You Can't Pray a Lie

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You Can't Pray a Lie
Laughing Hyenas You Cant Pray a Lie.jpg
Studio album by
Laughing Hyenas
ReleasedMarch 1989 (1989-03)
RecordedOctober 1988 (1988-10)
StudioSmart Studios, Madison, WI [1]
Genre Hardcore punk, post-hardcore, punk blues
Length31:13
Label Touch and Go [2]
Producer Laughing Hyenas, Butch Vig
Laughing Hyenas chronology
Come Down to the Merry Go Round
(1987)		You Can't Pray a Lie
(1989)		 Life of Crime
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

You Can't Pray a Lie is the debut studio album of American garage rock band Laughing Hyenas. [5] It was released in 1989 by Touch and Go Records. [6] It was reissued in 1992 accompanied with Life of Crime.

Contents

Critical reception

Trouser Press praised Larissa Strickland's guitar playing. [6] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "a perfect coalescing of the violence of punk and the guitar stomp of the coming grunge sound." [4] Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996, wrote that "many albums throughout rock-and-roll's history could carry the additional signifier 'hard-living set to music,' but few are as convincing as the albums made by Laughing Hyenas." [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Laughing Hyenas.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Love's My Only Crime"3:20
2."Seven Come Eleven"2:18
3."Black Eyed Susan"2:40
4."Lullaby and Goodnight"4:43
Side two
No.TitleLength
5."Sister"4:20
6."Desolate Son"4:41
7."Dedications to the One I Love"4:42
8."New Gospel"4:25

Personnel

Adapted from the You Can't Pray a Lie liner notes. [8]

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States 1989 Touch and Go LP TG38

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References

  1. ↑ Coombe, Doug. "An oral history of the Laughing Hyenas, one of the great unsung Detroit rock bands". Detroit Metro Times.
  2. ↑ "You Can't Pray a Lie". Touch and Go. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  3. ↑ Carlson, Matt. "You Can't Pray a Lie". Allmusic. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
  4. 1 2 MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. pp. 660–661.
  5. ↑ "Laughing Hyenas | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. 1 2 Christe, Ian; Robbins, Ira (2007). "Laughing Hyenas". Trouser Press . Retrieved July 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN   9780760346488 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ You Can't Pray a Lie (sleeve). Laughing Hyenas. Chicago, Illinois: Touch and Go Records. 1989.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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