Comments for Bert, Quiet Positive Pump

The greatest fuckin' band on the planet offers up 24 better ways to kill that bastard at work, especially if he's a Mason. This CD pretty much contains everything they've ever recorded with the exception of their first tape, Slop. A 20 band noise compilation rarely comes to close to creating as much confusion and atonal nerve damage as bert so easily does. If you've missed their other releases, make up for it and get this. It's the only way to get to heaven. Shane Gillis/editor of Crunch Factory

Review source: DISC-ASSOCIATED PRESS Underground Music And Reviews #1 PO Box 4531, Stamford, CT 06907-0531 (203)969-0557 bert - QUIET POSITIVE PUMP (Chicken Ranch Records) Industrial psychedelic post-punk in a more extreme vein of Bomb or Steel Pole Bathtub or even Grotus or Neurosis at times. If I didn't know better, I would swear that bert hail from San Francisco and could nver have imagined a band of such great progression could have the hometown of Montgomery, AL. An odd similarity to the band that Jello Biafra once called the Rush of Punk, The Inbred, is enough alone for me--but throw some industrial into the mix, and I'm there. 23 tracks of insanity that at times might even be confused with genius on Chicken Ranch Records, PO Box 151922 Austin, TX 78715. e-mail: cranch@eden.com

Simply put, this is one of my favorite CDs...

The first six tracks are this bitter noise rock trio recorded in Chicago by reknown feline engineer Fluss and his faithful manservant Steve. The other racket is fromvarious other sessions. Weird, skronking guitar, a poundingrhythm section from Hell (Alabama)and alternately howledand sung vocals concerning the problem with the world today:people. Y`know . . . how to kill `em, how they ruin everything, how many ways a skull will bust with abaseball bat, etc.