Cruel & Delicious

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Cruel & Delicious
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 30, 2002
StudioDonner and Blitzen
Silverlake, California
Genre
Length42:43
Label Rekords Rekords
Producer Mathias Schneeberger & Fatso Jetson
Fatso Jetson chronology
Toasted
(2001)
Cruel & Delicious
(2002)
Fatso Jetson Live (LP)
(2007)
Professional ratings
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Cruel & Delicious is an album from Fatso Jetson. [2] It was released on November 30, 2002, by Rekords Rekords. [3]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Pleasure Bent"3:52
2."Drinkin' Mode"1:31
3."Light Yourself on Fire"4:59
4."Died in California"3:03
5."Heavenly Hearse"4:20
6."Ton o' Luv"2:27
7."Pig Hat Smoking"1:49
8."Superfrown"4:25
9."Iron Chef"4:07
10."Sunshine Enema"2:24
11."Party Pig"2:43
12."Stranger's Blues"3:21
13."Mountains of Debt"3:35

Personnel

Additional musicians

Credits

Recorded & Mixed at Donner & Blitzen, Silver Lake, California

Produced by Mathias Schneeberger & Fatso Jetson

"Ton O Love" words and music by G. V. Casale/Devo

Cover Photography by Tony Tornay

Inside Booklet Photography by Patrick Krausgrill

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References

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  2. "Larger Than Life". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  3. "Fatso Jetson - Cruel & Delicious". mtv.com. Retrieved on February 3, 2014.