Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt

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Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
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EP by
ReleasedApril 16, 1996
Recorded1996 (1996)
Genre Alternative rock
Length19:08
Label DGC/Minty Fresh
Producer Steve Albini
Veruca Salt chronology
American Thighs
(1994)
Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
(1996)
Eight Arms to Hold You
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Entertainment Weekly B [4]
MusicHound Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt is an EP by Veruca Salt released in 1996. It followed the band's hit album American Thighs (1994). The EP contains four songs, two by Nina Gordon and two by Louise Post.

Contents

The album art shows the band dressed in toilet paper. In the liner notes, bassist Steve Lack is credited under his actual name, Stephen J. Lackiewicz.

Track listing

  1. "Shimmer Like a Girl" (Nina Gordon) – 4:03
  2. "I'm Taking Europe with Me" (Louise Post) – 3:45
  3. "New York Mining Disaster 1996" (Gordon) – 4:56
  4. "Disinherit" (Post) – 6:25

Personnel

"Shimmer Like a Girl" is often used as the main theme song for Shimmer Women Athletes, a Chicago-based all-female wrestling promotion.

"I'm Taking Europe with Me" was featured in the closing credits for Matthew Bright's motion picture Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby .

Charts

Chart (1996)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [6] 194

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