Come Visit the Big Bigot


Come Visit the Big Bigot is the sixth full length studio album by Australian experimental group Severed Heads, released in 1986. The tracks "Twenty Deadly Diseases" and "Propellor" were both released as singles to help promote the album. The title is a reference to the Big Merino statue in New South Wales; the 1998 Sevcom CD-R release has a photo of it on the cover.

Track listing

All songs written by Tom Ellard, except "Strange Brew," written by Eric Clapton, Felix Pappalardi and Gail Collins.
Original album
  • The Volition LP opens with the sound of an experiment Ellard did, in which he stuck a live microphone deep into a watermelon and dropped it from a second-story balcony. Footage of him doing this appeared on a segment about synthesis on the ABC program Edge of the Wedge. The words "THE SOUND OF A WATERMELON....!" were etched into the runout groove of Side One.
  • The Ink and Volition LP releases had "George the Animal" in the place of "Twenty Deadly Diseases," and did not credit "FM Stations Blow Up," but had it as the end of "Propellor," for a total length of 6:33.
  • The "SAM" in "SAM Loves You" is the early speech synthesis program S.A.M..
  • The Volition LP included the "Propellor" 12" EP, with "Propellor Two," remixed by Topsy Keevil, and "Propellor Three," "Twenty Deadly Diseases," and "Harold and Cindy Hospital," which were remixed by Robert Racic.
This release marked the first time the album used the original digital master tapes. This resulted in some songs starting and ending at different points from the original release.
This version has "Propellor" and "FM Stations Blow Up" as one track, shifting side 2 to tracks 7–11. 15 is actually the Casualty Mix.
Side 3 is 1–4, Side 4 is 5–8. This version has a significantly edited "FM Stations" coda at the end of "Propellor," total time 5:35.

Personnel