''Sexual Roulette'' is the second studio album by

Art Bergmann Arthur Frank Bergmann (born February 8, 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who was one of the key figures in Canadian punk rock in the late 1970s.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have ...

, released in 1990 on

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."Bergmann rocks on explosive edge". ''

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'', March 29, 1990. The album's title track is a song about

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. The album's most successful single was "Bound for Vegas", which received wide airplay on Canadian rock radio stations. The album was favourably reviewed by music critics, with many calling it a much stronger album than '' Crawl with Me''. It was named as one of the year's best albums by numerous critics, including John Mackie and Greg Potter of the ''

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'',"Critics choose their pop/rock top 10 of 1990". ''

'', December 20, 1990. Tom Harrison of ''

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''"A weirdly inconsistent 'best of' list". ''

'', January 3, 1991. and Mark Lepage of the ''

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''."1990: Rockers had a ball in court". ''

'', December 27, 1990. 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", and Potter described the album as "Art Bergmann in

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ish form" while simultaneously describing The Replacements' album ''

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'' as "Paul Westerberg in Art Bergmannish form".

Track listing

References

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