The album also includes an oddball girl group homage, "Summer Nite," about Williams losing the man of her dreams at a rock show ( the Angels, of "My Boyfriend's Back" fame, add backing vocals), and an eight-minute instrumental, "Plasma Jam," which wears out its welcome at the half-way mark. Williams and her bandmates chant in Latin (or something that sounds like it) over a plodding minor-key synthesizer line, Beyond the Valley of 1984 aims to sound bigger, more expansive and more "important" than the purposefully trashy debut, though as a consequence it also sounds a good bit more pretentious, especially when Williams launches a rant against cops, government and the press on the final cut "A Pig Is a Pig" (the latter target rather ironic, given the way the band courted media attention). Opening with the arty gloom 'n' doom of the opening cut "Incantation," in which Wendy O. After the jackhammer, metal-tinged punk rock of their debut album New Hope for the Wretched, the Plasmatics got a lot more ambitious with their second long-player, 1981's Beyond the Valley of 1984.
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