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\"Guinea<\/a>File under \u201cthings I should have listened to when I was handed them.\u201c The Guinea Worms\u2019 Duct Tape You<\/i> is a chunk of amber, preserved and blown out to make it actually feel like the bathroom at legendary Columbus basement dive Berne\u2019s before it imploded. (Is it still there, hidden under the dairy section of the Target that replaced it?)<\/p>\n

Will Foster was cursing the fall of Bernie\u2019s, or decrying its designation as a national monument, frequently around the turn of the century. His Guinea Worms were prolific after the triumphant debut of You Can\u2019t Chump This<\/i>, with a flurry of CDRs that rivals the output of any current prolific viral musician. My CD rack could attest to this fact; the bottom half was devoted to Guinea Worms EPs and two-song singles, the commodity of the times. It felt special: not like a mixtape, but as a collectible. One of those from the 2001 hot streak was Duct Tape You<\/i>, a five-song EP that was pure Foster in the moment. His precision with short bursts of pop weirdness and atmosphere that read the room (counter-sleaze?) was best absorbed in these realized sketches\u2014or at debaucherous, tightly chaotic live shows.<\/p>\n

Duct Tape You<\/i> features the best line-up Foster ever had to raw-dog his vision, with a ferocious, Nuggets<\/i>-inspired performance from guitarist Bill Wagner atop the ramshackle, bruised beats of Jenny Mullins and Angela Dancey\u2019s riotous bass battery. Oh boy, were they good when they were on. And here they are very on, as captured during a Chillicothe\u00a0miracle at the Recording Workshop. Songs like \u201cJenny Jones\u201d and what is perhaps Foster\u2019s prettiest song ever, \u201cCan\u2019t Make Me Cry,\u201d of course, feel of that moment in time, but for some reason, in the now, they burn just as white hot as when they were first played.<\/p>\n

This archival release from Ohio-focused label Good Times Rock N Roll Club makes Duct Tape You<\/i> a full experience by adding the \u201cSpring Rage\u201d b\/w \u201cHello From Ohio\u201d single as the finale. The latter is the instance where the Guinea Worms forged a never-forgotten legacy in Columbus and the state (they toured regularly in later iterations), not only in the chant, \u201cCheap rent, cheap beer, Indian mounds,\u201d but in the edict that Columbus \u201cis from the street.\u201d It\u2019s in this single that Foster is at his most feral and most catchy; it\u2019s the one everyone has and everyone probably won\u2019t forget. It was the moment when Foster moved from his love of The Fall (he\u2019s still immortally smitten with Mark E. Smith), the miasma of Columbus home-recorded weirdos that came before him (Tommy Jay, Ron House, Nudge Squidfish), and the foundation he learned in Athens County mischief (his first band Clay, Appalachian Death Ride) and into something that was distinctly Columbus and distinctly Foster. Mold broken here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File under \u201cthings I should have listened to when I was handed them.\u201c The Guinea Worms\u2019 Duct Tape You is a chunk of amber, preserved and blown out to make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2637,1444],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-perfect","tag-guinea-worms","tag-past-perfect"],"yoast_head":"\nGuinea Worms Duct Tape You - The Agit Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Past Perfect: Review of vinyl reissue of Guinea Worms' Duct Tape You from 2001 by Good Times Rock N Roll Club.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/guinea-worms-duct-tape-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guinea Worms Duct Tape You - The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Past Perfect: Review of vinyl reissue of Guinea Worms' Duct Tape You from 2001 by Good Times Rock N Roll Club.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/guinea-worms-duct-tape-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAgitReader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-01T12:22:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-09T12:10:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ducttapeyou.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kevin J. 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