Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope

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Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 10, 1997
Recorded1997
Genre
Length45:16
Label Rocket
Producer Steven Haigler
Jimmie's Chicken Shack chronology
2 For 1 Special
(1995)
Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
(1997)
Bring Your Own Stereo
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope is an album by the American band Jimmie's Chicken Shack. [2] [3] It was released in 1997. [4] The album sold more than 200,000 copies. [5] The band supported the album by opening for Everclear on a North American tour. [6]

Contents

The title is a word play of "Pushing the envelope", salmonella, and manila envelope.

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that the band "combines art-rock and hard-rock with a muscular rhythm section that adds a surging, funk-flavored bottom in the vein of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Living Colour." [7]

Track listing

All tracks by Jimi Haha, Jim McD, Jim Chaney & Che Lemon

  1. Dropping Anchor - 3:40
  2. Outhouse - 3:20
  3. High - 3:48
  4. Spiderweb - 4:05
  5. Blood - 3:44
  6. This Is Not Hell - 5:07
  7. Milk - 5:21
  8. Hole - 2:21
  9. School Bus - 2:55
  10. Another Day - 3:24
  11. Sitting with the Dog - 4:10
  12. When You Die You're Dead - 3:16

Personnel

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. "Jimmie's Chicken Shack Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  3. Reece, Doug (Jun 28, 1997). "SHACK ATTACK". Billboard. 109 (26): 14.
  4. Parker, Chris (June 18, 2008). "Jimmie's Chicken Shack". INDY Week.
  5. "Jimmie's Chicken Shack Bring The Love To "Stereo"". MTV News.
  6. Roth, Greg (25 Jan 1998). "There's nothing 'Chicken' about Jimmie's 'Shack'". Sunday News. p. H4.
  7. "JIMMIE'S CHICKEN SHACK 'PUSHING THE SALMANILLA ENVELOPE'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 January 2022.