Easy Listening (Pigface album)

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Easy Listening... For Difficult F***heads
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 17, 2003 (2003-01-17)
Genre Industrial
Label Underground, Inc.
Invisible Records [1]
Producer Martin Atkins [2]
Pigface chronology
The Best of Pigface: Preaching to the Perverted
(2001)
Easy Listening... For Difficult F***heads
(2003)
Dubhead
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Easy Listening... For Difficult F***heads is an album by Pigface, released in 2003. [4] [5] The album includes contributions from Chris Vrenna, Fallon Bowman, Keith Levene, Edsel Dope, Jared Louche, Jason Miller, Penn Jillette, En Esch, Chris Connelly, and Steven Seibold.

Contents

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that the album "emphasizes hammering disco-metal but also encompasses Bowie-ish art-croon ('Miss Sway Action') and a sort of raga-rock ('Closer to Heaven')." [2] The Cleveland Scene called the album "coherent and engaging: a good starting point for the curious and an improvement for the longtime fan." [6] The Pitch wrote that it combines "the seemingly disparate worlds of atmospheric head music and straight-ahead hardcore in a way that satisfies both sides of the brain." [7] The Chicago Tribune called Easy Listening "a kaleidoscopic blitz of psychedelia, decadent grooves and corrosive riffing." [8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Mind Your Own Business" (Delta 5 cover)3:25
2."Insect / Suspect"3:53
3."Sweetmeat"3:10
4."Bitch (Mattress Mix)" (Dope cover)3:10
5."Everything"3:29
6."Closer to Heaven"5:12
7."Blow You Away (G.T.F.A.F.M.)"3:28
8."Du Liebst Mich Nicht, Ich Lieb' Dich Nicht"4:20
9."King of Negativity"3:36
10."Miss Sway Action"4:11
11."Binary Stream"3:18
12."The Loneliest Sound I've Ever Heard"3:19
13."The Horse You Rode in On"2:42

Personnel

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