ALBUM REVIEW

* * * 1/2 REVOLTING COCKS “Linger Ficken Good” Warner Bros.

Revolting Cocks is kind of the same as Ministry but kind of not, staffed with more or less the same guys that maestro Al Jourgensen assembles for most of his many, many projects, industrial disco reincarnated as rock ‘n’ roll with whomping 10-ton beats and wailing post-punk guitar. When his Chicago-based Wax Trax studio was in full swing a few years ago, Jourgensen sometimes made a couple of records a month. RevCo was the funny group, while Ministry was the serious, marketable one that even some Depeche Mode fans liked.

Now that Jourgensen is down to the same record per year as everybody else, he seems finally to have the time to develop his ideas. On “Linger Ficken Good”--a coherent, album-length opus devoted to mocking the idea of rock ‘n’ roll celebrity--trancy, two-bar bass lines loop into infinity; distant voices, distorted guitar howls, the occasional drum break all throb like a bad hangover.

Timothy Leary rants about empowerment; RevCo sort of does to Rod Stewart’s “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” what it did to “(Let’s Get) Physical” on its 1990 “Beers, Steers + Queers”; churning Farfisa funk sounds as if NASA were finally to resume contact with the Mars probe only to pick up Average White Band B-sides instead.

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