Aural Guerrilla

Aural Guerrilla
Studio album by The Ex
Released	1988
Recorded	Mar 1, 1988-Mar 7, 1988 at Studio Suite 16, Rochdale, England
Genre	Anarcho punk Post-punk
Label	Ex Records Homestead Records
Producer	Jon Langford
The Ex chronology
Too Many Cowboys (1987) Aural Guerrilla (1988) Joggers and Smoggers (1989)

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Aural Guerrilla is the sixth studio album by Dutch anarchist post-punk band The Ex. Released in 1988 simultaneously on the band's own Ex Records in Europe and in the United States indie rock label Homestead Records, Aural Guerrilla was the first of the Ex's studio albums to be widely distributed in the North America. The album's original vinyl release featured multiple pages of newsprint inserts featuring comics, posters, and other information, as well as a regular insert containing the album's lyrics and a replica of the album's cover formatted to the size of an audio cassette alongside a note encouraging the record's owner to duplicate and distribute the album at will. The album's central cover image is that of a gorilla yawning, suggesting the homonymous pun with the album's title, "oral gorilla."

Aural Guerrilla was re-issued on CD in 1993 by Ex Records in the Netherlands and by Fist Puppet in the U.S. The Greek label Di Di Music also reissued the album on vinyl.

"A Motorbike in Afrika" is a cover of the song by Peter Hammill, from his album The Future Now (1978).

Track listing

1. "Headache by Numbers"
2. "Fashionation"
3. "2.2"
4. "Carcass"
5. "Welcome to the Asylum"
6. "Meanwhile at McDonna's"
7. "Shooting-Party"
8. "Evolution(?)"
9. "A Motorbike in Afrika"
10. "Godgloeiendeteringklootzak"

Personnel and recording

• Terrie (guitar)
• G.W. Sok (vocals)
• Luc (bass)
• Katrin (drums)
• Nicolette (guitar, whistles, mouth-organ)
• Ferrie Meurkerrie (trumpet on "Fashionation")
• Harry (percussion on "A Motorbike In Afrika")
• Dolf Planteijdt (guitar on "2.2")

Notes

• Cogan, Brian. Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-313-33340-8.
• Mount, Heather. "Three Looks into The Ex". In Crane, Larry. Tape Op: The Book about Creative Music Recording, Volume 2. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2010. pp. 230–233.
• Robbins, Ira A., ed. The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock: The all-new 5th edition of The Trouser Press Record Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0684814374.
• Sok, G.W. A Mix of Bricks & Valentines: Lyrics 1979–2009. New York: PM Press, 2011.
• Temporary Services. Group Work. New York: Printed Matter, March 2007.

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