Quality Time (album)

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Quality Time
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1995
Recordedat Electrical Audio, Chicago USA
Genre Power electronics, noise, avant-garde, dark ambient
Length33:22
Label Susan Lawly
Producer Whitehouse, Steve Albini
Whitehouse chronology
Halogen
(1994)
Quality Time
(1995)
Mummy and Daddy
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Brainwashedpositive [2]

Quality Time is the fourteenth studio album by power electronics band Whitehouse, released in 1995 through their Susan Lawly label. The cover art was illustrated by Trevor Brown, who made artwork for the band's previous album, Halogen , and their 1991 album, Twice Is Not Enough . The album was reissued on vinyl format in 2009 through Very Friendly.

Contents

The track "Baby" is composed solely of samples of baby noises. When Quality Time was uploaded to the music sharing website MP3.com, the track stirred controversy within the website's community, with users calling the band "extremely pretentious" and the track "one of the worst forms of electronic creations [they'd] ever heard". [3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Told"William Bennett, Peter Sotos 4:46
2."Quality Time"Bennett, Sotos10:10
3."Baby"Bennett2:58
4."Execution" Philip Best 5:19
5."Just Like A Cunt (PB Vocal Version)"Bennett6:05
6."Once And For All"Bennett3:40

Personnel

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References

  1. Ravelin, Antti. "Allmusic ((( Quality Time Review )))". Allmusic . Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  2. Whitney, Jon. "Whitehouse, Quality Time review". Brainwashed. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  3. "The 'Baby' Controversy". Susan Lawly. Retrieved March 25, 2015.