OMG! I Finally Bought A Copy Of Eight Arms To Hold You By Veruca Salt!

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I love it. I was just waiting for the PERFECT time to buy it. 50 cents for a casette copy at the thrift store sealed the deal. I had always loved "Volcano Girls" and "Shutterbug" (they did these great on SNL one year), but I always too chicken to buy the album. There needs to be a reappraisal of this fine hard pop and rock elpee. and there is lots of cool rockin' on it. and bob rock too! probably about 50/50 love/hate on ILM i'll bet. check out this dorkus malorkus:

"man that shit is horrible. wasn't that from the album 'eight arms to hold you,' too? Omigosh kill yourselves.

-- Roger Fidelity (blindjimdeat...), November 2nd, 2004."

what a nerdball!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

ok, fine, i was waiting for the perfect PRICE, and ten years later, i finally found it.

those dudettes wrote catchy and clever stuff. no lie.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

this album is pretty sweet.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:01 (twenty years ago)

FYI: it sounds great in the car.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

"One Last Time" = best GIRL ROCK POWER BALLAD EVAH. FACT.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

I relistened to this a couple months ago after not hearing it for like 7 years. It became apparent how much better Nina's songs were than Louise's.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:15 (twenty years ago)

It's awesome.

Or-suh-hum.

― davidbowie, Friday, 28 April 2006 02:42 (twenty years ago)

New Nina album in a few months!

YOU MONKEY YOU LEFT ME

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 April 2006 03:14 (twenty years ago)

i love the singles when i was a pre-teen.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Friday, 28 April 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

american thighs is bettah.

― reo, Friday, 28 April 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

WRONG

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

"When I was 25 / I took a dive" is the nadir of human existance. And it's on American Thighs.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

American Thighs is better on some days, Eight Arms on others.

"You monkey, you left me" is one of my favorite lines ever though.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

The big picture of Nina in the liners is pretty classic as I recall. Always spent more time looking at that then listening to the music, which I hated aside from Volcano Girls. Loise Posts sub-Courtney riotgrrl shit was always pretty insufferable to me, and is the reason why i'm not going to be re-evaluating this anytime soon.

― jason. (jason.), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

OMG American Thighs

is one of my favorite albums.

Eight Arms to Hold You

kinda sucks.

i mean i guess going back, i could maybe get into it if i kitschified it a bit. but American Thighs is really, really blissful.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 4 March 2007 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

what the hell kinda thread revival is this!

― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2007 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

i have to say tho, i appreciate your vote of confidence scott, cuz i always like when someone likes something that's let me down

and i'm sure now, this will propel me to listen to Arms again and like, see all the parts i didn't used to like in that different light. still, too forced and heavy for me. reminds me, i need to by American Thighs again.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 4 March 2007 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

live shutterbug rules!!! i swear it gives me chills. i don't even know why! it's a mystery. i just think it's so cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRL6mXHS-30

― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2007 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

live shutterbug at the electric factory in philly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q0N8UeBLoQ

― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2007 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

massive dud, despite what christgau said

― gershy, Sunday, 4 March 2007 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

what the f did christgau say

― Surmounter, Sunday, 4 March 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

btw scott i'll take al ook at that i just can't yet cuz i'm on the slow comp til tomorrow.

um...

yeah. i also need to take a look at some other recommendations tomorrow. and like, call my dentist. sundays are weird.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 4 March 2007 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

omg I used to have this album back when I was, like, 10! and I still have it somewhere! I barely remember anything about it!

i remember there was a song called "awesome" that was awesome, and i remember that one of the lyrics to some song appropriated the beatles' "glass onion", and i remember there was a song called "with david bowie" even though i didn't really even know who david bowie was ("some musician from before my time" was the closest I got). and i remember there was a song called "venus man trap" and i knew even then that that was a terrible title.

I should totally give this a listen shouldn't I? I'm excited!

― aaron d.g., Sunday, 4 March 2007 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

awesome is pretty good. now that i think about it i feel like there are some fun harmonies on this album. i love that they actually used harmonies.

the david bowie song is eh, and i feel the venus man trap song is like the really heavy number but i'm probably totally wrong.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 4 March 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe i was drunk enough to watch, like, an hour of veruca salt live footage. that's drunk! ooooof. there is even new footage! i think it's just louise and all new people. i think i'm having a shameover.

― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

and you thought this was a pointless thread revival =P

― Surmounter, Sunday, 4 March 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

The two non-Nina albums aren't bad! I would never recommend them to anyone that wasn't already down w/ the 1st two, though.

― David R., Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Please note: by "not bad," I mean "fantastic and I say that w/out reservation except I know going OMG over this shit won't fly, so I'm tempering my OMG while out in public."

― David R., Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

"One Last Time" = best GIRL ROCK POWER BALLAD EVAH. FACT.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:35 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Maybe I wouldn't go that far, fact or not, but it does sound pretty good to me right now.

Side note: Nina Gordon's solo albums suck out loud.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 August 2009 07:56 (sixteen years ago)

really like her vocals on the smashing pumpkins (well iha) track "said sadly" but i am a total 'dorkus malorkus'

― winston, Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:27 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Still <3 this album.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 03:02 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

You monkey, you left me.

― how's life, Thursday, 18 December 2014 22:16 (eleven years ago)

where's my lipgloss

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 20 December 2014 13:57 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

You can buy it again now

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― how's life, Friday, 19 January 2018 19:18 (eight years ago)

six years pass...

I might have missed this if Steve Albini hadn't died. I went to his discogs page just to check out the breadth of his work, and the most recent release with a "Recorded By" credit is a limited re-release of the Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt e.p.

https://www.elcaminomedia.com/store/veruca-salt-blow-it-out-your-ass-vinyl

― peace, man, Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:04 (two years ago)

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