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Spine Of God

Monster Magnet

Released

1991

Named after a kitschy Wham-O toy from the ’60s, Monster Magnet came roaring out of Red Bank with a racket that sent ’70s crate-dug obscurities stumbling through the killing fields of Reagan’s war on drugs. Dave Wyndorf drones out deadbeat poetry drawn equally from his own sordid life experiences and pop-culture ephemera, future Desert Session attendee John McBain sends out waves of weirdness, the rhythm section guides them both into infinity. Makes sense that they were on a label that once put out Faust and Gong records.