Heartworm (album)

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Heartworm
Heartworm front cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1 November 1995
RecordedSeptember – November 1994
Studio Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Length44:28
Label Columbia
Whipping Boy chronology
Submarine
(1992)
Heartworm
(1995)
Whipping Boy
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [2]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Heartworm is an album by the Irish rock band Whipping Boy, released on 1 November 1995 on Columbia Records. It was recorded between September and November 1994 in Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin.

Contents

Heartworm was voted the seventh best Irish album of all time in a 2005 poll by the Irish magazine Hot Press . [4] On 17 March 2013, it topped Phantom FM's poll of the top 50 Irish albums of all time.

Release

The album was reissued on 3 September 2021 by Pete Paphides' Needle Mythology label [5] [6] [7] on double LP and double CD, both formats containing an extra 10 B-sides and demos. [8] Pre-orders announced in July included an art print signed by Page, McDonnell and Hassett. The double LP sold out almost immediately during the pre-order, prompting a second pressing. The first pressing made Heartworm chart for the first time in the Official Irish Albums Chart Top 50 (at number 8 on week ending 16 September 2021), [9] with the album re-entering at number 4 in January 2022. [10]

Track listing

  1. "Twinkle"
  2. "When We Were Young"
  3. "Tripped"
  4. "The Honeymoon Is Over"
  5. "We Don't Need Nobody Else"
  6. "Blinded"
  7. "Personality"
  8. "Users"
  9. "Fiction"
  10. "Morning Rise"
  11. "A Natural" (hidden track)
2021 Reissue CD2: B-Sides And Demos
No.TitleLength
1."When We Were Young (Philo Version)"2:54
2."I Am God"3:20
3."Magnolia"4:14
4."Caroline Says II"3:35
5."Tripped (Live)"3:50
6."We Don't Need Nobody Else (Acoustic Version)"3:59
7."Disappointed"4:17
8."Twinkle (Acoustic Version)"4:18
9."As The Day Goes"4:36
10."A Natural"3:47

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Heartworm
Chart (2022)Peak
position
Irish Albums (OCC) [11] 4

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