Holy Roller (album)

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Holy Roller
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ReleasedApril 20, 1999
StudioDallas Sound Labs, Dallas, Texas
Genre Psychobilly
Length70:58
Label Sub Pop
Producer Gibby Haynes, Al Jourgensen, Thom Panunzio, Ed Stasium, Jim Heath
The Reverend Horton Heat chronology
Space Heater
(1998)
Holy Roller
(1999)
Spend a Night in the Box
(2000)
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Holy Roller is a retrospective compilation by The Reverend Horton Heat that was released by Sub Pop in April 1999, shortly after the band left Interscope Records amidst the label mergers of the late 1990s.

Track listing

All songs written by Jim Heath except as noted.

  1. "Big Sky" – 3:07
  2. "Baddest of the Bad" – 2:27
  3. "Wiggle Stick" – 3:00
  4. "Big Red Rocket of Love" – 3:04
  5. "Bales of Cocaine" – 2:11
  6. "Bath-Water Blues" – 2:06
  7. "Lie Detector" – 3:25
  8. "400 Bucks" – 3:09
  9. "Marijuana" (Heath/Wallace) – 4:49
  10. "It's Martini Time" – 3:15
  11. "Baby I'm Drunk" – 3:11
  12. "Where in the Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush?" – 3:35
  13. "Bad Reputation" (Heath/Wallace) – 2:24
  14. "One Time for Me" – 3:29
  15. "Now, Right Now" – 2:39
  16. "Slow" – 4:23
  17. "Love Whip" – 3:43
  18. "Jimbo Song" (Heath/Wallace) – 2:21
  19. "Big Little Baby" – 2:31
  20. "Cowboy Love" – 2:41
  21. "In Your Wildest Dreams" (Heath/Wallace) – 2:59
  22. "Eat Steak" – 2:33
  23. "Folsom Prison Blues" (Cash) – 2:42
  24. "The Entertainer" (Joplin) – 1:14

Tracks 6 and 23 were previously unreleased.

Personnel

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