Hold Your Tongue

by Alter Natives

Hold Your Tongue cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: SST
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:17
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released on the iconic SST Records, this Richmond, Virginia quartet offers an intense, entirely instrumental collision of punk rock energy and complex jazz-fusion. The manic, highly technical musicianship pushes the boundaries of art punk into deeply experimental territories.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, saxophone, experimental, fusion, avant-garde, complex

Tracklist

  1. Sunset (2:02)
  2. The Nipple Factor (2:22)
  3. Blood On the Highway (1:22)
  4. Sole (2:41)
  5. Pit Rye Thumb (0:50)
  6. Firewater/Auxiliary Drain (3:01)
  7. Over the Counter Culture (4:23)
  8. 701 (1:48)
  9. Paraquat (1:13)
  10. Circular Motions (1:53)
  11. Chicken Box (1:25)
  12. House of Tofu (2:01)
  13. Jesus Goes To Straight (1:18)
  14. Out of My Brain (1:25)
  15. Living On Starch (2:57)
  16. Stinky Hole (4:28)

Credits

  • Eric Bopst - artwork [front cover]
  • Chris Bopst - bass
  • Jim Thomson - drums
  • Greg Ottinger - guitar
  • Eric Ungar - horns, artwork by [back cover]
  • Alter-Natives - Primary Artist

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