Shot (album)

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Shot
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Studio album by
The Jesus Lizard
ReleasedApril 16, 1996
Recorded1995
Genre Noise rock
Length43:00
Label Capitol
Producer GGGarth
The Jesus Lizard chronology
Down
(1994)		Shot
(1996)		 The Jesus Lizard
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly B− [3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork Media 6.2/10 [6]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Shot is an album by the band The Jesus Lizard, its first release on Capitol Records. [8] [9] Some copies of the album were accompanied by a documentary titled "Sho(r)t". [10]

Contents

Production

Impressed by his work on the album Houdini by Melvins, the band hired producer GGGarth to record Shot. [11] Of note on the album is the very different production of David Yow's vocals, which are now much clearer and higher in the mix than on previous recordings.

Shot is the first studio album by the band that was not produced by Steve Albini. [12] It has been widely held that Steve Albini refused to work with the band because they had signed to a major label, although Albini himself denied this in comments made to a review of the 2009 reissue of the Touch and Go catalog that appears on the Paste Magazine web site.[ citation needed ]

Critical reception

Shot became the band's only album to chart in the US, as it peaked at No. 28 on Billboard 's Top Heatseekers chart. [13]

Trouser Press wrote that "songs like 'Thumbscrews' and 'Skull of a German' prove Yow hasn’t lost anything in terms of horror-storytelling, but his stab at 'singing' (much in the manner he employed in his Scratch Acid days) is ill-advised." [14] Kerrang! wrote that Shot "features [David Wm.] Sims’ best bass playing," praising "the spiralling flourish at 2:37 on 'Skull Of A German'." [15] Perfect Sound Forever wrote that "even though the band is bathed in 'clean' conventional studio mix, they are still the Jesus Lizard and that means dark, ugly and weird." [16] The Rough Guide to Rock called the album "another wedge of death-metal-grunge that showed little sign of burnout." [17]

Track listing

All songs written by The Jesus Lizard.

  1. "Thumper" - 3:31
  2. "Blue Shot" - 4:13
  3. "Thumbscrews" - 3:10
  4. "Good Riddance" - 3:15
  5. "Mailman" - 3:26
  6. "Skull of A German" - 3:42
  7. "Trephination" - 3:34
  8. "More Beautiful Than Barbie" - 2:50
  9. "Too Bad About The Fire" - 4:00
  10. "Churl" - 2:53
  11. "Now Then" - 2:34
  12. "Inamorata" - 3:05
  13. "Pervertedly Slow" - 2:40
  14. "Shut Up" (Japanese CD only bonus track) - 1:20
  15. "Bad Guy" (Japanese CD only bonus track) - 2:20

Personnel

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  7. ↑ Brackett, Nathan. "The Jesus Lizard". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. November 2004. pg. 430, cited April 25, 2010
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