Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen (1997)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives (1990)
Royal Trux - Untitled (1993)

Despite the repulsive album art, Sweet Sixteen is one of Royal Trux's most accessible efforts. It's still noisy and drug-addled, to be sure, but it's generally more upbeat, and there are some slick-sounding keyboards. Accept the fact that you will never be as cool as this band, and just bask in their genius.

Track listing:
1. Don't Try Too Hard
2. Morphic Resident
3. The Pickup
4. Cold Joint
5. Golden Rules
6. You'll Be Staying in Room 323
7. Can't Have It Both Ways
8. 10 Days 12 Nights
9. Microwave Made
10. Sweet Sixteen
11. I'm Looking Through You
12. Roswell Seeds and Stems
13. Pol Pot Pie

You help me change my mind
You do it every time

Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives (1990)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Royal Trux - Untitled (1993)

Alright, enough fucking around: here's the most difficult, drug-addled, borderline unlistenable hipster noisefuck I can think of. Nothing before or after Twin Infinitives, including within Royal Trux's discography, has ever sounded like this record. Dense and virtually devoid of melody or rhythm, it's rock and roll torn apart and haphazardly slapped back together using laser SFX, broken amps, and LSD, with two NYC ghosts droning an endless stream of incomprehensible words over everything.

Track listing:
1. Solid Gold Tooth / Ice Cream / Jet Pet / RTX-USA / Kool Down Wheels
2. Chances Are the Comets in Our Future / Yin Jim Versus the Comet Creature / Osiris
3. (Edge of the) Ape of Oven
4. Florida Avenue Theme / Lick My Boots / Glitterbust / Funky Son / Ratcreeps / NY Avenue Bridge

Nothing but
Rim

Royal Trux - Untitled (1992)

In which NYC duo Royal Trux, having conquered the world of experimental 'rock' with the monolithic Twin Infinitives, start exploring more traditional songwriting, while retaining their ragged, noisy, drug-addled approach, and create the sound that would more or less provide the basis for the rest of their recorded output.

FUN FACT: Did you know that that song by the two skater kids in High Fidelity is actually "The Inside Game" by Royal Trux? This is not some huge secret - it's on the soundtrack under its actual name - but still, I didn't know that until years after the fact, so maybe you didn't know, either? Whatever, I don't have to explain myself to you, get the fuck out of my house.

Track listing:
1. Air
2. Move
3. Hallucination
4. Junkie Nurse
5. Sometimes
6. Lightning Boxer
7. Blood Flowers
8. Sun on the Run

Lovely nurse, my junkie nurse, I never wanna burn ya down, so just bring me a prescription when you next come downtown.