Big Top Halloween

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Big Top Halloween
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1988
Genre Alternative rock
Label Ultrasuede
The Afghan Whigs chronology
Big Top Halloween
(1988)
Up in It
(1990)
Professional ratings
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Big Top Halloween is the first album by the band The Afghan Whigs. [3] It was released in 1988 via Ultrasuede. [4] [5]

Contents

Two thousand copies of the record were pressed. [6]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "there's a surprising amount of subtlety — sophistication, even — rustling beneath the boozy, gutter-rat surface of the quartet's self-released debut . . . an altogether terrific debut." [7]

Track listing

All tracks written by Greg Dulli and John Curley.

  1. "Here Comes Jesus"
  2. "In My Town"
  3. "Priscilla's Wedding"
  4. "Push"
  5. "Scream"
  6. "But Listen"
  7. "Big Top Halloween"
  8. "Life in a Day"
  9. "Sammy"
  10. "Doughball"
  11. "Back o' the Line"
  12. "Greek Is Extra"

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References

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