This post represents a hat trick of angry guitar records taking a look at relationships going wrong. We’ve done mutual contempt and followed that with a sense that things need to change one way or another. But Eat Your Heart Out lands us on the day of armageddon, with the rawness of a split that feels like it’s no more than 24 hours old, and which has left singer, Simone Holsbeek, furious rather than devastated.
The liner notes on Cords’s debut album, Taurus No Bull include the lyrics to all of the tracks, and in the case of Eat Your Heart Out, we learn that this break-up came as something of a surprise but that it also confirmed certain suspicions that Holsbeek had of their lover. The more I listen to the song, the more I suspect that its title is self-referential rather than an instruction to someone else. The end of the affair has torn out Holsbeek’s heart as if the Hounds of Hell themselves had done it, hence the line, It must be a mad dog. If you, or someone you know, has recently suffered from a breakup, I urge you to play them this and get them to the angry phase as quickly as possible. You’ll be doing them an invaluable service.
At this point in their career, Cords were putting out records through TVT Records, but the band may also have had room to vent their anger if they saw the sleeve for the Eat Your Heart Out single put out on limited edition red vinyl by Fuel Records, not least because the label spelled their name wrong. The error was not repeated when the band put out a single on Fuel called American Woman the following year.
Video courtesy of A Giant Sloar (that’s my favourite part of Ghostbusters too).
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