Thing-Fish
Release Info
Released November 1984
Tracks
Disc One
- Prologue
- The Mammy Nuns
- Harry & Rhonda
- Galoot Up-Date
- The "Torchum" Never Stops
- That Evil Prince
- You Are What You Is
- Mudd Club
- The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
- Clowns On Velvet
- Harry As A Boy
- He's So Gay
- The Massive Improve'lence
- Artificial Rhonda
Disc Two
- The Crab-Grass Baby
- The White Boy Troubles
- No Not Now
- Briefcase Boogie
- Brown Moses
- Wistful Wit A Fist-Full
- Drop Dead
- Won Ton On
Players
Background
The main character was named to recall the stereotypically black Kingfish from the old Amos & Andy radio show.
In the plot, Thing-Fish has been deformed by the government’s biochemical warfare against gays and minorities as part of the right-wing plan to cry “divine retribution” (a’la Frank’s theory about how Republicans started AIDS via religious missionaries’ vaccinating of overseas primitives). The resulting “fear of God” helps value-preaching conservatives get elected, and also allows them to return favors to religious groups and televangelists who’ve donated campaign funds (cf. “Heavenly Bank Account” on You Are What You Is).