Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (Chris Mars album)

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
Studio album by Chris Mars
Released	1992
Length	47:37
Label	Smash
Producer	Chris Mars & Tom Herbers
Chris Mars chronology
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (1992) 75% Less Fat (1993)

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is the 1992 debut solo album by Chris Mars.

The album contains the hit song "Popular Creeps," which denounces snooty high school cliques. Most songs seem to cover break-ups, mental illness, homelessness as a trend, alienation, and apparently the rest of his former band, The Replacements.

The track, "Better Days", is about being sick at home from school and experiencing hallucinations from tainted cold medicine.

Though Mars performs primarily as a one-man band, J.D. Foster plays the bass guitar. Songs such as "Monkey Sees", "Before It Began" and "City Lights on Mars" are backed by Dan Murphy and David Pirner from Soul Asylum.

Track listing

1. Reverse Status (3:12)
2. Popular Creeps (3:04)
3. Outer Limits (3:17)
4. Before it Began (3:51)
5. Get Out of My Life (3:17)
6. Monkey Sees (3:55)
7. Ego Maniac (2:34)
8. Midnight Carnival (4:17)
9. I, Me, We, Us, Them (3:43)
10. Don't You See It (3:51)
11. Happy Disconnections (3:11)
12. Better Days (3:03)
13. City Lights on Mars (2:49)
14. Last Drop (3:33)

External links

• Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (All-Music Guide)