The Harridans CD Inlay: Listen With The Harridans

The above image is a CD inlay for lo-fi post punk band "The Harridans". The album is called "Listen With The Harridans" as this is what they would like you to do, just as they did when they recorded it.

Even though the picture has in no way been altered, or indeed airbrushed for a more sleek and refined look to the classic harridan "Nora Batty's" face, it still does not alter her perfection for this CD inlay.

On this CD the songs are all centred around an imaginary inbred village full of mindless webfooted moronic spitefulls that exist within this imaginary world. The lyrical content is sardonic, full of venom, and scathing sarcasm, whilst the music itself is deliberately mocking of this hideous inbred village.

Stylistically the music is still in keeping with it's post punk/lo-fi approach, however there are elements of Country Rock, Avant-Garde, and experimental improvisations to keep the concept fused together.

The Songs contained on this CD are as follows:


1) Inbred Funk

2) Yokel Piece Of Shit

3) Concrete Pig

4) Sadistic Anorak

5) Chicken Fister

6) Boss Hog/Hog Castrator/Porkies Diner

7) White Trash Song

8) Brush Ballad


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Image chosen by The Harridans

Written by Scythe Underdog

Don't Forget to Defecate on the Hymn Sheet - The Harridans

The bleak future message to the masses

Link to the song: http://soundcloud.com/instantnowhere-korporation/dont-forget-to-defecate-on-the

This song was written by The Harridans concerning the restrictiveness of human bodily fluids as opposed to the purity of spiritual thought. How an ideal always overlooks the physical condition from whence it emanated. Society, politics. culture and religion, all deny the animalistic nature of humanity and suppress and manipulate this aspect in order to control the masses.

The way in which every aspect of the political agenda aspires to a lofty ideal or a cultural norm assumes a model human being that neither eats, drinks, sweats, defecates, reproduces, experiences pleasure or pain, reflects the lack of empathy our 'leaders' feel towards us. By splitting their consciousness to a falsely conceived purity against our tarnished betrayal of our animal urges, they set up a complex experience of fear and disgust and an attempt to deny sitting upon their very human backside. Belching and farting and excretion is seen as something other people do in their own hideous lives.

Why has this become the state of human affairs? What is the end goal for our benighted elite?

The Harridans

The Harridans CD inlay: Down on the Farm

The concrete treadmill

Here we have another CD inlay for experimental post-punk band The Harridans

The tracks on this album all deal with the controlled existence we are all subjected to on a daily basis.

All of the songs on this album involve aspects of the control system and the evilarchy behind it. The songs also form part of a larger set of song material, however this mini album is just a small portion of this, and a partial glimpse at the much bigger picture.

The songs contained on this album are:


1) The Parasite Club

2) Public Automaton

3) The Grim face of the grey corporation

4) Send me retirement

5) The slow deflation of greed


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Artwork by Arnie Canoe

All music by The Harridans


 

The Harridans: Songs to tap your feet to

Has the song started yet?

Here is a CD inlay for a two track album by experimental post-punk band The Harridans.

The two tracks contained on this album are:

1) Music for sheep

2) Murder to the beat

Track one is a deeply hypnotic, brain spank of a track, and revolves around one very simplistic rhythmic time signature that recycles itself over the course of the song with subtle embellishments that add colour and dynamics to the mix of linear guitar lines, and dark repetitious vocals.

Track two has an improvised drum and guitar intro that builds into an odd time tribal drum pattern which live can last for up to 30 minutes, before descending into the main theme of the song which is pinned into submission by a heavy, foreboding guitar part fit for the nearest disco abattoir. The song then turns back on itself and once again the tribal drum pattern is back, before an improvised outro leads the listener down yet another slippery garden path.


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Artwork by Heston Quiff

Music by The Harridans

Love your Life: CD inlay for The Harridans

Is your life worth whingeing about

The above image is an inlay to a CD by experimental Lo-Fi band The Harridans.

In the foreground you can clearly see the emaciated figures of the prisoners of war as they endure the terrible conditions they find themselves in after their capture.

The background however is a brochure for summer breaks around the country in such places as Cornwall and Devon.

When I put this CD inlay together it was to show two completely opposite sides of reality: The first represents the harsh, hellish side of life that some of us have to endure, and have had to endure, while the other is to many of us representative of heaven as we sun ourselves on golden beaches, yet still finding the time to moan about the price of an ice cream oblivious of the hardships that some individuals have to deal with in their lives.

The Harridans music is about separating the light from the dark, but without diluting, or ignoring the true nature of reality and all contained within it.

The list of songs contained on this CD by The Harridans are as follows:

1: Chilblains, Migraines, Dunblaines
2: Decline
3: Don't forget to defecate on the hymn sheet
4: Ever-Dwindling status of celebrity morons
5: HAARP death ray
6: I am the eye in the sky

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Collage by Arnie Canoe

Music by The Harridans