Alternative Tentacle
2004
Gacy's Place: The Undiscovered Corpses
About This Album
Chicago's Mentally Ill were one of the more insipid, juvenile punk bands to commit recordings to tape and believe it or not, that's a big part of their appeal. The crux of their status as underground punk notables lies on the back of one song, "Gacy's Place," which uses the exploits of mass murderer John Wayne Gacy as its muse. It's offensive and obnoxious, but serial killers weren't uncommon subjects for punk bands in the late '70s and early '80s; however, the Mentally Ill bested other nascent horror-core challengers like the Child Molesters with "I'm the Hillside Strangler" and Ambient Noise with "I Was There at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" by equaling their awful subject matter with a truly horrid, cheap, and thin production sound that few other U.S. acts could (or would) match. So how did they go from having one notable single to meriting a whole CD? Tapes of three recording sessions surfaced and Alternative Tentacles gobbled them up and spit them out as Gacy's Place: The Undiscovered Corpses. The Starbeat Sessions that produced "Gacy's Place" are the strongest of the three, and all eight songs culled from that 1979 recording date are virile blasts of inspired amateurism.
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