Sexual Roulette | ||||
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Studio album by Art Bergmann | ||||
Released | 1990 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 46:20 | |||
Label | Duke Street | |||
Producer | Chris Wardman | |||
Art Bergmann chronology | ||||
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Sexual Roulette is the second studio album by Art Bergmann, released in 1990 on Duke Street Records. [1]
Arthur Frank "Art" Bergmann is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who was one of the key figures in Canadian punk rock in the late 1970s.
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The album's title track is a song about HIV/AIDS. [1] The album's most successful single was "Bound for Vegas", which received wide airplay on Canadian rock radio stations. [2]
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Following initial infection, a person may not notice any symptoms or may experience a brief period of influenza-like illness. Typically, this is followed by a prolonged period with no symptoms. As the infection progresses, it interferes more with the immune system, increasing the risk of developing common infections such as tuberculosis, as well as other opportunistic infections, and tumors that rarely affect people who have working immune systems. These late symptoms of infection are referred to as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This stage is often also associated with unintended weight loss.
The album was favourably reviewed by music critics, with many calling it a much stronger album than Crawl with Me . [3] [4] It was named as one of the year's best albums by numerous critics, including John Mackie and Greg Potter of the Vancouver Sun , [5] Tom Harrison of The Province [6] and Mark Lepage of the Montreal Gazette . [7] Lepage wrote that "there's a drunkard, a wife-beater or a psycho on every big-city street, and Vancouver's Art Bergmann writes and sings as if he's met them all", [7] and Potter described the album as "Art Bergmann in Paul Westerbergish form" while simultaneously describing The Replacements' album All Shook Down as "Paul Westerberg in Art Bergmannish form". [5]
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No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Bound for Vegas" | 3:18 |
2. | "Sexual Roulette" | 5:04 |
3. | "Bar of Pain" | 3:31 |
4. | "Hospital Song" | 3:43 |
5. | "Sleep" | 4:40 |
6. | "Dirge No. 1" | 6:19 |
7. | "Swamp Food Thing" | 3:05 |
8. | "Gambol" | 3:48 |
9. | "SheHit Me" | 4:11 |
10. | "More Blue Shock" | 4:37 |
11. | "Deathwatch" | 4:04 |
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