Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ

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{{Infobox album

| name = Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ

| type = studio

| artist = Christian Death

| cover = Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ.jpg

| alt =

| released = 18 October 1988

| recorded = 1988

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| studio =

| genre = {{flatlist|

  • Gothic rock{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sex-and-drugs-and-jesus-christ-mw0000246529 |title=Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ – Christian Death | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic |last=Huey |first=Steve |website=AllMusic |accessdate=17 February 2019}}

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| producer = Valor

| prev_title = The Scriptures

| prev_year = 1987

| next_title = All The Love

| next_year = 1989

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating |2|5}}

| rev2 = Metal Storm

| rev2score = 8.6/10{{cite web |url=http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=2842 |title=Christian Death – Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ Review – Metal Storm |date=May 2006 |website=Metal Storm |accessdate=17 February 2019}}

| rev3 = Trouser Press

| rev3score = unfavourable{{cite web |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=christian_death |title=TrouserPres.com :: Christian Death |last1=Fasolino |first1=Greg |last2=Yeske |first2=Katherine |last3=Ferguson |first3=Scott |website=Trouser Press |accessdate=2 March 2019}}

}}

Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ is the sixth album by American deathrock band Christian Death. It was released on 18 October 1988.

Content

= Album cover =

The cover artwork for Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ has incited controversy.{{cite web |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/valor-kand-of-christian-death-i-have-an-issue-with-people-assuming-what-jesus-looked-like-7069239 |title=Valor Kand of Christian Death: "I Have an Issue with People Assuming What Jesus Looked Like" | Dallas Observer |last=Smyers |first=Darryl |date=5 September 2013 |website=Dallas Observer |accessdate=17 February 2019}} It depicts an image of Jesus Christ in a self-made tourniquet, injecting heroin.

According to Jungle Records' website, the artwork affected the band, leading to a cancellation of shows in Boston.{{cite web |url=http://www.jungle-records.net/index.php/releases/junglereleases/21-christiandeathsexadrugs |title=Christian Death 'Sex & Drugs & Jesus Christ' |website=Jungle Records |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722025100/http://www.jungle-records.net/index.php/releases/junglereleases/21-christiandeathsexadrugs |archivedate=22 July 2011 |accessdate=17 February 2019}} The website claims the artwork was censored in NME and Melody Maker magazine, with the NME rating it a 1 out of 10, saying "may the good lord strike them down."

Release

Released on 18 October 1988, Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ is reportedly Christian Death's highest selling album from the 1980s.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

Reception

Trouser Press described the record as "awful", "rudimentary" and "barely musical".

Track listing

  1. "This Is Heresy" - 4:21
  2. "Jesus Where's the Sugar" - 3:14
  3. "Wretched Mankind" - 4:24
  4. "Tragedy" - 04:09
  5. "Third Antichrist" - 10:21
  6. "Erection" - 5:23
  7. "Ten Thousand Hundred Times" - 4:42
  8. "Incendiary Lover" - 3:01
  9. "Window Pain" - 9:15

CD version contains the additional song "Tragedy" as track 4.

Personnel

References