Carmen
Darling darling
Carmen
All dressed up with nowhere to go
This isn't nostalgia. It's an autopsy.
TAINT was a teenage dream — assembled in hotel rooms with ceiling fans turning above overflowing ashtrays.
They screamed anyway. Screamed down the microphones until stadiums caved in. Screamed until the American dream bled from the nose. This book is what was left once the lights cut, the contracts burned, and the police shut the final door behind them.
The debut. Three chords, two screams, a ripped flag on the sleeve. Recorded in twelve days, banned in three states, sold out in two weeks. The punk the broadcasters called 'hysteria'.
The witches' record. Lyrics half-stolen from Emily Brontë and laid over cocaine-wet basslines. The industry starts, for the first time, to be afraid of them.
The record that turned them into saints. Sessions halted three times by overdoses. Cracked stained glass, church organs.
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