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Dicks

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The first Dicks long-player (and the only one featuring the original lineup), Kill from the Heart captures the band sounding very live in the studio and preserves their grungy, bluesy hardcore, flubs and all. The Dicks hailed from Austin, TX, and their sound at this time was a spongy, grimy mess churned out by novice players; their rootsy influences aren’t immediately apparent underneath all the mud and fury. While clumsy, they’re also compelling, especially when frontman Gary Floyd lets loose with his enormous bellow or guitarist Glen takes a solo and sounds like he’s getting his fingers caught in the strings. The proudly Communist Dicks hold nothing back in their rants against the Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, bourgeois fascist pigs and, more often than not, the police. Floyd spewed particularly vile venom when writing about the boys in blue, resulting in cop-killer material like the title track, “Pigs Run Wild,”