Label: self-released
Recorded: March 1986, Manchester, NH
Released: Spring/Summer 1986
Tracks: Bad Habits / Sluts In The City / Blood For You / I Wanna Suck Your Cunt / Tough Fuckin’ Shit
Lineup: GG Allin (vocals), Connie Clit (guitar), Tammy Tits (bass, backup vox), Poline Pussy (guitar, backup vox) Sally Sleaze (drums).
All of the names are fictional credits. Most likely GG played all the instruments, and his girlfriends Felicia and Lisa did background vocals.
GG follows up his finest recording in years by rounding up some girls (I’m assuming they weren’t really prostitutes, but I guess you never know) and delivering five Dollsy shit-stompers. Catchy call-and-response choruses with the female backing vocals make this GG outing a unique and, uh, enjoyable listen. GG’s voice is worse for the wear, but still a bit more tuneful than his subsequent outings. Four of the five tracks here are covers in disguise: “I Wanna Suck Your Cunt” is actually DMZ’s “Ball Me Out” from the “Live At The Rat” LP; GG in one interview referred to them and Monoman/Lyres as his favorites in Boston. “Tough Fuckin’ Shit” is a tougher one to decipher — it’s actually a trashed-out version of Nancy Sinatra’s “Sorry 'Bout That,” substituting the bouncy horns with its defining guitar line. Never would have guessed this if GG hadn’t let the cat out of the bag in an interview. Another head-scratcher is the slutification of California glam-poppers Candy, whose 1985 “Kids In The City” gets thrust into ripped fishnets for the 'Sluts theme song. And lastly, “Bad Habits” is a sleazy honky-tonk kernel distilled from, most surprising of all, a 1983 Joan Armatrading track. (Someone must have spent a lot of time scouring Discogs, YouTube and Shazam to come up with that one!) Two different color xerox covers exist, one called “The Sleaziest, Loosest Sluts” and the other “The Misadventures Of A Total Slut.”
Reviews
These 5 new studio tunes were supposed to come up as a 7" about a year ago, but cash flow problems necessitated yet another GG-cassette-only effort, ala the Texas Nazis tape. This time around, GG is joined by an all-female (yeah right) backing trio and the results are the least impressive of his otherwise fabulous career... "Cedar St. Slut" is a bit of a throwback to the days of "Gimme Some Head" in that the music's a lot closer to a Stones/Dolls sorta punk than GG's more recent brand of totally undescribable thrash stuff. "Bad Habits" and "Sluts In The City" are the closest the guy's ever come to a straight rock song, and "I Wanna Suck Your Cunt" (also available on the This Is Axction Island compilation 7") covers ground that the man's already trampled upon many a time. Only "Tough Fuckin' Shit" really hits, and that's mostly because it's so damn hard to hear what the fuck the guitarist is up to. The noisier and less hook-y GG's songs are, the better (used panties and a few dollars to PO Box 54, Hookset, NH 03106).
— Conflict (Boston, MA)
Back with a new band (CEDAR ST. SLUTS), who are listed as, and sound like, all-female (but probably aren't). Real garagey rock 'n' roll here, so bad it's good at times — like the DOLLS on a typically bad night ... and then some.
— Maximum RockNRoll, May 1986 (Berkeley, CA)
Would anyone be suprised to learn that GG Allin (that amusical whore) has yet another cassette ready? Of course not.
Does anyone buy this fecal stuff? Somebody must, but I can’t see any good reason why.
Not only are the female (!) singers (?) as miserable and out of tune as they could possibly be — no surprises there — but the guitar playing, once respectable on Allin’s work, is now worse than even makes sense here.
Hard to understand, too. Why would nice girls like Connie Clit, Tammy Tits et al., leave promising careers in massage parlors to disgrace themselves like this?
GG’s getting to be an old joke. And he’s not exactly ripening any with age, either.
The only song (the title tune, as it were) ends with a vulgar but impossible solution. But, at least, coming as it does in a cassette box, this packaging is easy to chuck into the dustbin where it belongs. But be careful to bury it under more respectable refuse like cat droppings and plate scrapings lest the garbage collectors refuse to touch it. No one could blame them.
Why isn’t Allin in the ha-ha hotel by now? The man (?) needs treatment. And quick.
Don’t buy this. Don’t even accept it as a present. Sucks. Gag city.
— The Newpaper (Providence, RI)
I’ve heard of GG before but never had the unpleasure of hearing his “product.” Is this guy real or what? Can I really do a normal review of these two tapes? The answer is a definite no. Well — “Bad Habits” from the Cedar St. Sluts is somewhat catchy, a little like NY Dolls — with vulgarity. Over all, though, both tapes are simply an unbelievable conglomerate of filth. Live In Dallas contains all GG’s outrageous ramblings between “songs” and a production far beyond your worst bootleg. Sick, tasteless, obscene and loud. If you like your tapes sick and sleazy, wrap your mitts around these two gems.
— The Noise #50 - June 1986 (Boston, MA)
The newest from the bad boy of rock, featuring an all new, all female back-up band!! (Tammy Tits - bass, vocals; Connie Clit - guitar; Pauline Pussy - guitar, vocals; Sally Sleaze - drums). Five toons in all starting with "Bad Habits" which blatantly describes GG's personal life and has the most undesirable back-up vocals ever recorded!! Then "Sluts In The City" and "Eat You Out" are pretty self-explanatory. "Blood For You" finds GG pouring his feeble emotions into a toon about him being a God (by the way, he told me that GG stands for Jesus Christ!!!!). "Tough Fuckin' Shit" is his reaction to your reaction to him. Trashy recording, but good enough for me. If you liked the NY Dolls or Iggy then get this.
— Sporadic Droolings (NJ)
The legend returns and, believe it or not, this tape is actually pretty damned good. The lyrics are typical GG, but there's an infectious, garagey quality about "Bad Habits" and "Sluts" that takes a cue from '77 punk and the NY Dolls. This tape doesn't suck as badly as the liner notes claim. Way to go!
— Suburban Voice (Lynn, MA)
OK, the best joke about GG would be to sit him in a room with fifty rape victims and see what happens... Well, with a new ensemble of girls who (according to the liner notes) know only one thing: to fuck and suck, the loveable Mr. Allin is up to his usual... no more need be said. GG Allin? Woody Allen? Steve Allen? ... like I said, you get the idea.
— xXx #15, 1986 (Marblehead, MA)
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