Cocaine Rodeo

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Cocaine Rodeo
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 18, 2000
August 11, 2009 (reissue)
July 24, 2020 (20th anniversary repress)
Recorded1997
StudioMonkey Studios, Palm Desert, California
Genre Stoner rock, alternative rock
Length36:16
Label Southern Lord
Impedance Records (2009 reissue)
Heavy Psych Sounds Records (2020 repress)
Producer Nick Oliveri
Mondo Generator chronology
Cocaine Rodeo
(2000)
A Drug Problem That Never Existed
(2003)
Alternative cover
Cocainerodeoreissue.jpg
Impedance reissue
No.TitleLength
1."13th Floor"3:15
2."Shawnette"3:18
3."Uncle Tommy"1:28
4."Miss Mary Gets a Boob Job"4:14
5."Unless I Can Kill"1:55
6."PigMan"3:01
7."Simple Exploding Man" (extended version)11:31
8."I Want You to Die"1:20
9."Dead Insects"4:05
10."Cocaine Rodeo"2:09
Total length:36:16
US edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
11."Another Tension Head"2:10
Total length:38:26
European edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
12."Simple Exploding Man (Texas)"4:31
Total length:40:47
Reissue bonus disk – Alive & Wired
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Six Shooter" (live)1:27
2."Here We Come" (live) 1:52
3."F.Y. I'm Free" (live) 2:17
4."Jr. High Love" (live) 2:08
5."Shawnette" (live) 3:26
6."So High" (live) 2:37
7."Jealous Again" (live) 1:47
8."Unless I Can Kill" (live) 1:58
9."Allen's Wrench" (live) 3:02
10."Open Up and Bleed for Me" (live) 3:25
11."Simple Exploding Man" (live) 13:26
12."Autopilot" (live)
  • Homme
  • Oliveri
3:57
Total length:41:22

Personnel

Studio personnel

Alive & Wired personnel

Additional personnel

Notes

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