Black Humor – Love God Love One Another

Black Humor is the San Francisco based late term abortion of Dan Houser (Good Samaritans) and George Miller. This band was mostly a studio project although they changed their sound a bit and did play some live shows around the time this record first came out (on Fowl Records in 1982). The sound is somewhere between noisy art punk and industrial with a brief lapse into traditional African in “Zebra Killers”. The content of this record is a whole other thing though. The liner notes detail the intentions, more or less, for every song. The record seems to be somewhere between a true outsider’s rant and a social experiment in bad taste. From what I have read, these guys were pretty big weirdos. Dan Houser was always wearing roller skates and hung out with a parrot he had taught to say, “fuck’. This record does not have the most radio friendly lyrics, but it has balls and while not ALL the sounds jive with me, I like this record and I have respect for what these guys where going for. This record is art.