Death Of Samantha was formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1983 by singer and guitarist John Petkovic (son of Serbian exiles), taking its name from the title of a Yoko Ono song and its backbone from the remnants of Reactions (bassist Dave Swanson) and Suspect Devices (guitarist Doug Gillard).

The second album, Where The Women Wear The Glory And The Men Wear The Pants (Homestead, 1988), is their most aggressive, compact, and straightforward work. Opening in epic fashion with Harlequin Tragedy, perhaps their most famous track, a scratchy power-pop anthem with a refrain that crosses Doors and Sex Pistols (with the historic lines "We're living for nothing/ and dying for less"), the album oscillates between anthemic tone (echoed by Savior City) and disenchanted chronicler tone. The bulk of the work is made up of fast, free-running rock'n'roll like Good Friday (heavy-metal panzer bass and rowdy Southern boogie guitar), Monkey Face (a Cramps-esque rattling rockabilly with piano and rhythm'n'blues horn section that mutates into a Bo Diddley-esque tribal jam), and Staring Through It Now (even more boisterous and rowdy). Blood Creek and Lucky Dog are more extended psychodramas, evoking the psychedelic civilization of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon, and Jefferson Airplane. The former, in particular, burns with a spasmodic fever. Everything coagulates around Petkovic's vibrant baritone, Gillard's high-voltage electric shocks, and the tremors of the irrepressible rhythm section. It is a record of "classic" rock masterfully executed with punk eagerness, a flawless work that gives no respite from beginning to end. Petkovic's emphatic, Brecht-ian declamation mixes the operatic, decadent tone of Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry, David Byrne's intellectual neurosis and the jovial call to arms of the Fleshtones' Peter Zaremba.

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Tracklist:

Harlequin Tragedy 00:00
Good Friday 05:50
Sylvia Plath 09:20
Lucky Dog (Lost My Pride) 12:51
Monkey Face 20:42
Savior City 24:28
Staring Through It Now 28:37
That's All That Matters 31:54
Blood Creek 34:49

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