Prick was the kinda odd industrial project of Kevin McMahon, the former front man of new wave act Lucky Pierre. Lucky Pierre's claim to fame was probably its inclusion of Trent Reznor as a member at one point in the '80s. McMahon and Reznor remained friends which eventually led to Prick's debut, self-titled album being released on Reznor's Nothing Records. The album flirted with success based on the single "Animal," which had all the hallmarks of industrial pop at the time, but i think the record as a whole was ultimately too weird for the mainstream. I loved it. Here's the album's closing track "Makebelieve," our Daily Jam.
As a record collector, one of the"Holy Grails" i've been searching for for a long while now is the 1988 "Communiqué" EP from the crunchy, industrial new wave band Lucky Pierre. The record's claim to fame is the appearance of a pre-Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor providing keyboards and backing vocals for the Kevin McMahon lead project. The two would later work together again when Reznor produced and released the debut album from McMahon's Prick project. The title track from this '88 EP ended up rerecorded for that album, but let's check out the original today. "Communiqué," our Daily Jam.
