Machine Gun Fellatio - The Essential Hits (2010)

Machine Gun Fellatio were the Australian rock equivalent of the theater of the absurd, with stage shows that were more like burlesque carnivals than traditional rock concerts. The bandmembers and their backing singers wore stilts and leisure suits; dressed as nurses, cats, and altar boys; or wore not much of anything at all except perhaps some nipple tassels, fake mustaches, or a strategically placed toy animal. The songs were no less scandalous, making use of found sound, industrial noise, and the filthiest lyrics they could think of. The controversy that followed them was inevitable, and presumably the point. Along the way they recorded albums with undeniably catchy tunes and kinetic rushes of pop hooks that earned them devoted fans, even if they did nothing to silence their harsher critics.