Hallucigenia (album)

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Hallucigenia
Studio album by The Lowest of the Low
Released 1994
Recorded 1993-1994
Genre Indie rock
Label Yes Boy Records/A&M
Producer Don Smith
Professional reviews
The Lowest of the Low chronology
Shakespeare My Butt
(1991)		 Hallucigenia
(1994)		 Nothing Short of a Bullet
(2001)

Hallucigenia is a 1994 album by The Lowest of the Low. It was the band's first and only release on a major record label. The album also reveals the source of the band's name, opening with a clip of former President of the United States George H. W. Bush stating "We do not want to be the lowest of the low. We are not a nation in decline."

More of a hard rock album than its predecessor, 1991's Shakespeare My Butt, the album was poorly received by fans and critics. The band was also riven by significant internal tensions, and broke up barely a few months after Hallucigenia's release. The band subsequently reunited in 2000.

"City Full of Cowards" was released as a CD single, with the non-album B-sides "Bit" and "Crying Like a Postcard". "Motel 30" was released as a CD single, with the non-album B-side "The Unbearable Lightness of Jean". "Gamble" was the album's other main single, with the album track "Night of the Living Assholes" as its B-side.

Art Bergmann appears as a guest musician on "Beer, Graffiti Walls". He is also referenced in the lyrics to "Pistol", along with Joe Strummer, Black Flag and Billy Bragg.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Ron Hawkins, except where noted.

  1. "Pistol"
  2. "That Song About Trees and Kites" - Hawkins/Kathleen Olmstead
  3. "City Full of Cowards"
  4. "Eating the Rich"
  5. "Gamble"
  6. "Dogs of February" - Stephen Stanley
  7. "Black Monday"
  8. "Beer, Graffiti Walls"
  9. "7th Birthday"
  10. "Penedono's Hand" - Stanley
  11. "Life Imitates Art"
  12. "Last Lost Generation"
  13. "Motel 30"
  14. "Night of the Living Assholes"