Michel Foucault
Slapback Flathead and the Switchblade Boys
1) Discipline and Punishment (Ain’t That a Shame)
2) The Order of Things (All Shook Up)
3) I Wanna Be Your Subject
4) Panel Discussion Baby
5) Truth is a Practice
6) Crazy Little Thing Called Power
7) Ain't Nobody's Body
8) You Can't Handle the Truth
Michel Foucault Slapback Flathead and the Switchblade Boys
Grab your switchblade comb and slick back that pompadour, 'cause the boys are back with a record that'll have you doing the bop in a prison yard. Slapback Flathead and the Switchblade Boys take the smartest Frenchman who ever picked apart a panopticon and give him the full boogie-woogie treatment: slapback bass, twangy guitars, and a whole lot of hip-shaking philosophy. Eight tracks of pure rockabilly swagger tackle discipline, power, truth, and the docile little bodies caught in between, proving once and for all that critical theory and a two-and-a-half-minute rock and roll song were always meant to go steady. It's Sun Records meets the Sorbonne, and honey, you can't handle the truth.
Turn it up. The panel's in session, and the jury's dancing.
