Skew Siskin (album)

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Skew Siskin
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Studio album by Skew Siskin
Released 1992
Studio Morongo Studio, Berlin, Germany
Genre Hard rock
Length58:00
Label Giant
Producer Jim Voxx
Skew Siskin chronology
Skew Siskin
(1992)
Electric Chair Music
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 6/10 [1]
Rock Hard 9.0/10 [2]

Skew Siskin is the debut studio album by the German hard rock band Skew Siskin, released in 1992.

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with keyboards.

Skew Siskin are a German hard rock band based in Berlin. The formed in 1990 when guitarist Jim Voxx met up with singer Nina C. Alice. The band's original line up was completed by the addition of drummer Nik Terry and bass guitarist Jogi Rautenberg. The band's name translated into English means "Crazy Bird"; Nina C. Alice chose the name as due to spending time living in Britain knew that "bird" there is often colloquially used to refer to women.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."If the Walls Could Talk" Ric Browde China, Jim Voxx, Jogy Rautenberg, Nik Terry, Nina C. Alice4:35
2."Out of Control"ChinaVoxx3:01
3."I Wanna Know"AliceVoxx, Alice5:02
4."Livin' on the Redline"China, BrowdeVoxx, Rautenberg, Terry, Alice3:34
5."In Another World"AliceVoxx, Rautenberg, Terry, Alice12:27
6."I Gotta Go Away"China, AliceVoxx, Alice4:04
7."When the Sun Goes Down"AliceVoxx, Alice5:16
8."Sniffin' the Dirt"AliceVoxx, Alice3:55
9."Thank You for the Time"China, AliceVoxx, Rautenberg, Alice5:14
10."All Day and All of the Night" (The Kinks cover) Ray Davies Davies2:35
11."Cheap Trick" (CD and cassette edition bonus track)AliceVoxx, Rautenberg, Alice4:53
12."Shake Down and Roll" (CD and cassette edition bonus track)China, AliceVoxx, Alice3:24

Personnel

Band members

Additional musicians

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Production

Hugh Syme is a Canadian Juno Award-winning graphic artist and member of the Premier Artists Collection (PAC) who is best known for his artwork and cover concepts for rock and metal bands. He is also a musician and has appeared on some Rush songs as a keyboard player. Syme is notably responsible for all of Rush's album cover art since 1975's Caress of Steel as well as creating Rush's famous Starman logo. In 1983 he told Jeffrey Morgan that he never imagined the band would use it as their main logo. Syme also plays piano on the album Thrilling Women, which Morgan recorded with Dean Motter.

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References

  1. Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 401. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  2. Klenn, Oliver (1992). "Review Album : Skew Siskin - Skew Siskin". Rock Hard (in German). No. 64. Retrieved 2 June 2018.