Name: Head [Remastered] [Deluxe Edition] [Bonus Tracks] [Digipak]
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Head [Remastered] [Deluxe Edition] [Bonus Tracks] [Digipak]

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Album: Head [Remastered] [Deluxe Edition] [Bonus Tracks] [Digipak]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	One Evening	More Info...
2)	S.D.B.J.	More Info...
3)	My Own Urine	More Info...
4)	If You Had Lips	More Info...
5)	7 Vs. 8	More Info...
6)	Pastoral	More Info...
7)	Waxeater	More Info...
8)	Good Thing	More Info...
9)	Tight N Shiny	More Info...
10)	Killer McHann	More Info...
11)	(intentionally blank track)	More Info...
12)	Blockbuster (From Pure)	More Info...
13)	Bloody Mary (From Pure)	More Info...
14)	Rabid Pigs (From Pure)	More Info...
15)	Starlet (From Pure)	More Info...
16)	Happy Bunny Goes Fluff-Fluff Along (From Pure)	More Info...
17)	Chrome (Bonus Track)	More Info...
18)	Killer McHann - Live (Bonus Track)	More Info...
19)	Bloody Mary - Live (Bonus Track)	More Info...

Album: Head [Remastered] [Deluxe Edition] [Bonus Tracks] [Digipak]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	One Evening	More Info...
2)	S.D.B.J.	More Info...
3)	My Own Urine	More Info...
4)	If You Had Lips	More Info...
5)	7 Vs. 8	More Info...
6)	Pastoral	More Info...
7)	Waxeater	More Info...
8)	Good Thing	More Info...
9)	Tight N Shiny	More Info...
10)	Killer McHann	More Info...
11)	(intentionally blank track)	More Info...
12)	Blockbuster (From Pure)	More Info...
13)	Bloody Mary (From Pure)	More Info...
14)	Rabid Pigs (From Pure)	More Info...
15)	Starlet (From Pure)	More Info...
16)	Happy Bunny Goes Fluff-Fluff Along (From Pure)	More Info...
17)	Chrome (Bonus Track)	More Info...
18)	Killer McHann - Live (Bonus Track)	More Info...
19)	Bloody Mary - Live (Bonus Track)	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel: David Yow (vocals); Duane Denison (guitar); Mac McNeilly (drums).
Audio Remasterers: Steve Albini ; Bob Weston .
Liner Note Authors: David Yow; Duane Denison; Henry Rollins; Pat Blashill; Mac McNeilly; Page Hamilton; Joe Lally.
Recording information: 12/1989-11/1990.
Photographers: Manfred Rahs; Ken Salerno; James Rodriguez; Debbie Pastor; Doug Coombe.
With McNeilly in to provide a little more human swing to the proceedings -- appropriate given Denison's own jazz-madness tendencies -- the Jesus Lizard fully launched themselves on an unsuspecting world with Head. The brutal, bass-heavy slam of the music, testament to the uncredited engineering/producing abilities of Steve Albini, gives the whole record a punch that most indie rock didn't have at the time, looking ahead to where similarly minded groups like Helmet (also produced by Albini) would end up soon enough. The McNeilly/Sims rhythm dictates the songs, letting Denison and Yow both find their own way over the chugging brusqueness as they see fit. Yow for the most part sounds like he's singing through a wall or through a huge amount of cotton gauze, making his lyrical tales of violence, twisted living, and the like one for lyric-sheet readers to work out, but the amped-up roars and leers evident in his vocals do a fine job on their own. Then again, the song titles aren't exactly ones to suggest flowers and roses, as "My Own Urine," "Waxeater," and the perfectly creepy "If You Had Lips" make rather clear. Yow's Birthday Party worship is now one more readily shared by the band with McNeilly's presence, the fusion of dark blues and proto-punk rampage -- "My Own Urine," in fact, being a good example of just that -- let to run loose. The stentorian stomp of "7 vs. 8" and the stabbing attack of "Good Thing" in particular might as well be early Cave on the vocals, Yow in mad-preacher mode in excelsis. There's a definite weird playful touch all the band's own, though, whether it's in the sassy strut that starts "If You Had Lips" or even, on the start of "Pastoral," a bit of chiming guitar prettiness. ~ Ned Raggett