Action Park
Big Black
Rapeman
Shellac

The Songs Cables
Bad Houses
Bad Penny
Bazooka Joe
Big Money
The Big Payback
Bombastic Intro
Cables
Colombian Necktie
Crack
Dead Billy
Deep Six
Ergot
Fish Fry
Fists Of Love
Grinder
The Hammer Party
Heartbeat
He's A Whore
I Can Be Killed
I Can't Believe
Il Duce
I'm A Mess
Jordan Minnesota
Jump The Climb
Kasimir S. Pulaski Day
Kerosene
Kitty Empire
L Dopa
Live In A Hole
The Model
My Disco
My House
NewManGenerator
Passing Complexion
Pavement Saw
Pete, King Of The Detectives
Pigeon Kill
The Power Of Independent Trucking
Precious Thing
Racer X
Ready Men
Rema-Rema
The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
Rip
Seth
Shotgun
Sleep
Songs About Fucking
Steelworker
Stinking Drunk
Texas
Things To Do Today
Tiny, King Of The Jews
The Ugly American
our interests in death, force and domination can change the way we think. make us seek out new forms of "entertainment." ever been in a slaughterhouse?

Well, I don't know why we come here
Guess I just needed the bang
We watch 'em beef, and then we pull on the rope
And then the, then the hammer comes down
Cables, cables, cables
So I guess they know
I'm not no company man
But I can pull on a rope, I can kill a cow
Fast as any other fucker can
Cables, cables, cables

cDc #84: The song "Cables" -- was there any specific incident that inspired that?

Steve Albini: There are these guys that I used to know in [Hellgate] high school, in Montana -- they just really got off on going to the slaughterhouse for entertainment. Just go to the slaughterhouse and watch the cows get killed. That was like TV for them. It was that or go home in the trailer park and get drunk. Sniff glue. There was nothing else to do. One time I remember specifically this guy telling me about this guy who let him drag a cow into the stall. The way they do it is pretty cool. They take a pressurized gun and drive a bolt through the snout of a cow, and they clip a cable to either side of the bolt. And then there's this winch that hauls the cow into the stall, and then there's a compression hammer that crushes the cow's skull.

This guy thought this was just about the coolest process -- all this machinery and technology. It's just another example of what people do for fun.