# Sexual Roulette

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Sexual Roulette
| type       = studio
| artist     = [Art Bergmann](/source/Art_Bergmann)
| cover      = File:ArtBergmannSexualRouletteAlbumCover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1990
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Alternative rock](/source/Alternative_rock)
| length     = 46:20
| label      = [Duke Street](/source/Duke_Street_Records)
| producer   = [Chris Wardman](/source/Chris_Wardman)
| prev_title = [Crawl with Me](/source/Crawl_with_Me)
| prev_year  = 1988
| next_title = [Art Bergmann](/source/Art_Bergmann_(album))
| next_year  = 1991
}}

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

The album's title track is a song about [HIV/AIDS](/source/HIV%2FAIDS).<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](/source/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](/source/Crawl_with_Me)''.<ref>"Steering a new course". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', October 18, 1990.</ref><ref>"Great! Bergmann gets down in the gutter again". ''[Vancouver Sun](/source/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](/source/Vancouver_Sun)'',<ref name=critics>"Critics choose their pop/rock top 10 of 1990". ''[Vancouver Sun](/source/Vancouver_Sun)'', December 20, 1990.</ref> Tom Harrison of ''[The Province](/source/The_Province)''<ref>"A weirdly inconsistent 'best of' list". ''[The Province](/source/The_Province)'', January 3, 1991.</ref> and Mark Lepage of the ''[Montreal Gazette](/source/Montreal_Gazette)''.<ref name=lepage>"1990: Rockers had a ball in court". ''[Montreal Gazette](/source/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 Westerberg](/source/Paul_Westerberg)ish form" while simultaneously describing [The Replacements](/source/The_Replacements_(band))' album ''[All Shook Down](/source/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
}}

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