''Bad Mood Guy'' is the seventh

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Severed Heads Severed Heads were an Australian electronic music group founded in 1979 in music, 1979 as Mr and Mrs No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, who were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright had both ...

, first released in 1987. Upon its initial release, the album met positive reviews with critics, one in particular referring to it as ''"punishing pop with crunching rhythms"''. The album's lead single "Hot With Fleas" did well on independent radio stations, peaking at #4 on Rockpool's dance charts during the week of 31 December 1987. In 2002, after an attempt at making a version 2 of the album which was aborted due to the master DAT tape being irreparably damaged, Tom Ellard made a new version available on CD-R on his SevCom label, which substituted demo and live versions of some tracks and added extra material. This version (with some album versions of songs restored as bonus tracks) is what Tom made available on the official Severed Heads Bandcamp page. In 2023, the UK label Futurismo, Inc. released a remastered version of the album on two different pressings of 2LP set (with the first LP on either "Fleabitten Rash" (purple with hot pink inkspot) or "Jetlag Metal" (solid metallic silver) coloured vinyl, and second on standard black) containing a 12-page "Bad Mood Booklet" styled after the zines Ellard would publish and sell via mail order in the mid-late 80s to augment the albums. They also released it on CD in a standard Digipak with a foldout insert reproducing parts of the booklet. All these versions had artwork redone by Ellard.

Track listing (original 1987 release)

Track listing (2002 SevCom reissue)

*2: Edited version of the B-side of the "Hot with Fleas" 12" single. *3: From the compilation album ''Nettwerk Sound Sampler: Food for Thought''. *9: Edited version of the B-side of the "Greater Reward" 12" single. *16–18: Added to the Bandcamp release.

Track listing (2023 Futurismo, Inc. reissue)

First LP/CD track 1–10 as per the original 1987 release. 10 credited as "Mad Dad Mangles a Strad." LP side C: Tracks 11–16; Side D: Tracks 17–19.

Personnel

Tom Ellard Thomas Temple Ellard (born 1962) is an Australian electronic musician best known as the founding member of the electronic and industrial music group Severed Heads. Early life Ellard's first music contributions began in the late 1970s as a tee ...

- vocals, programming, mixing *Robert Racic - editing, mixing *Steven R. Gilmore - artwork, design *Andrew Penhallow - assistant mixing *Nick Mainbridge - assistant mixing

Release history

References

External links

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''Bad Mood Guy'' at Bandcamp
{{Authority control Severed Heads albums 1987 albums