Earth vs the Wildhearts

Earth Vs The Wildhearts
Studio album by The Wildhearts
Released August, 1993
Recorded 1993
Genre Rock
Length 49:21
Label East West/Bronze
Producer The Wildhearts
The Wildhearts chronology
Earth Vs The Wildhearts
(1993)
Fishing for Luckies
(1994)

Earth Vs The Wildhearts is the debut studio album by British rock band The Wildhearts, released in 1993. The title is based on such B-movie titles as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and Earth vs. the Spider.

Billy Morrison, of Camp Freddy and Circus Diablo, states that Earth Vs. The Wildhearts is one of his favourite albums of all time.[1]

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Track listing

All Songs Written By Ginger.

No. Title Length
1. "Greetings from Shitsville"   4:32
2. "TV Tan"   4:30
3. "Everlone"   6:30
4. "Shame on Me"   3:58
5. "Loveshit"   3:57
6. "Miles Away Girl"   5:37
7. "My Baby Is a Headfuck"   4:27
8. "Suckerpunch"   2:59
9. "News of the World"   5:49
10. "Drinking About Life"   2:03
11. "Love You 'till I Don't"   5:04

Released: August 1993 · Label: East West · UK Chart: No. 46 Formats: CD (4509-93201-2), LP (4509-93287-1), Cassette (4509-93287-4). Re-issued in February 1994 with addition of the track "Caffeine Bomb" and different rear sleeve on CD (4509-94859-2) and Cassette (4509-94859-4). The re-issue charted in UK at #210. Earth Vs the Wildhearts was voted the number #1 album of 1993 by Kerrang! magazine in their yearly poll. In 2006, Kerrang rated it #20 in a special publication of the best Rock Albums.

Personnel

with the following additional musicians:

Mick Ronson contributed one of the three guitar solos on "My Baby is a Headfuck." This is believed to be Ronson's final appearance on record before his death on April 29, 1993.

References

Allmusic, The Wildhearts: Biography, retrieved November 9, 2008.

Darren Stockford, DO ANYTHING: The Life and Times of the Wildhearts, retrieved November 9, 2008.