Sexual Roulette

{{Infobox album | name = Sexual Roulette | type = studio | artist = Art Bergmann | cover = File:ArtBergmannSexualRouletteAlbumCover.jpg | alt = | released = 1990 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Alternative rock | length = 46:20 | label = Duke Street | producer = Chris Wardman | prev_title = Crawl with Me | prev_year = 1988 | next_title = Art Bergmann | next_year = 1991 }}

'''''Sexual Roulette''''' is the second studio album by Art Bergmann, released in 1990 on Duke Street Records.<ref name=rockson>"Bergmann rocks on explosive edge". ''Toronto Star'', March 29, 1990.</ref>

The album's title track is a song about HIV/AIDS.<ref name=rockson/> The album's most successful single was "Bound for Vegas", which received wide airplay on Canadian rock radio stations.<ref>"Art puts snarl back in rock". ''The Province'', April 16, 1990.</ref>

The album was favourably reviewed by music critics, with many calling it a much stronger album than ''Crawl with Me''.<ref>"Steering a new course". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 18, 1990.</ref><ref>"Great! Bergmann gets down in the gutter again". ''Vancouver Sun'', April 14, 1990.</ref> It was named as one of the year's best albums by numerous critics, including John Mackie and Greg Potter of the ''Vancouver Sun'',<ref name=critics>"Critics choose their pop/rock top 10 of 1990". ''Vancouver Sun'', December 20, 1990.</ref> Tom Harrison of ''The Province''<ref>"A weirdly inconsistent 'best of' list". ''The Province'', January 3, 1991.</ref> and Mark Lepage of the ''Montreal Gazette''.<ref name=lepage>"1990: Rockers had a ball in court". ''Montreal Gazette'', December 27, 1990.</ref> 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",<ref name=lepage/> 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".<ref name=critics />

==Track listing== {{track listing | title1 = Bound for Vegas | length1 = 3:18 | title2 = Sexual Roulette | length2 = 5:04 | title3 = Bar of Pain | length3 = 3:31 | title4 = Hospital Song | length4 = 3:43 | title5 = Sleep | length5 = 4:40 | title6 = Dirge No. 1 | length6 = 6:19 | title7 = Swamp Food Thing | length7 = 3:05 | title8 = Gambol | length8 = 3:48 | title9 = SheHit Me | length9 = 4:11 | title10 = More Blue Shock | length10 = 4:37 | title11 = Deathwatch | length11 = 4:04 }}

==References== {{reflist|2}}

Category:1990 albums Category:Art Bergmann albums