Produced by brad wood, who also produced the bands debut american thighs, it is the first to feature the bands original lineup since their second album, eight arms to hold you. Features song lyrics for veruca salts american thighs album. With their thin, singsong vocals and fuzzedout guitars, veruca salt may sound like the breeders and the pixies, but lack either bands talent for inverting pop conventions or taste for the bizarre. Veruca salt was formed alongside the friendship of louise post and nina gordon. The bands first release was the single seetherall hail me on minty fresh records, in 1994. American thighs studio album by veruca salt released in 1994. Jul 2015 14 songs dec 2008 14 songs jan 1996 14 songs veruca salt reshaped the jagged, abrasive punkpop of the pixies and breeders into a more accessible, riffdriven power pop formula that also borrowed from pophard rockers like cheap trick. Veruca salt biography, albums, streaming links allmusic. One of my all time favorites from back in the 1990s, veruca salt all the way baby. Listen to american thighs veruca salt online music. The band consists of louise post vocals, guitar, nina gordon vocals, guitar, steve lack bass and gordons brother jim shapiro drums. Spin is an affiliate site of billboard, a subsidiary of prometheus global media, llc about spin privacy policy copyright. A thrilling, transgressive assault, the album which made its debut 25 years ago this. Veruca salt american thighs lyrics and tracklist genius.
They would call her veruca salt, after roald dahls character in that book of his. Veruca salt american thighs 180 gram vinyl on popmarket. If you remember 1994, then you remember seether, veruca salts catchy top 8 altrock hit off their debut lp american thighs. Veruca salt is an alternative rock group from chicago, illinois, usa formed in 1993. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. If file is multipart dont forget to check all parts before downloading.
Veruca salt american thighs 1994 25 nina gordons 25 is a stunner. American thighs shows veruca salt in a rawer, less polished capacity. Veruca salt new songs, albums, biography, chart history, photos, videos, news, and more on billboard, the goto source for whats hot in music. One listen to colleen green or charly bliss, though, is all it takes to recognize the chicago bands importance, even if just with 1994s american thighs. Seether first rocked the radio 20 years ago, and the album it heralded american thighs gave us 12 more tracks of blissfully fuzzedout grunge pop. Years later, the singles title would inspire a perplexingly popular corporate postpostpostgrunge band who no more resemble seether than american thighs resembled acdc.
Produced by brad wood liz phair, the record became a wordofmouth sensation, working its way to alternative and college radio stations. It was originally released through minty fresh on september 27, 1994. The bands name is inspired by a fictional character created by roald dahl. Why veruca salts american thighs is the great lost album of the. When louise post and nina gordon met, they had a dream that they could make a female supergroup. Influential 90s indie rockers veruca salt reissue their debut album, american thighs, for a 20th anniversary vinyl edition edition. Seether is neither loose nor tight seether is neither black nor white i tried to keep her on a short leash i tried to calm her down i tried to ram her into the ground. Veruca salt certainly did as american thighs catapulted them from the. American thighs, an album by veruca salt on spotify. Innocent by veruca salt lyrics damnlyrics all lyrics. Veruca salts original lineup preps new album ghost notes. In the classic roald dahl kids book charlie and the chocolate factory, veruca salt is an obnoxious, spoiled rich brat.
To celebrate vinyl reissue of american thighs, which was originally put out 20 years ago, veruca salt has reached into the archives to put. Brad wood, who helmed the bands 1994 debut, american thighs, has come aboard again to produce ghost notes. It was a successful formula, both musically and commercially, yet it didnt. American thighs is the first debut album by the band veruca salt. On november 4, 2014, minty fresh will reissue american thighs on 180gram vinyl in celebration of its 20th birthday.
American thighs is the debut studio album by american alternative rock band veruca salt. I tried to keep her on a short leash, i tried to calm her. While supporting hole on their fall tour, veruca salt released the debut album american thighs on the minty fresh label, yet they soon cut a majorlabel deal with geffen, which then rereleased the album. Veruca salt forsythia on mtv 120 minutes 1994 live in studio performance. Listen free to veruca salt american thighs get back, all hail me and more. The song appeared in the film young adult and the tv shows hindsight and halt and catch fire. The nineties never sounded better than when veruca salts american thighs was blasting at maximum volume. Veruca salt is an american alternative rock band founded in chicago, illinois, united states, in 1992 by vocalistguitarists nina gordon and louise post, drummer jim shapiro and bassist steve lack. Newbury comics issued an exclusive clear red, direct metal mastered, 180gram lp limited to only 300 pieces.
Veruca salt american thighs vinyl reissue teaser 2. Meets her messy end in the nut room, where she ends up down the garbage chute. Veruca salt is an american alternative rock band founded in chicago, illinois, united states. Theyre best known for their 1994 song seether and have released 5 studio albums. The guitar distortion is extra crunchy and the drums sound more organic.
Veruca salt, ghost notes on ghost notes, its first album in nearly a decade and the first by its original members since 1997, veruca salt embraces a throwback sound with obvious joy. She seems sweet and innocent from the surface, but she yells, screams and gets aggressive when she doesnt get her way. Click download file button or copy veruca salt mmxiv url which shown in textarea when you clicked file title, and paste it into your browsers address bar. The title is a reference to a line from the acdc song you shook me all night long. It was released on september 27, 1994, and the title refers to a lyric in acdcs song you shook me all night long. Wood was behind the boards for veruca salts 2014 comeback single, an exclusive 10. This chicagobased indie quartet was one of the first successful grungepop bands of the 1990s postnirvana altrock boom. Introduced by gordons good friend, actress lili taylor, gordon and post quickly. Seether is a single by american alternative rock band veruca salt. American thighs 1994, eight arms to hold you 1997, resolver read more.
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