The Harold Pig Memorial

Studio album by Circus Devils

Released

2002

Rockathon Records /the Fading Captain Series

Producer

Todd Tobias

Circus Devils chronology

Ringworm Interiors
(2001)

The Harold Pig Memorial
(2002)

Pinball Mars
(2004)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Popmatters	^[2]
The Broken Face	^[3]

The Harold Pig Memorial is the second studio album by Ohio alternative rock band Circus Devils, released in 2002. Conceived as a concept album, each song depicts an episode in the life of biker Harold Pig as told by Harold's friends at his wake. ^[4]

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"the album has an epic sweep to it which makes it feel like a journey. While the nonsequitors and genuinely creepy stretches make Circus Devils' music likely too odd for your average music fan, this isn't a hapless "side project" but an intricate, intoxicating epic showcasing a unique, hybrid form of rock."
- Dave Heaton / Erasing Clouds

"(Robert) Pollard's patented vocal hooks are sprinkled throughout and vicious guitar solos add to the Devils' sweeping sense of barely controlled chaos. The tone of the album remains dark and is again done on a grand soundtrack scale, but whereas Ringworm Interiors had a menacing, unsettling, perhaps David Lynchian feel, The Harold Pig Memorial has a more unifying, often suitably funereal (but still unsettling), musical theme woven throughout."
- Karen E. Graves / allmusic.com

Track listing

Alaska to Burning Men
Saved Herself, Shaved Herself
Soldiers of June
I Guess I Needed That
Festival of Death
Dirty World News
May We See the Hostage
Do You Feel Legal?
A Birdcage Until Further Notice
Injured?
Foxhead Delivery
Last Punk Standing
Bull Spears
Discussions in the Cave
Recirculating Hearse
Pigs Can't Hide (On Their Day Off)
Exoskeleton Motorcade
Real Trip No.3
Vegas
The Pilot's Crucifixion / Indian Oil
Tulip Review
The Harold Pig Memorial

The Harold Pig Memorial

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