the album’s inclusion on a very coveted, and exclusive list, HM Magazine’s Top 100 Christian Rock Albums of All-Time. Smash is full of hard rock anthems that have only grown more impressive with time, and bold lyrics that touch on the heart of the human experience. No one dominated a live show like One Bad Pig – and that’s because they are elite musicians whose love for God is something they longed to share with the world. This album embodies all that passion and youthful energy, and it’s something to behold, to experience, and to absorb. For OBP fans, this is your chance to get a classic album remastered and better than ever. For those who never gave Smash a chance back in the day….this is your chance to jump into the pig pit of fun – just make sure you know where you put your air guitar! For fans of The Crucified, Motorhead, and fun-ol-fashioned Pig Music.
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Godarchy” – 3:09
A2. “Isaiah 6” – 2:38
A3. “Let’s Be Frank” – 3:38
A4. “People Cry Out” – 3:57
A5. “Frat Rats” – 2:26
A6. “Smash The Guitar” – 3:44
Side Two
B1. “Kingdom Come” – 4:33
B2. “Take A Flying Leap” – 2:15
B3. “I’m Not Getting Any Older” – 4:28
B4. “Looney Tune” – 1:24
B5. “Don’t Be Fooled Blow And Go” – 3:19
B6. “Blow And Go” – 2:14
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette, 12-inch vinyl LP, and CD by Pure Metal Records. Remastered for vinyl by Rob Colwell of Bombworks Sound and re-issued as a Limited Edition 12-inch vinyl LP (fluorescent green and fluorescent pink vinyl, 100 units each) by Retroactive Records in 2020.
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