->''"It's a Revco World, today."''\\
-- '''Linger Ficken' Good'''

''Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life As a Revolting Cock'' is, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Chris Connelly's memoir of his time as a member of the Revolting Cocks]] in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The book begins in 1985, when Connelly is first introduced to [[{{Ministry}} Al Jourgensen]] and is invited to join the Revolting Cocks. Much [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]] and [[IntoxicationEnsues intoxication ensue]].

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!!Contains examples of:

* AffectionateNickname: Grumpy and Party, for Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder, respectively.
** Chris is dubbed "Pinky" by Al because of the way his face turns pink when he laughs too hard.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Indeed. [[SerialEscalation Its gets worse as you go.]]
* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Averted -- Bill Rieflin is actually one of the saner Cocks and as belligerent as Martin Atkins gets, he doesn't fit the stereotype, either.
* AllThereInTheManual: Working knowledge of PostPunk, {{Industrial}} and IndustrialMetal musicians is pretty much required reading for this book to make any sense. [[MindScrew And even that might not be enough]].
* TheAllegedCar: Paul Barker's van, Icky.
* AllStarCast: Look at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigface#Members how many people were members]] of Pigface!
* BadBoss: Al can be a ''big'' one, at times.
* BaldOfAwesome: [[Music/{{KMFDM}} En Esch]]
* [[BeleagueredAssistant Beleaguered Assistants]]: Barker and Rieflin, in addition to their status as the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]].
** At one point, Sean Joyce becomes one to Martin Atkins.
* BittersweetEnding: Moreso than a DownerEnding because of the tiny HopeSpot.
* BoisterousBruiser: Al Jourgensen, most prominently, who is also most definitely HotBlooded.
* BrutalHonesty: Steve Albini's specialty.
* BullyingADragon: Phildo Owen's decision to provoke truckers over the CB radio.
* CerebusSyndrome: About halfway through the book, this kicks-in as drug addiction and personality conflicts start to drive everyone apart. It reaches an apex around 1993, around the time that Jeff Ward killed himself.
* UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}: Home of [=WaxTrax=]
* ClusterFBomb: Too many to name.
* TheComicallySerious: Richard "23" Jonckheere, by virtue of his SmallNameBigEgo behavior.
* DeadpanSnarker: Steve Albini, though Connelly is quite the Deadpan Snarker himself.
* DisgustingPublicToilet: It wouldn't be a road story without one.
* TheDitz: Terry Bones and most of Phildo's friends.
--> "[He was] perhaps one rung up the genetic ladder from a garden fence."
* DrivenToSuicide: Jeff Ward and William Tucker, as well as one of Chris' girlfriends, Tracey.
* EagleLand: Connelly is from Scotland and his portrayal of the United States falls into Type III.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: It would probably be easier to list the people who ''aren't'' Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunettes.
* TheEighties: Setting of 1/3 of the book
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The female bassist on the second Pigface tour is simply known as "the female bass player."
* FiveManBand: For the bulk of the book...
** TheHero: Al Jourgensen
** [[TheLancer The Lancers]]: Luc van Acker, Paul Barker
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guys]]: Martin Atkins, Bill Rieflin
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guys]]: Phildo Owen, Mike Scaccia, Jeff Ward
** [[TheChick The Chicks]]: Chris Connelly, William Tucker
** [[SixthRanger Sixth Rangers]]: Nivek Ogre, Trent Reznor
** SixthRangerTraitor: Richard 23
** TeamMom: Patti Jourgensen, Jim Nash
** TagalongKid: Adrian Jourgensen
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Al is Choleric, Paul is Sanguine, Bill is Melancholic, Chris is Phlegmatic.
* FreudianTrio: Al is TheMcCoy, Paul is TheKirk, Bill is TheSpock.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The female bassist on the second Pigface tour.
** Also, Terry Bones for being a mediocre musician, breaking the shower in the bus, nearly getting everyone arrested and picking fights with other band members for no particular reason.
* FunetikAksent:
--> "We had no toime to seenk about it!!!"
--> "VOT EES THEES I AM HEARIIIING??!!!!" [[Music/{{KMFDM}} Sascha]] roared down the length of the bus.
* GenderBlenderName: Mary Byker
* GoingColdTurkey: Averted-- Al apparently tries once, and it doesn't work out so well. Justified, as he was withdrawing from heroin.
* GonzoJournalism: Possibly unintentional, but yes.
