A Song to Ruin

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A Song to Ruin
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Studio album by
Released1 September 2003
RecordedMighty Atom Studios, Swansea, Wales
Genre Punk, post-hardcore
Length44:37
Label Xtra Mile
Integrity [1]
Producer Joe Gibb and Million Dead
Million Dead chronology
A Song to Ruin
(2003)
Harmony No Harmony
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Rock Sound 10/10 [2]
Sputnikmusic4/5 [3]

A Song to Ruin is Million Dead's debut full-length album. [4] It was released in 2003 through Xtra Mile Recordings/Integrity Records.

Contents

Critical reception

BBC Music called the album "essential listening for anyone with an ear for uncompromising, politicised rock sounds." [5] musicOMH called it "heady punk rock, some of it fairly standard, much of it anything but; lyrics that could start a plethora of post-pub debates; and, all in all, a fine debut album." [6]

Track listing

  1. "Pornography for Cowards" – 2:01
  2. "Breaking the Back" – 3:12
  3. "I Am the Party" – 2:56
  4. "Charlie + the Propaganda Myth Machine" – 3:25
  5. "A Song to Ruin" – 5:47
  6. "Smiling at Strangers on Trains" – 2:55
  7. "MacGyver" – 3:28
  8. "Relentless” – 4:03
  9. "The Kids Are Going to Love It" – 2:47
  10. "The Rise and Fall" – 14:03
  11. “Gnostic Front” – 3:55 (Japanese bonus track)
  12. “Reformulating the Challenge to Archism” – 3:56 (Japanese bonus track)

Deluxe edition track listing

  1. "Gnostic Front" – 3:55
  2. "I Gave My Eyes To Stevie Wonder" – 3:10
  3. "Medicine" – 4:10
  4. "Tonight Matthew" – 3:05
  5. "Asthma" – 4:47

Personnel

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