Missile Me!

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Missile Me!
Guitar Wolf - Missile Me!.jpg
Studio album by
Released Japan, July 1995
US, 19 November 1996
Recorded1994–1995
Genre Garage punk, noise punk
Length28:05
Label Less than TV (Japan)
IDCW-1003
Matador Records (US) [1]
Ole 219-2
Producer Guitar Wolf
Guitar Wolf chronology
Run Wolf Run
(1994)
Missile Me!
(1995)
Planet of the Wolves
(1997)

Missile Me! is an album by the Japanese rock band Guitar Wolf. [2] [3] It was released in Japan in July 1995 and in the United States on 19 November 1996.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly A− [5]

The A.V. Club called the album "28 corrosive minutes of sludgy, no-polish, roughed-up punk rock." [6] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "these lo-fi speed freaks pulverize rockabilly, garage, and hardcore into a fuzzed-out raunch-fest that's as insistent as it is funny." [5]

Track listing

  1. "Missile Me"
  2. "Hurricane Rock"
  3. "Kung Fu Ramone Culmination Tactic"
  4. "Can-Nana Fever"
  5. "Midnight Violence Rock’n Roll"
  6. "Link Wray Man"
  7. "Guitar Star"
  8. "Racing Rock"
  9. "Jet Rock’n Roll"
  10. "Devil Stomp"
  11. "Jet Blues"
  12. "Venus Drive"

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