The Teaches of Peaches
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  • Summary: While, like other artists lumped under the "electroclash" label, the Canadian-born Peaches (Merrill Nisker) utilizes a vaguely early-80s style synth-based sound, no one else, then or now, has managed to be quite as raw, lewd and sexually graphic as she.

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Fuck The Pain Away
Sucking on my titties like you wanted me Calling me, all the time like Blondie Check out my chrissy behind It's fine all of the time Like sex on the... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. PopMatters
    80
    Sexy, compelling, fun, and strange, The Teaches of Peaches is one of the year's defining albums.
  2. AllMusic
    80
    These lo-fi crunches carve out a retro-minimalist experimentation not often found in musical eroticism.
  3. Mixer
    80
    The best sex-obsessed album since Prince's Dirty Mind. [Nov 2002, p.78]
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  4. Rolling Stone
    70
    If "Diddle'' and the rest of The Teaches of Peaches weren't so surreally funny, nasty and funky, they would be unbearable.
  5. Splendid
    70
    The Teaches of Peaches is as tacky and low-budget as a '70s porno flick...and just as much fun.
  6. Playlouder
    70
    A techno electro smart-ass punky rap thing that'll detonate in your living room.
  7. Drawer B
    20
    So what’s the appeal? Sure, there’s a kitsch factor, and her fearlessness exhibits a respectful amount of bravado, I suppose. But none of that changes the fact that the music is insipid and boring, “sexually explicit lyrics” and all.

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  1. sahram
    Mar 3, 2003
    10
    i like to put this on when i have my parents over to my apartment
  2. CDizzness
    Jan 7, 2020
    10
    This album is creative, ingenious, sexually explicit in all the right ways, and raw. Yes, the sexually charged innuendos come from a femaleThis album is creative, ingenious, sexually explicit in all the right ways, and raw. Yes, the sexually charged innuendos come from a female perspective, but it's totally relatable to a dirty boy like me. F**k...the pain away, and diddle my skittle, suck and let gooooo...but before you set it off play with my AA, XXXs. Mmmm, can you see my favorite tracks, Lovett*ts? Felix Partz can.… Expand
  4. JamieW
    May 10, 2004
    10
    this is the shit of all music!!! PEACHES ROCK!!!!
  5. gagaforever
    Oct 7, 2010
    10
    When I first heard "F*** the Pain Away"...I was hooked. I bought the 2 disc version of this album and I LOVED IT!!!! Even though Peaches'sWhen I first heard "F*** the Pain Away"...I was hooked. I bought the 2 disc version of this album and I LOVED IT!!!! Even though Peaches's lyrics are very dirty and sexual you cannot help but loving it. The other album are great also!!… Expand
  6. AdamR
    Nov 3, 2002
    8
    Bloody good, one of those artists to definitely keep an eye on.

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