Put Your Hands Down

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Put Your Hands Down
Penal Colony - Put Your Hands Down.jpg
Studio album by
Penal Colony
ReleasedFebruary 1994 (1994-02) [1] [2]
Genre Electro-industrial
Length46:46
Label Cleopatra
Producer
Penal Colony chronology
Put Your Hands Down
(1994)		 5 Man Job
(1995)

Put Your Hands Down is the debut studio album of Penal Colony, released in February 1994 by Cleopatra Records. [3] [4]

Contents

Reception

Factsheet Five compared the music of Put Your Hands Down favorably to Hate Dept. and described Penal Colony as being "masters of the genre." [5] Industrialnation said "Penal Colony have already left several veteran bands in the dust" and "this music is for thos who like their music angst-ridden and dark, with a live feel." [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jason Hubbard, Dee Madden, Andy Shaw and Chris Shinkus, except "Warsaw" by Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner

No.TitleLength
1."Halidified (Burnt RAM)"4:15
2."Product"3:29
3."Blue 9"3:15
4."Combine"4:20
5."Drawn and Quartered"4:05
6."Reconciled"4:29
7."Organic"4:02
8."Paste"3:27
9."Gout"2:48
10."Scoma"3:34
11."Insemin"3:09
12."Among the Living"3:07
13."Warsaw" (Joy Division cover)2:46

Personnel

Adapted from the Put Your Hands Down liner notes. [7]

Penal Colony

Additional musicians

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1994 Cleopatra CD, CS CLEO 1094

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References

  1. ↑ Barnhart, Becky (1996). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum . Stereophile, Incorporated. Winter 1996–1997: 139. ISBN   9781575980386 . Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ Barnhart, Becky (2000). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum . Stereophile, Incorporated. 9 (2): 202. ISBN   9781575980782 . Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Penal Colony: Put Your Hands Down > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  4. ↑ Thompson, David (November 1, 2000). Alternative Rock: Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion. Miller Freeman, Inc. p. 751. ISBN   9780879306076 . Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  5. ↑ Gunderloy, Mike (1994). "Penal Colony: Put Your Hands Down". Factsheet Five . Mike Gunderloy (54): 17. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  6. ↑ The Dark Man (1995). "Sonic Reviews: Penal Colony – Put Your Hands Down". Industrialnation (10): 71. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  7. ↑ Put Your Hands Down (booklet). Penal Colony. Marina Del Rey, California: Cleopatra Records. 1994.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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