Rock Starve

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Rock Starve
Cover-RockStarve.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember, 1987
Genre Hard Rock, Punk
Length40:19
Label Restless Records
Producer Steve Barry [1]
Steve Buzz Magner
The Bags chronology
Rock Starve
(1987)
Swamp Oaf
(1989)

Rock Starve is The Bags' debut album, released in 1987 by Restless Records. [2] [3]

Contents

Though preceded by early releases of "Try It" and "Egg" — songs found on the multiple-artist compilation, Crawling from Within — the album features re-recorded versions.

Critical reception

Billboard recommended the album, writing that the band "mashes up a more than acceptable brand of home-brewed thrash on its palpitating debut disk." [1] Trouser Press wrote that "the Bags demonstrate a singular ability to analyze and describe relationships and emotions with searing but subtle simplicity ... The album doesn’t contain a bad tune." [4]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Spread it Around"3:07
2."Pioneer"2:53
3."Warm Words"2:45
4."What Do You Want?"2:14
5."She's Beautiful"1:46
6."Out of My Mind"2:32
7."Try It"1:56
8."Tailbone"2:01
9."Joy Ride"2:53
10."Flying Low"3:24
11."Trapped"1:28
12."Love Sick Diane"3:02
13."Nothing to Say to You"2:31
14."Lick My Wounds"2:00
15."Egg"3:15
16."Big Wig"2:32

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References

  1. 1 2 Inc, Nielsen Business Media (December 26, 1987). "Album Reviews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. via Google Books.
  2. Turoque, Bjorn; Crane, Dan (August 1, 2006). "To Air is Human: One Man's Quest to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist". Penguin via Google Books.
  3. "Boston-Based Bags To Rock Norman". Oklahoman.com. March 18, 1988.
  4. "Bags". Trouser Press. Retrieved 15 July 2020.