Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock

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Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock
Studio album by Sebadoh
Released	November 6, 1992
Recorded	December 1991-June 1992
Genre	Indie
Length	38:22
Label	Sub Pop
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau link
Sebadoh chronology
Sebadoh III (1991) Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock (1992) Bubble and Scrape (1993)

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock was Sebadoh's Sub Pop debut, released in 1992. It compiles most songs from two EPs, Rocking the Forest and Sebadoh vs. Helmet, while altering the track names and truncating their number. Songs from the original Domino releases absent here include "Gimme Indie Rock", "Ride the Darker Wave", "It's So Hard to Fall in Love" and "Really Insane II" from Rocking the Forest and "Soulmate" from Sebadoh vs. Helmet

[edit] Track listing

1. "Cry Sis" (Gaffney) - 2:52 *
2. "Brand New Love" (Barlow) - 4:04
3. "Notsur Dnoura Selcric" (Loewenstein) - 3:04
4. "Vampire" (Barlow) - 2:43 *
5. "Good Things" (Barlow) - 1:26
6. "Cecilia Chime in Melee" (Gaffney) - 4:19
7. "Everybody's Been Burned" (David Crosby) 3:15
8. "Junk Bonds" - (Loewenstein) 1:53 *
9. "New Worship" (Barlow) - 2:21
10. "Mean Distance" (Gaffney) - 3:12
11. "Pink Moon" (Nick Drake) - 2:02
12. "Mind Meld" (Fay) - 7:10 *

• An asterisk (*) denotes tracks taken from Rocking the Forest.

[edit] Personnel

• Jason Loewenstein - Bass. Drums, Vocals, Guitar
• Lou Barlow - Guitar, Vocals, Bass
• Eric Gaffney - Guitar, Drums, Bass, Synthesizer
• Bob Fay - Drums, Guitar, Vocals
• Recorded by Bob Weston.