The Macc Lads - Bitter, Fit Crack [Re-issue]

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Sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, drunken louts! What's not to like?

This was the Macc Lads' second album proper, coming after the entirely well-deserved notoriety of their first outing Beer & Sex & Chips N Gravy and their inability to play a tour due to being banned from everywhere. After that album anything was likely to be something of a let-down, but actually this doesn't disappoint.

The Lads' schtick was simple: they were bascially a covers band who also wrote some of their own songs and had a good line in childish, gratuitously offensive toilet humour. They were equal opportunity bigots, however, and seemed to pick on pretty much everyone at some point. It was a funny act and succeeded in winding up humourless dullards a treat while it lasted.

The highlights on this album are where they veer off the template a bit and go for the character jugular. So for me, the best tracks of this album are the following four:

Uncle Knobby : an introduction to a proto-paedo and lover of hamsters so grubbily and queasily funny you really do make you feel like you need a bath after wards, even while you wet yourself laughing.

Got To Be Gordon's is an advert for the Lads' local Chinese (Gordon crops up a lot in the Macc Lads' ouevre) and it rattles along nicely, getting its best gag in on the entrance to the first chorus; the rest of the song's still great, anyway.

Julie the Schooly is the tale of a very busy and sociable schoolgirl, just don't think about carrots too much…

Finally, there's the anti-Band Aid song, Feed Your Face, which strays into very similar territory to Chumbawamba's 'Pictures of Dying Children Sell Records', but chooses tho eschew a politically correct take on the project, instead doing it in the most puerile and offensive fashion possible, as only the Macc Lads can.

Many people miss the point of the Macc Lads, hammering them as cartoon mysoginists and homophobes. I think the conceit works on a number of levels and is not a one-dimensional one-gag act. In a weird way these records are a kind of social document; they are a story of a culture in 80's and 90's Britain that really did exist and persists to this day through the ancestral line of 'lad culture'. It's true: in many northern (and southern) towns and cities there really were (and still are) people like this, much as many would like to deny it. The joke's on them really, these anachronistic relics who haven't moved with the times; while they go on as they always have, the world regards them almost with pity, not to mention some disgust.

And going to see them live was an experience in itself!

You can analyze all you like, but the key thing was that the Macc Lads made music you could laugh along with and it put you in a good mood. And this is the second best example of it, the first being their debut. If you have these two albums, you've pretty much got the best of the bunch as the funny hit rate started to fall off a little after this. [Amazon user review]

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The Macc Lads - Bitter, Fit Crack [Re-issue]

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