Mush (album)

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Mush
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Studio album by
Leatherface
Released1991
RecordedMay 1991, the Greenhouse (London N1)
Genre
Length45:53
Label Roughneck (original release), Seed (U.S. re-release)
Leatherface chronology
Fill Your Boots
(1990)		Mush
(1991)		 Minx
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Mush is the third full-length album by the English punk band Leatherface. It was originally released only in Britain on Roughneck, a subsidiary of Fire Records, in 1991. It was re-released on Seed Records, an offshoot of Atlantic Records, in 1992, in an unsuccessful attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Nirvana in the United States. [2]

The Guardian called it an album "which has influenced every hardcore, post-hardcore, call it what you want, punk group that exists anywhere across the globe." [3] Kerrang rated it as one of the 50 best albums of 1991. [4]

In 2012, Sarah Anderson of NME named it one of "20 lost albums ripe for rediscovery", [5] and the same magazine named it the 49th best album of 1991 in 2016. [6]

Track listing

All songs written by Frankie Stubbs, except where noted.

  1. "I Want the Moon" (Stubbs, Dickie Hammond) - 2:49
  2. "How Lonely" - 2:39
  3. "I Don't Want to Be the One to Say It" (Stubbs, Hammond) - 2:34
  4. "Pandora's Box" (Stubbs, Hammond) - 3:01
  5. "Not a Day Goes By" - 2:38
  6. "Not Superstitious" - 4:19
  7. "Springtime" (Stubbs, Hammond) - 3:19
  8. "Winning" - 1:59
  9. "In the Real World" (Stubbs, Hammond) - 2:23
  10. "Baked Potato" (Stubbs, Hammond) - 3:17
  11. "Bowl of Flies" - 2:58
  12. "Dead Industrial Atmosphere" - 4:03

Bonus tracks on the CD re-release:

  1. "Trenchfoot" - 3:00
  2. "Scheme of Things" - 3:20
  3. "Message in a Bottle" (Sting) - 3:34 (cover version of original by The Police)

References

  1. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (15 October 2000). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. p. 173. ISBN   9780312245603.
  2. 1 2 3 Ogg, Alex. "Mush - Leatherface". AllMusic . Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Melancholia and raw pain: The sad end of Leatherface". TheGuardian.com . 6 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "The 50 best albums from 1991".
  5. ↑ Anderson, Sarah (7 February 2012). "20 Lost Albums Ripe For Rediscovery". NME . Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "1991". NME. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2017.


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