Carnival Of Excess: Limited Edition is a limited edition reissue of the album Carnival Of Excess, recorded by notorious punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 musician

Musician

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 GG Allin

GG Allin

Kevin Michael "GG" Allin was an American punk rock singer-songwriter, who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. GG Allin is perhaps best remembered for his notorious live performances, which often featured transgressive acts, including coprophagia, self-mutilation, and...

with one-time studio group The Criminal Quartet. This release, which contains previously unreleased mixes of the songs from the original album (with one exception, "Outskirts Of Life", which used the mix from the original 1996 release), was issued in limited editions of 100 white vinyl albums and 1200 compact discs. Added to the original release is a mock-commercial for the album featuring Tiny Tim and excerpts from a phone conversation with Allin about the album. Unlike many other GG Allin recordings, this release featured songs in the vein of country music

Country music

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, many of them acoustics.

Track listing

1. "Son Of Evil"
2. "Guns Bitches Brawls and Bottles"
3. "Carmelita
   Carmelita (song)
   "Carmelita" is a rock song written by Warren Zevon. The song was originally recorded by Canadian singer Murray McLauchlan on his self-titled album of 1972. Zevon himself recorded it four years later, in 1976, on his self titled album...
   
   " (Warren Zevon
   Warren Zevon
   Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
   
   )
4. "Outskirts Of Life"
5. "Fuck Authority"
6. "Watch Me Kill"
7. "A Snake (cold and hard)"
8. "GG + Tiny Tim on COE"
9. "No Rights" (GG Allin)
10. "Borrowed Time" (GG Allin)
11. "Pick Me Up (on your way down)" (Axton
    Hoyt Axton
    Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured, some of his songwriting efforts became well...
    
    /Levy/Reeves, adapted by GG Allin)

All songs written by GG Allin and Bob Widenhofer except where noted.

NOTE: The original writers and composers of "Pick Me Up..." were not credited on this release.

Vinyl listing

Side One

1. "GG Speaks On COE"
2. "Son of Evil"
3. "Guns Bitches Brawls & Bottles"
4. "Fuck Authority"

Side Two

1. "Outskirts of Life"
2. "Carmelita"
3. "A Snake (cold and hard"
4. "Watch Me Kill"

Songs: - "No Rights", "Borrowed Time", "Pick Me Up (on your way down)" did not appear on the vinyl version of the album.

NOTE: Vinyl also contained Special print essay hand written in GG Allin's own words, this is from the time GG spent in July 1991 Tampa, FL.. while recording the album.

Musical personnel

• GG Allin
  GG Allin
  Kevin Michael "GG" Allin was an American punk rock singer-songwriter, who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. GG Allin is perhaps best remembered for his notorious live performances, which often featured transgressive acts, including coprophagia, self-mutilation, and...
  
   - vocals, backing vocals,
• Bob Widenhofer - guitars
• Andy Irvine - bass
• Paul Reller
  Paul Reller
  Paul Reller is composer of contemporary classical music and experimental rock musician. He is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of South Florida since 1990, where he is the director of SYCOM, the USF School of Music's suite of electronic music studios...
  
   - drums, piano, accordion
• Shireen Kadaver (credited as "The Razor") - backing vocals on "Carmelita", "A Snake" and "Pick Me Up".
• Tiny Tim
  Tiny Tim (musician)
  Tiny Tim , , born in Manhattan, was an American singer and ukulele player. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto/vibrato voice.-Rise to fame:Born to Lebanese parents in 1932, Khaury displayed musical talent at a very young age...
  
  - uncredited announcer on track 8

Tracks 9-11 are performed solo by Allin on vocals and acoustic guitar.

External links

• Text of hyperbole-filled liner notes hand-written by GG Allin in the third person and inserted only in the vinyl edition
• Text from outside tray card of CD edition