Don't Blow Your Top (album)

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Don't Blow Your Top
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Studio album by
Released12 February 1988
StudioM.O.B. Studios, Hamburg
Genre Industrial rock
Length32:49
Label Cash Beat
Producer Sascha Konietzko
KMFDM chronology
What Do You Know, Deutschland?
(1986)
Don't Blow Your Top
(1988)
UAIOE
(1989)
Singles from Don't Blow Your Top
  1. "Don't Blow Your Top"
    Released: 1988
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."No Meat—No Man" (Esch, Konietzko, Raymond Watts)3:52
2."Don't Blow Your Top" (Esch, Konietzko, Watts)3:40
3."Disgust (12" Version)" (Esch, Konietzko, Watts)4:28
4."Oh Look"2:40
5."King Kong Dub (Rubber Mix)" (Jr. Blackmale, Esch, Konietzko)2:02
Side B
No.TitleLength
6."Killing"5:20
7."What a Race"3:37
8."No News"4:30
9."Oh Look II"2:38
Total length:32:49

CD release

No.TitleLength
1."No Meat—No Man"3:53
2."Don't Blow Your Top"3:40
3."Killing"5:27
4."Disgust"5:29
5."Oh Look"2:39
6."King Kong Dub (Rubber Mix)"2:04
7."What a Race"3:37
8."No News"4:37
9."Tod Durch Bongo-Bongo"6:36
10."Killing (For Your Sampling Kit)"8:39
11."Oh Shit"4:51
Total length:51:32

Reception

Andy Hinds from Allmusic said that Don't Blow Your Top "sounds a little flimsy when compared to the band's pile-driving later work", and that it sounds "like a combination of early Meat Beat Manifesto, Twitch -era Ministry, and even...the more primitive stuff of Alien Sex Fiend." [1]

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Hinds, Andy. "Don't Blow Your Top - KMFDM". AllMusic . Retrieved 3 November 2011.[ dead link ]
  2. MTV News Staff (11 September 2006). "For The Record". MTV. Viacom. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.