Sexual Roulette is the second studio album by Art Bergmann, released in 1990 on Duke Street Records.[1]
| Sexual Roulette | ||||
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| Released | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 46:20 | |||
| Label | Duke Street | |||
| Producer | Chris Wardman | |||
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The album's title track is a song about HIV/AIDS.[1] The album's most successful single was "Bound for Vegas", which received wide airplay on Canadian rock radio stations.[2]
The album was favourably reviewed by music critics, with many calling it a much stronger album than Crawl with Me.[3][4] It was named as one of the year's best albums by numerous critics, including John Mackie and Greg Potter of the Vancouver Sun,[5] Tom Harrison of The Province[6] and Mark Lepage of the Montreal Gazette.[7] Lepage wrote that "there's a drunkard, a wife-beater or a psycho on every big-city street, and Vancouver's Art Bergmann writes and sings as if he's met them all",[7] and Potter described the album as "Art Bergmann in Paul Westerbergish form" while simultaneously describing The Replacements' album All Shook Down as "Paul Westerberg in Art Bergmannish form".[5]
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Bound for Vegas" | 3:18 |
| 2. | "Sexual Roulette" | 5:04 |
| 3. | "Bar of Pain" | 3:31 |
| 4. | "Hospital Song" | 3:43 |
| 5. | "Sleep" | 4:40 |
| 6. | "Dirge No. 1" | 6:19 |
| 7. | "Swamp Food Thing" | 3:05 |
| 8. | "Gambol" | 3:48 |
| 9. | "SheHit Me" | 4:11 |
| 10. | "More Blue Shock" | 4:37 |
| 11. | "Deathwatch" | 4:04 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Bergmann rocks on explosive edge". Toronto Star, March 29, 1990.
- ^ "Art puts snarl back in rock". The Province, April 16, 1990.
- ^ "Steering a new course". The Globe and Mail, October 18, 1990.
- ^ "Great! Bergmann gets down in the gutter again". Vancouver Sun, April 14, 1990.
- ^ a b "Critics choose their pop/rock top 10 of 1990". Vancouver Sun, December 20, 1990.
- ^ "A weirdly inconsistent 'best of' list". The Province, January 3, 1991.
- ^ a b "1990: Rockers had a ball in court". Montreal Gazette, December 27, 1990.