Nail (album)
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| Studio album by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel | |||||
| Released | 1985 | ||||
| Recorded | Livingston, Paradise, and Wave Studios, London (1985) | ||||
| Genre | Industrial | ||||
| Length | 40:04 | ||||
| Label | Self Immolation/Some Bizzare | ||||
| Producer | J. G. Thirlwell and Warne Livesey | ||||
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Nail is a Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel album released by Self Immolation/Some Bizzare in 1985. In 1995, Nail was given a US release by Thirsty Ear. In 2007, the album was re-released by Some Bizzare records in a digipack format with remastered audio and re-worked artwork.[1]
Nail is Self Immolation #WOMB FIP 4.
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[edit] Description
Nail was Thirlwell's fourth album and second under the the pseudonym of Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel. The album's content incorporates a variety of musical genres and the lyrics are often esoteric.[2] For example, the tempo and instrumentation in "Descent Into The Inferno" is infrequent: the song's first half is sparse and percussive; in the latter stages the song gathers momentum and features synthesisers. "The Overture From Pigdom Come", an ironic composition resembling a classical piece of music is juxtaposed with perhaps the most brutal track on the album, "Private War", a track that features one minute of various grinding noises.
There are various obscure references within the songs, some more lucid than others. "The Throne Of Agony" goes off on a tangent and features the soundtrack to the TV series Mission: Impossible. The lyrics, "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew me well" from the same song are a paraphrase of a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet (Hamlet: "Alas, poor Yorick. The knew him, Horatio"). The line, "Turn on, tune in, drop out", in "DI-1-9026" is a reference to a Timothy Leary phrase. Jack and the Beanstalk is also referenced, with a variation of the chant "Fee, fie, foe, fum!" appearing in the final track.
[edit] Track listing
All songs by J. G. Thirlwell (as Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel).
- "Theme From Pigdom Come" – 1:52
- "The Throne Of Agony" – 5:18
- "!" – 0:04
- "Pigswill!" – 6:13
- "Descent Into The Inferno" – 6:17
- "Enter The Exterminator" – 4:43
- "DI-1-9026" – 4:40
- "The Overture From Pigdom Come" – 3:01
- "Private War" – 1:06
- "Anything (Viva!)" – 6:50
Some CD pressings place "The Throne of Agony" and "!" together on one track.
[edit] Personnel and Production
- J. G. Thirlwell (as Clint Ruin / Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel) - Performance, production, arrangements
- Warne Livesy - Production, engineering
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Nail at foetus.org
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