* {{Goth}}: Quite a few of them, both of the [[PerkyGoth Perky]] and Gloomy variety.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[SkinnyPuppy Nivek Ogre]], [[DeadKennedys Jello Biafra]] and [[NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] are the most obvious examples, though the same could be said for pretty much everyone in the book.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Patti Jourgensen is a redhead.
* IndustrialMetal: Duh.
* IntrepidReporter: Jason Pettigrew of the Alternative Press.
* IsItAlwaysLikeThis: There's no better example than Chris' second visit to the United States, when he comes in to find Al wearing a [[HornyVikings Viking helmet]], sitting on a rowing machine and cussing someone out over the phone.
* JerkAss: Let's just say there's a lot of them [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement and leave it at that]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Music/SteveAlbini and [[PublicImageLtd Martin Atkins]], though they'd both probably resent not being given full {{Jerkass}} status.
* LargeHam: Al, both off and onstage.
* LeadBassist: Paul Barker, being the only other official member of Ministry.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* {{Manchild}}: Many, with Al being the king of it.
* MoodWhiplash
* MushroomSamba:
--> The actual toilet bowel had turned into a huge shiny white snapping horse's head with angry black eyes.
* TheNineties: The setting of the rest of the book
* TheNotLoveInterest: Chris' romantic relationships always take a backseat to his friendship with William Tucker. He describes their first meeting as LoveAtFirstSight and the book ends not long after Tucker's suicide.
* OneOfUs: The references to ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'', DavidLynch, ''MysteryScienceTheatre3000'', ''ThisIsSpinalTap'' and ''Series/DoctorWho'' are proof-positive.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted-- there are at least two Williams (Rieflin and Tucker); two Jims (Thirlwell and Nash); two Pauls (Barker and Raven); two Chrises (Bruce and Connelly) and three Michaels (Balch, Scaccia, and World)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The engineers, Poodle, Princess[[hottip:*:either Julian Herzfeld and Steve Spapperi OR Jeff Newell and Dave Ogilvie]]; and Fluffy[[hottip:*:almost certainly Kevin Auerbach]]; a set designer, Angry Baby; one of Chris' girlfriends, Vogue...
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]]: Bill Rieflin, Luc van Acker and Paul Barker
* PointyHairedBoss: ''Far'' too many of the various tour managers.
* PromotedFanboy: Chris himself as well as Trent Reznor
* RagTagBunchOfMisfits
* SarcasticDevotee: Steve Albini to Martin Atkins and Bill Rieflin, after the founding of Pigface.
* SelfDeprecation:
--> In hindsight, how could she resist a chain-smoking morose Scottish drunk who had not showered for days, and who was slumped on a sofa acting like he was the second coming of Peter O' fucking Toole?
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Goes without saying
* ShaggyDogStory: ''Many''
* SmugSnake: Richard 23 is probably the biggest.
* TheStoner / EruditeStoner: Pretty much everyone is one or the other.
* TheSvengali: Both Al and Martin Atkins verge on this trope, though neither of them as good at it as they want to be.
* TakeThat: Too many to list.
* TalkerAndDoer: Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, the co-founders of the [=WaxTrax=] label, respectively.
* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: Al's predictions for the Revolting Cocks and/or Ministry's success never materialize.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Frankie Nardiello and Marston Daley, as well as the two crew members Connelly refers to as "[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname the Poodle and the Princess]]."
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
* ToAbsentFriends: [[TearJerker Postscripts 2 and 3]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: Terry Bones, especially after the incident with a fan who presses assault charges against him.
* TragicBromance: Connelly's relationship with William Tucker. So very much.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Terry Bones and his wife
* VerbalTic: Al uses "man" so often it slides into this trope.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Averted, though that might be because Connelly is actually from Edinburgh.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Al and almost all of his collaborators. Oddly, his relationships with his [[YesMan Yes Men]] are entirely Type I. Type II is reserved solely for the non-doormats in his life.
** Martin Atkins is also very much the Vitriolic Best Bud of the other members of Pigface.
* WackyFratboyHijinx
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Bill Rieflin
* YaoiGuys: Jim and Dannie. Both were pretty much StraightGay.
* YesMan: Al has quite a few throughout the book, who [[MadLove live to take his abuse]]. Phildo Owen gets the most page time out of them.

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