DESTROY ALL MONSTERS
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS / Killing Me Softly
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS / Killing Me Softly
Destroy All Monsters
Killing Me Softly 1995-96
Bound printed paper, box, mixed media
Number 218 from the edition of 250
This work is signed and numbered. Packaging includes a clear vinyl 7" record, housed in a fur lined box with a monster sticker designed by Mike Kelley. This work is sealed with a Band-Aid and tape and remaining fur inside box. This is also known as "The Monkey Fur Box".
Condition: Excellent, as new. Unopened.
Tracklist:
A Killing Me Softly
B Detroit Rock City
Bass – Greasy Carlisi
Guitar – Art Byington, Cary Loren, Jim Shaw (4)
Percussion – Mike Kelley
Released in an edition of 250 copies on clear vinyl and housed in a fur lined box with a monster sticker designed by Mike Kelley.
Destroy All Monsters started out as an anti-rock band: four midwestern art students - Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, and Niagara - with a mission to subvert the airwaves. Between 1975 and 1979, they produced six issues of DAM Magazine, a barrage of Kelley's perverse cartoons, Shaw and Loren's wild Xeroxed collages, and shots of the band; Niagara did a lot of the cover designs, and everything was crudely printed on cheap paper. "The images that drove us were the strange combinations of film noir, monster movies, psychedelia, thrift-shop values, and the relentless anarchy of an over-stimulated pop culture", recalls Cary Loren. This compilation is the definitive DAM document: hundreds of drawings, photos, Xeroxed artwork, reviews, profiles, and personal manifestos - plus a flexi-record bound into the book.