Sexual Roulette is the second studio album by Art Bergmann, released in 1990 on Duke Street Records.[1]

Sexual Roulette
Studio album by
Released1990
GenreAlternative rock
Length46:20
LabelDuke Street
ProducerChris Wardman
Art Bergmann chronology
Crawl with Me
(1988)
Sexual Roulette
(1990)
Art Bergmann
(1991)

The album's title track is a song about HIV/AIDS.[1] The album's most successful single was "Bound for Vegas", which received wide airplay on Canadian rock radio stations.[2]

The album was favourably reviewed by music critics, with many calling it a much stronger album than Crawl with Me.[3][4] It was named as one of the year's best albums by numerous critics, including John Mackie and Greg Potter of the Vancouver Sun,[5] Tom Harrison of The Province[6] and Mark Lepage of the Montreal Gazette.[7] Lepage wrote that "there's a drunkard, a wife-beater or a psycho on every big-city street, and Vancouver's Art Bergmann writes and sings as if he's met them all",[7] and Potter described the album as "Art Bergmann in Paul Westerbergish form" while simultaneously describing The Replacements' album All Shook Down as "Paul Westerberg in Art Bergmannish form".[5]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Bound for Vegas"3:18
2."Sexual Roulette"5:04
3."Bar of Pain"3:31
4."Hospital Song"3:43
5."Sleep"4:40
6."Dirge No. 1"6:19
7."Swamp Food Thing"3:05
8."Gambol"3:48
9."SheHit Me"4:11
10."More Blue Shock"4:37
11."Deathwatch"4:04

References

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  1. ^ a b "Bergmann rocks on explosive edge". Toronto Star, March 29, 1990.
  2. ^ "Art puts snarl back in rock". The Province, April 16, 1990.
  3. ^ "Steering a new course". The Globe and Mail, October 18, 1990.
  4. ^ "Great! Bergmann gets down in the gutter again". Vancouver Sun, April 14, 1990.
  5. ^ a b "Critics choose their pop/rock top 10 of 1990". Vancouver Sun, December 20, 1990.
  6. ^ "A weirdly inconsistent 'best of' list". The Province, January 3, 1991.
  7. ^ a b "1990: Rockers had a ball in court". Montreal Gazette, December 27, 1990.