Pure Electric Honey

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Pure Electric Honey
Ant Bee - Pure Electric Honey.jpg
Studio album by
Released1990
Recorded1989
Genre Psychedelic rock, psychedelic pop, musique concrète
Length36:44
Label VOXX
Producer Billy James, Scott Kolden
Ant-Bee chronology
Pure Electric Honey
(1990)
With My Favorite "Vegetables" & Other Bizarre Muzik
(1994)

Pure Electric Honey is the debut studio album by Ant-Bee, released in 1990 by VOXX Records. [1]

Contents

Release

Originally, the album was made available only on vinyl. In 2005, it was remastered and released on CD for the first time, accompanied by the 1988 Through the Window Pain demo. Pure Electric Honey, along with Ant-Bee's other works, is currently issued under and can be purchased through Barking Moondog Records' online store. [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ant-Bee

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Intro"0:11
2."Eating Chocolate Cake (In the Bath)"2:37
3."My Cat"4:53
4."Black & White Cat, Black & White Cake"3:49
5."Silly Fat Fingers"2:58
6."The Wrong at Once (Has Gone)"3:52
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Say Ahhh!"0:55
2."The Green Gin"4:34
3."Evolution #7" (Parts I-IV)11:45
4."Outro"1:06
CD bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Pre-Cake"1:18
12."Eating Chocolate Cake in the Bath"3:13
13."Silent Mantroid Volume 1"3:32
14."Silent Mantroid Volume 2"2:11
15."Post-Cake"0:18

Personnel

Adapted from Pure Electric Honey liner notes. [3]

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1990VOXX LP VXS 200.056
2005Barking Moondog CD

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References

  1. "Ant-Bee: Pure Electric Honey > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  2. "Bizarre News". Ant-Bee News, cited March 25, 2011
  3. Pure Electric Honey (sleeve). Ant-Bee. Burbank, California: VOXX Records. 1990.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)