From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nail (album)
Nail (album)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Satan Stole My Teddybear (favorable)[2]
CMJ (ambiguous)[3]
Nail bum’s content incorporates a variety of musical genres
and the lyrics are often esoteric.[5] For example, the tem-
po and instrumentation in "Descent Into The Inferno" is
infrequent: the song’s first half is sparse and percussive;
in the latter stages the song gathers momentum and fea-
tures synthesisers. "The Overture From Pigdom Come",
an ironic composition resembling a classical piece of mu-
sic is juxtaposed with perhaps the most brutal track on
the album, "Private War", a track that features one
minute of various grinding noises.
There are various obscure references within the
songs, some more lucid than others. "The Throne Of
Agony" goes off on a tangent and features the soundtrack
to the TV series Mission: Impossible. The lyrics, "Alas,
Studio album by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel poor Yorick, I knew me well" from the same song are a
paraphrase of a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Ham-
Released October 1985
let: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio..."). The line,
Recorded Livingston, Paradise, and Wave Studios, "Turn on, tune in, drop out", in "DI-1-9026" is a reference
London (1985) to a Timothy Leary phrase. Jack and the Beanstalk is also
Genre Industrial referenced, with a variation of the chant "Fee, fie, foe,
fum!" appearing in the final track.
Length 40:04
Label Self Immolation/Some Bizzare
Track listing
Producer J. G. Thirlwell and Warne Livesey
All songs by J. G. Thirlwell (as Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel).
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel chronology 1. "Theme from Pigdom Come" – 1:52
2. "The Throne of Agony" – 5:18
The Foetus Of Excellence Nail Bedrock 3. "!" – 0:04
(1985) (1985) (1987)
4. "Pigswill!" – 6:13
5. "Descent into the Inferno" – 6:17
Nail is a Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel album released by 6. "Enter the Exterminator" – 4:43
Self Immolation/Some Bizzare in 1985. It was initially re- 7. "DI-1-9026" – 4:40
leased in the US by Homestead Records in 1985 and later 8. "The Overture from Pigdom Come" – 3:01
by Thirsty Ear in 1995. In 2007, the album was re-released 9. "Private War" – 1:06
by Some Bizzare records in a digipack format with remas- 10. "Anything (Viva!)" – 6:50
tered audio and re-worked artwork.[4] Some CD pressings place "The Throne of Agony" and "!"
Nail is Self Immolation #WOMB FIP 4. together on one track.
Description
Nail was Thirlwell’s fourth album and second under the
pseudonym of Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel. The al-
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nail (album)
Personnel and Production [2]
[3]
Satan Stole My Teddybear review
CMJ review
• J. G. Thirlwell (as Clint Ruin / Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel) [4] Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - _Nail
- Performance, production, arrangements [5] allmusic ((( Nail > Overview )))
• Warne Livesy - Production, engineering
External links
References • Nail at foetus.org
[1] Allmusic review
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