The Greatest Gift (Scratch Acid album)

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The Greatest Gift
ScratchAcidGreatestGift.jpg
Compilation album by
Released1991
RecordedDecember 1982 (1982-12)–October 1986 (1986-10)
Genre Noise rock
Length75:09
Label Touch and Go
Producer Kerry Crafton, Fred Remmert, T Zero
Scratch Acid chronology
Berserker
(1986)
The Greatest Gift
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Greatest Gift is a posthumously-released compilation album by Scratch Acid, containing everything they had recorded.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Cannibal" – 2:24
  2. "Greatest Gift" – 2:11
  3. "Monsters" – 1:19
  4. "Owner's Lament" – 4:39
  5. "She Said" – 2:27
  6. "Mess" – 2:22
  7. "El Espectro" – 3:39
  8. "Lay Screaming" – 2:47
  9. "Crazy Dan" – 4:13
  10. "Eyeball" – 2:06
  11. "Big Bone Lick" – 3:48
  12. "Unlike a Baptist" – 2:31
  13. "Damned for All Time" – 2:05
  14. "Ain't That Love" – 2:23
  15. (untitled) – 0:29
  16. "Holes" – 2:00
  17. "Albino Slug" – 3:26
  18. "Spit a Kiss" – 2:02
  19. "Amicus" – 3:15
  20. "Cheese Plug" – 2:45
  21. (untitled) – 2:20
  22. "Mary Had a Little Drug Problem" – 2:16
  23. "For Crying out Loud" – 3:06
  24. "Moron's Moron" – 3:13
  25. "Skin Drips" – 2:42
  26. "This Is Bliss" – 2:16
  27. "Flying Houses" – 3:08
  28. "The Scale Song" – 3:04

Personnel

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References

  1. Lerner, Will. "The Greatest Gift". Allmusic. Retrieved February 23, 2013.