Skag Heaven

Skag Heaven
Studio album by Squirrel Bait
Released 1987
Recorded August 1986 at Sound on Sound, Crestwood
Genre Post-hardcore, alternative rock
Length 25:46
Label Homestead Records
Producer Squirrel Bait
Squirrel Bait chronology
Squirrel Bait
(1985)		 Skag Heaven
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Skag Heaven is the second record by the American punk rock band Squirrel Bait, released in 1987 through Homestead Records. Squirrel Bait disbanded after the album's release and the band's members went on to form Slint, Bastro and a number of other influential indie and post-rock bands.

Single

The band went into the studio with engineer Howie Gano in 1986 and recorded the songs "Kid Dynamite" and "Slake Train Coming". While listening to the mixes, guitarist David Grubbs invited Karl Meyer of local band Human Zoo to do some backtracked vocals based on a dream related by Julian Bevan from the Cincinnati hardcore band Sluggo: "Tiny people, tiny people. So small you can fit them in the palm of your hand. Prove that they're not real and win a hundred dollars." The lyrics can be heard, slowed down and played backwards, during the song's final instrumental section. At concerts, the band would speak the words (forwards) during the song. Grubbs re-recorded this backtracking for the LP version of the song.[2]

The single's two songs were not originally intended for inclusion on Skag Heaven, but the band only had eight songs for the album and wanted to release something longer than their first EP.[3]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Kid Dynamite"  3:10
2."Virgil's Return"  2:26
3."Black Light Poster Child"  1:55
4."Choose Yr Poison"  2:29
5."Short Straw Wins"  2:51
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Kick the Kat"  2:43
2."Too Close too the Fire"  1:55
3."Slake Train Coming"  2:32
4."Rose Island Road"  2:42
5."Tape from California"  2:59

All songs written by Squirrel Bait except for "Tape from California" by Phil Ochs.

Personnel

Squirrel Bait
Additional musicians and production

References

  1. ↑ Cook, Stephen. "allmusic ((( Skag Heaven > Review )))". Allmusic. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
  2. ↑ Meyer, Karl. "Tiny People". Squirrel Bait. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Crunch Gods from Kentucky Cal It a Day: The Saga of Squirrel Bait" (PDF). The Pope (9). 1987.


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