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List Price: $15.98 | | Label: Cleopatra
Salesrank: 441502
Released: July 29, 1994 |
| Our Price: $81.77 |
| Used Price: $9.38 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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X-Rated Fairy Tales/Superior Catholic Finger Track Listing:
1. Descent
2. Un-Human Condition
3. Invitation
4. X-Rated Fairy Tales
5. Blood Red
6. Mystery Room
7. Showdown
8. Sex Voodoo Venus
9. Money Man
10. Johnny
11. Monster Lust
12. Mustard Dog
13. Superior Catholic Finger
14. Too Bad
15. Bridge
16. Who Cares
17. Cookier Jar
18. Weekends
X-Rated Fairy Tales/Superior Catholic Finger Reviews:
Hallucinogenic Audio 
2005-07-03 - Helios Creed was/is a trailblazer into unexplored territories of psychedelic/industrial/space rock. He's painfully underrated among guitar innovators. These two albums, lovingly packaged together, will make a fine companion for your interstellar travels. This is some seriously inspired and groovy stuff here, even with an 80's type of pop sheen on a bit of it. My favorites are Unhuman Condition (so psychedelic it hurts!), Showdown, Cookie Jar, Who Cares.
Burning Chrome 
2002-03-09 - This CD reissue combines Helios Creed's first two solo LPs after his departure from the semi-legendary group Chrome and the hegemony the late Damon Edge had wielded as the group's chief sound architect. While Edge went on to make a few more (very bad) Chrome albums in the mid 80s, Helios Creed was busy fashioning a reputation as one of avant-rock's supreme axe murderers. Though neither X-Rated Fairy Tales nor Superior Catholic Finger are quite as good as Kiss to the Brain or Lactating Purple, both of these are worthwhile "spaced-punk" nuclear meltdowns in a pretty nice package by Cleopatra. There are a few standout tracks on each CD. "Monster Lust," "The Descent," and "Sex Voodoo Venus" are classic H. Creed--blistering guitar swathed in an array of mechanized drumbeats, twisted samples, and icy cold synthesizers. If you're a Chrome dome (i.e., an original Chrome fan from the late 70s)or a Creed fanatic, this is an essential package. I'm tempted to give this one four stars rather than three, but realistically it's probably not a four star product.