Vinyl Record
The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Totally Religious
The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Totally Religious on LP vinyl. A 1989 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1989
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1989 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Totally Religious is the Screaming Blue Messiahs' final studio album, released in 1989, and it keeps the band's strange collision of rockabilly nerve, punk attack and hard urban humour intact. This is not polished late-1980s rock trying to flatter the listener. It is wiry, abrasive and rhythmically wired, with Bill Carter's guitar and voice pushing the songs like a street-corner sermon with the amp turned too high. The record arrived after Bikini Red and carries the feeling of a band burning through its last major-label chapter. That gives it a particular collector pull: it is the end of a short, sharp catalogue from a group that never quite fit the standard boxes of alternative rock, blues rock or punk.
Totally Religious matters because it closes the Screaming Blue Messiahs story with the same awkward, high-voltage personality that made them cult rather than comfortable. At a time when late-1980s guitar music could easily become polished or overproduced, the band still sound tense, angular and slightly hostile to easy categorisation. The album also preserves a particular trio attack: guitar, bass and drums pushed toward rockabilly, blues, punk and urban paranoia without settling neatly into any of them. That refusal to fit is the point. Totally Religious is valuable because it sounds like a band whose edges were never designed for smoothing.
Best for collectors who like late-1980s guitar records with teeth: rockabilly bones, punk speed and a refusal to sound streamlined. It is also an endpoint record, which gives it extra shelf logic. If a collection values short, strange catalogues and bands that burned brightly outside the main story, Totally Religious earns its place as the final chapter rather than a footnote.
Tense guitar rock with punk velocity, rockabilly angles, dry humour and a hard-edged trio attack.
Recommended for: The Screaming Blue Messiahs collectors; Listeners building a researched vinyl shelf; Collectors who want album context, not only stock data; Gift buyers choosing a record with a clear story; Browsers comparing related records and catalogue eras.
When was Totally Religious released? It was released in 1989. What kind of band were the Screaming Blue Messiahs? They mixed punk energy, rockabilly drive and abrasive guitar rock. Why is it collectable? It is their final studio album and a cult endpoint rather than a mainstream rock standard.