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Songs About Fucking is the second full-length and final studio album by the punk rock band Big Black, released in 1987 by Touch and Go records. Included are covers of Kraftwerk's "The Model" (in a remixed version from the one on their recent B-side) and, on the CD version, Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore". Steve Albini has said that Songs About Fucking is the Big Black album that he is most satisfied with.

Big Black's second album, Songs About Fucking, is to be remastered and reissued this October. The album, originally released in 1987, has been remastered by the group's Steve Albini as well as musician and mastering engineer Bob Weston for the new release. It's the fifth record from Big Black to have been reissued by the pair at Chicago Mastering following on from Atomizer, Bulldozer, Racer-X and Headache. Each copy of the reissue will come in a single-pocket LP jacket with an insert.

Big Black on ‘Songs About F–king’ at 30: ‘We Wanted to Make Filthy Music’. When Durango reflects on Songs About Fucking now, it’s with pride. You’ll never see a band on a major label put out a record like that – with songs like that, that kind of artwork and the lyrics, he says. It’s just like, ‘We can do it.

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Big Black unleash a horde of grinding noise through your speakers, like a falling avalanche, thus making more noise as guitars and bass sound as indistinguishable as a train being derailed. Granted, Songs About Fucking is in no way a perfect album; when you can't make out even a parcel of the social-political lyrics, you are merely left with noise ("Kashmir S. Pulaski Day," "Pavement Saw"), especially when the vocals also lack that slightly hooky pitch (such as on "Ergot").