| When the Kite String Pops | ||||
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| Studio album by Acid Bath | ||||
| Released | August 8, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | Side One, Metairie, Louisiana |
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| Genre | Sludge metal | |||
| Length | 69:14 | |||
| Label | Rotten Records | |||
| Producer | Spike Cassidy Greg Troyner Acid Bath |
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| Allmusic | [1] |
When the Kite String Pops is the debut album of American sludge metal band Acid Bath. Released on August 8, 1994, it is considered an underground classic. The album's artwork is a painting made by notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy while in prison awaiting execution. On the Double Live Bootleg! DVD (2002), Dax Riggs introduced the song "Tranquilized" by saying, "This song is about getting high any way you do it, and kicking the earth from beneath you" and "Cheap Vodka" by saying, "This song is about getting wasted and killing things, blood, sex, and blasphemy." "Toubabo Koomi" is Cajun French for "land of the white cannibals." It was the only Acid Bath song that was made into a music video. The song "God Machine" begins with a spoken word introduction by Dax Riggs.
In 1999, sales of the album were just over 37,000 copies in the US, which is higher than average for a band with no publicity and released exclusively on an independent label.[2]
Contents |
All songs written and composed by Acid Bath.
Side One
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Blue" | 6:13 |
| 2. | "Tranquilized" | 4:14 |
| 3. | "Cheap Vodka" | 2:14 |
| 4. | "Finger Paintings of the Insane" | 6:04 |
| 5. | "Jezebel" | 4:53 |
| 6. | "Scream of the Butterfly" | 6:14 |
| 7. | "Dr. Seuss is Dead" | 6:04 |
Side Two
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Dope Fiend" | 5:19 |
| 2. | "Toubabo Koomi" | 5:01 |
| 3. | "God Machine" | 5:00 |
| 4. | "The Morticians Flame" | 4:05 |
| 5. | "What Color is Death" | 3:19 |
| 6. | "The Bones of Baby Dolls" | 6:00 |
| 7. | "Cassie Eats Cockroaches" | 4:22 |
Track 14 contains samples from the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, as well as the 1986 David Lynch film Blue Velvet.