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Anal Cunt is a [[Stealth Parody]]. You need to know this before you take a look at some of the band's song titles and get all offended.
Anal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C. for censorship reasons, was an American [[Grindcore]] band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988. The band was known for its frequent lineup changes, ending with Seth Putnam, Tim Morse, and Josh Martin. They built a name for themselves from extremely offensive lyrics and song titles as well as a distinct (and distinctly painful) musical style that took Grindcore well beyond its initial limits. Songs rarely lasted for more than a minute, thus, it was not uncommon for their albums to include 40-50 tracks, but with song titles such as "I Lit Your Baby On Fire," "Recycling Is Gay," "I Sent Concentration Camp Footage to ''America's Funniest Home Videos''", and "[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Howard Wulkan is Bald]]", perhaps brevity was a good thing. They were also known for being shamelessly tongue-in-cheek, releasing, among other things, an acoustic grindcore single, EPs with increasingly and ridiculously large amounts of songs in them, and a completely insincere acoustic folk album, comically at odds with their entire discography.
The band folded, however, in June of 2011, when Putnam suffered a heart attack and died. He was 43.
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=== Tropes that apply to Anal Cunt include: ===
* [[Acceptable Targets]] - [[In-Universe|They railed on]] everyone and everything, including [[Self
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Fairly common:
{{quote| (fill in the blank) is dumb<br />
(fill in the blank) is gay<br />
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{{quote| PARENTAL ADVISORY: AC LYRICS}}
* [[Genre Adultery]] - ''Picnic of Love'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Fuckin' A.''
* [[Genre Savvy]]/[[Self
* [[Grindcore]] - They were a parody of it by making their songs '''go [[Up to Eleven]].'''
* [[Harsh Vocals]]: Seth was notorious for both his constant screaming and his capacity to sound like he used lye for mouthwash.
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* [[Intentionally Awkward Title]] - The band's name, as well as most of their songs.
* [[In the Style Of]]: For a while, they would turn everything from The Guess Who's "American Woman" to the theme song to ''[[Threes Company]]'' into grindcore, and there's also the self-explanatory "Stayin' Alive (Oi Version)".
* [[
* [[Laser
** Reportedly, he played "You're in a Coma" and "Pull the Plug" at a concert after his hospitalization.
** Additionally, "Ha Ha Your Wife Left You." He later got divorced. Allegedly, follow-ups to both were written, but didn't get recorded.
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* [[Motor Mouth]]: More often than not, the lyrics are incomprehensible because Putnam sang so damn fast.
* [[No Such Thing As Bad Publicity]]: Putnam mailed copies of "Morbid Florist" to people who wouldn't like it just to get unfavorable reviews.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Examples of song titles: "I Went Back in Time and Voted for Hitler"; "I Sent Concentration Camp Footage to [[Americas Funniest Home Videos|America's Funniest Home Videos]]"; "I Became a Counselor so I Could Tell Rape Victims They Asked for It"; "Conor Clapton Committed Suicide Because [[Eric Clapton|His Father]] Sucks" (changed for the record label's fear of being sued to "Your Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck"), "You're In a Coma" (which became very ironic when Putnam fell into a coma in 2004 as a result of a drug overdose), and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|"Hitler was a Sensitive Man"]].
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]] - [[Sarcasm Mode|Gee, I wonder what possibly could be offensive about a band that calls itself "Anal Cunt".]]
* [[Running Gag]] - Two throughout "I Like It When You Die:" "(X) Is Gay" and "You (X)/You Are (X)" which culminated near the end of the album in "You (Fill In The Blank).
* [[Self
** The cover of ''Howard is Bald'' has self-caricatures of them, including a fat drunken bucktoothed Seth Putnam.
** "Hey, who complimented us by saying we're a bunch of Nazis?"
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** "Chris Barnes is a Pussy", written after Chris Barnes (of Six Feet Under and formerly [[Cannibal Corpse]]) challenged Seth to a fight but never showed up.
*** Sometimes, their Take Thats are inside jokes between them and the targets. "Anyone Who Likes [[The Dillinger Escape Plan]] Is A Faggot", "Howard Wulkan's Bald", "Kyle from Incantation Has A Mustache" and any song with "Mike" or "Mike Mahan" (one of the former guitarists) in the title are playful (for AC) ribs towards the subjects.
** The song "Locking Drop Dead in McDonald's" refers to influential hardcore punk band Dropdead, whose members are all members of PETA and the ALF, as well as being vegan. Anal Cunt did indeed lock them in a [[
** Another example is "Extreme Noise Terror are Afraid of Us", written after Anal Cunt were kicked off a tour in 1997 by Extreme Noise Terror.
** "The Word Homophobic is Gay" features the lines "Anti-homophobe by Brutal Truth / Is a pathetic attempt to be PC / Kevin's obviously not a homophobe / Because he's a fucking faggot!"
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]] - The Nazis were mentioned frequently as an attempt to offend people.
** The band took it as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X7z59C46fc a compliment] before a fight broke out.
* [[Title
* [[The Unintelligible]] - The lyrics are often nigh-impossible to discern, thanks to Seth's reptile-growl-roar-thing. Yes, that's not just pure screaming, there are ''lyrics''.
* [[Unplugged Version]]: parodied by their ''Unplugged'' EP: Side A is their songs played with undistorted (but still electric) guitar, Side B is a live performance where their current guitarist played an electric guitar that was ''literally'' unplugged, as in not plugged in.
* [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste]]: They strove to be deliberately [[So Bad
* [[Three Chords and The Truth]]
* [[Up to Eleven]] - As if ''AxCx'' wasn't enough, Putnam also set up ''another'' [[Stealth Parody]] act in the form of "acoustic black metal" band ''Impaled Northern Moonforest'', lampooning the ridiculously "[[Grimdark|grim]] and [[Grim Up North|frostbitten]]" lyrics of many a [[Black Metal]] band.
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