This Fuckin' Guy

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This Fuckin' Guy
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ReleasedMarch 15, 2015 (2015-03-15)
StudioVictory Way Studios
(Burbank, California)
Genre
Length18:43
Label Powertool
Producer Dan West
King Missile IV chronology
Royal Lunch
(2004)
This Fuckin' Guy
(2015)

This Fuckin' Guy is a concept EP by avant-garde artist John S. Hall released on March 10, 2015 under the name of his band King Missile IV by Powertool Records. [1] The album has been made when King Missile was touring with American band LoveyDove. [2] Two of their members had joined Hall in the making of the album. [3]

Contents

Concept

The album is a regroupement of poetic texts about the beauty of the world's landscapes narrated by a character known as The Fuckin' Guy. He comments what he sees and how he feels about it while swearing and cursing non-stop. There are barely any lines in the EP without a curse word. The settings are mostly in the New York area. [4]

Blog

The character of The Fuckin' Guy was created by John S. Hall in 2014 in a blogspot account named This Fckin' Blog. [5] It contains other texts on other subjects in the same style. The blog went on hiatus a couple of months after the release of the EP, and resumed shortly after Donald Trump assumed the presidency.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by John S. Hall; all music is composed by Azalia Snail and Dan West

No.TitleLength
1."Closet"4:15
2."Bike"3:13
3."Sunset"2:37
4."Stars"3:05
5."Moon"1:58
6."River"3:35

Personnel

Adapted from the This Fuckin' Guy liner notes. [6]

King Missile

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States2015PowertoolCDPT156

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References

  1. James, Falling (June 26, 2019). "Music Pick: John S. Hall & Loveydove". LA Weekly . Semanal Media LLC. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  2. "King Missile IV | John S. Hall".
  3. "King Missile IV – This Fuckin' Guy (2015), by PowertoolRecords".
  4. "KING MISSILE IV – This F'n' Guy (CD) – Flying Out". flyingout.co.nz. Archived from the original on 2015-03-28.
  5. http://thequestionat.blogspot.ca/ [ user-generated source ]
  6. This Fuckin' Guy (booklet). King Missile. New Lynn, Auckland: Powertool Records. 2015.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)