Widowspeak (Lydia Lunch album)

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Widowspeak
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Compilation album by
Released1998
Recorded1979 (1979)–1998 (1998)
Genre Post-punk
Length89:00
Label New Millennium Communications (NMC)
Lydia Lunch chronology
Matrikamantra
(1997)
Widowspeak
(1998)
Smoke in the Shadows
(2004)
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Widowspeak is a compilation album by the singer Lydia Lunch, released in 1998 through New Millennium Communications (NMC).

Contents

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Original releaseLength
1."Death Valley '69" (with Sonic Youth) Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore Bad Moon Rising 5:10
2."Endless Fall" (with Rowland S. Howard) Rowland S. Howard, Lydia Lunch Shotgun Wedding 3:45
3."Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" Lennon–McCartney Don't Fear the Reaper 3:32
4."Some Velvet Morning" (with Rowland S. Howard) Lee Hazlewood Some Velvet Morning4:26
5."Four Cornered Room"Lydia Lunchpreviously unreleased3:22
6."Suicide Ocean" (with Karl Blake)Lydia LunchFear Engine II5:13
7."No Excuse" (with Lee Ranaldo)Lydia Lunchpreviously unreleased3:01
8."A Short History of Decay, Pts. 1 & 2" (with J.F. Coleman & Joseph Budenholzer)Joseph Budenholzer, Jim Coleman, Lydia Lunchpreviously unreleased2:28
9."Escape" (with Joseph Budenholzer)Joseph Budenholzer, Lydia Lunch Matrikamantra 1:52
10."A Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, Connecticut" Lucy Hamilton, Lydia Lunch The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton 3:29
11."The Need to Feed" (with Joseph Budenholzer)Joseph Budenholzer, Lydia LunchMatrikamantra3:50
12."Der Karibische Western" (with Die Haut) Christoph Dreher, Martin Peter Hysterie 5:30
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Original releaseLength
1."Twisted" (with Clint Ruin)Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin 7" single on Insipid4:22
2."Past Glas" (with Clint Ruin)Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin7" single on Insipid4:32
3."Done Dun" (with Rowland S. Howard)Lydia Lunch, Murray Mitchell Honeymoon in Red 4:28
4."Lock Your Door" (with 13.13)Lydia Lunch 13.13 5:26
5."Diddy Wah Diddy" (with 8 Eyed Spy) Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon Hysterie 2:19
6."Run Through the Jungle" (with 8 Eyed Spy) John Fogerty Hysterie 5:31
7."Orphans" (with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks)Lydia Lunch Hysterie 2:26
8."Son of Stink" (with Clint Ruin)Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin Stinkfist 3:46
9."Still Burning" (with Thurston Moore) Rowland S. Howard In Limbo 6:03
10."Tornado Warnings" (with Beirut Slump)Lydia Lunch Hysterie 1:18
11."Lady Scarface"Lydia Lunch Queen of Siam 3:11

References

  1. Huey, Steve. "Widowspeak". Allmusic. Retrieved February 23, 2013.