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JOHNNY THUNDERS

Who's Been Talking?
(MVD)

THE MENTORS
El Duce Vita
(MVD)

WAKING UP DEAD
The Pitfalls of Drumming for
Scumbags.
(MVD)

KREATOR
Enemy of God Revisited
(SPV)

EINSTURZENDE
NEUBATEN
Palast Der Republik
(MVD)

THE QUEERS
The Queers Are Here
(MVD)

DWARVES
Fefu 
(MVD)
 
BAD BRAINS
Live at CBGB 1982
(MVD)
 
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DWARVES

FEFU - Fuck, Eat and Fuck You
(MVD)


 

For fans of California’s favorite pervs FEFU holds plenty to hold dear; tons of tits, fights, blood, and the dangling dick of HeWhoCannotBeNamed. The DVD is mostly a vehicle to promote the Dwarves latest video for the single “FEFU” (short for Fuck, Eat, and Fuck You Up) out of their latest release The Dwarves Must Die. The video itself has no plot and basically consists of vocalist Blag Dahlia lip-synching in front of dozens of topless Suicide Girls. There is also a middle-age midget. Then there is the same scene of Dahlia with the SG girls but this time around everyone is covered in fake blood. Then there is a very short scene of Dahlia making out with the midget. That’s it. In typical Dwarves mode the song is over quite quickly and you have two options; watch the ‘making of’ or the version of the video, director’s cut and edited, you have not seen.  The ‘making of’ portion offers very little, basically because there is nothing worth documenting besides capturing Suicide Girls posing for photographs, Blag Dahlia walking around the set with little to say, a short cameo by Rex Everything (Nick Oliveri), the dangling wee wee of the infamous HeWhoCannotBeNamed, and then some shots of people enjoying catering.  Regarding the song, what can we say? There was time when The Dwarves seemed dangerous, when their dirty sound perfectly complimented their naughty attitude, but is this slick and quasi electronic guitar sound, and the too modern production values along with their sugary rhythms that’s made of The Dwarves a band that once was really badass. Keyword being 'was'.

 

The extras are more juicy; plenty of live material featuring the typical Dwarves shows and going all the way back to the 80’s. Some of the live material is quite funny; with the songs hardly ever getting performed all the way through and with band members usually punching or slamming their instruments against the scarce yet invasive, insulting and totally disrespectful audience. But what do you expect? This is The Dwarves we are talking about; a band that’s carved a career out of offending, pranking and fucking with everyone around. There are also two interviews, one from 1992 in Texas where the interviewer fights to get a straight answer and the band does its best to seem funny but comes way short and one from Europe where the two females interviewers giggle at every single thing Blag says and HeWhoCannotBeNamed mumbles.  

 

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