The Greatest Gift (Scratch Acid album)

The Greatest Gift
Compilation album by Scratch Acid
Released	1991
Recorded	December 1982 (1982-12)–October 1986 (1986-10)
Genre	Noise rock
Length	75:09
Label	Touch and Go
Producer	Kerry Crafton, Fred Remmert, T Zero
Scratch Acid chronology
Berserker (1986) The Greatest Gift (1991)

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The Greatest Gift is a posthumously-released compilation album by Scratch Acid, containing everything they had recorded.

Included is one unreleased track, "The Scale Song", which was recorded in December 1982..

The "Scale Song" was the last song recorded on the band's original demo, and was likely included because it was an instrumental, and did not have a vocal track by the groups first singer, Steve Anderson.

Track listing

• Tracks 1-8: Scratch Acid
• Tracks 9-21: Just Keep Eating
• Tracks 22-27: Berserker

1. "Cannibal" – 2:24
2. "Greatest Gift" – 2:11
3. "Monsters" – 1:19
4. "Owner's Lament" – 4:39
5. "She Said" – 2:27
6. "Mess" – 2:22
7. "El Espectro" – 3:39
8. "Lay Screaming" – 2:47
9. "Crazy Dan" – 4:13
10. "Eyeball" – 2:06
11. "Big Bone Lick" – 3:48
12. "Unlike a Baptist" – 2:31
13. "Damned for All Time" – 2:05
14. "Ain't That Love" – 2:23
15. (untitled) – 0:29
16. "Holes" – 2:00
17. "Albino Slug" – 3:26
18. "Spit a Kiss" – 2:02
19. "Amicus" – 3:15
20. "Cheese Plug" – 2:45
21. (untitled) – 2:20
22. "Mary Had a Little Drug Problem" – 2:16
23. "For Crying out Loud" – 3:06
24. "Moron's Moron" – 3:13
25. "Skin Drips" – 2:42
26. "This Is Bliss" – 2:16
27. "Flying Houses" – 3:08
28. "The Scale Song" – 3:04

Personnel

• Brett Bradford  – guitar
• David Wm. Sims – bass guitar
• Rey Washam – drums
• David Yow – vocals

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