User:AndrewAntle/Won't You Dance With This Man?
| Won't You Dance With This Man? | ||||
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| File:Slim-moon wont-you-dance-with-this-man folder.jpg | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 19, 1997 | |||
| Genre | Spoken word, Performance poetry | |||
| Length | 52:35 | |||
| Label | Hydra Head Records (HH666-41) (HH666-141) (Reissue) | |||
| Producer | Matt Bayles, Botch | |||
| Slim Moon chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Absolute Punk | 93% link |
| Drowned in Sound |   link |
| Exclaim! | (Positive) link |
| Montreal Mirror | link |
| Punknews.org | link |
| Stylus Magazine | (B+) link |
We Are the Romans was the seminal third album by Botch, and was released in a digipak in the US. It was released by Hydra Head Records on January 1, 2000, and subsequently re-released on September 11, 2007.[1]
"C. Thomas Howell as the 'Soul Man'" has been described by the band as satirizing Racetraitor and "other bands with these very lofty political ideals that seemed like more a marketing tool for the genre of political hardcore rather than a sincere agenda" (Brian Cook).[2] Bassist Brian Cook, who determined many of the song titles, credits J. G. Ballard's book The Atrocity Exhibition as inspiring themes of "the human body as a landscape, and the way that culture and environment sort of dictates the human body and vice versa."[2]
Track listing
[edit]- "To Our Friends in the Great White North" – 5:10
- "Mondrian Was a Liar" – 2:41
- "Transitions from Persona to Object" – 6:04
- "Swimming the Channel Vs. Driving the Chunnel" – 4:30
- "C. Thomas Howell as the "Soul Man"" – 4:44
- "Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb" – 3:04
- "Frequency Ass Bandit" – 4:26
- "I Wanna Be a Sex Symbol on My Own Terms" – 3:35
- "Man the Ramparts" – 10:50
- "Thank God for Worker Bees (Remix)" – 7:27 (hidden track)
Disc 2 (Remastered Deluxe Edition)
- To Our Friends in the Great White North (demo)
- I Wanna Be a Sex Symbol on My Own Terms (demo)
- Transitions from Persona to Object (demo)
- Mondrian Was a Liar (demo)
- Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb (demo)
- C. Thomas Howell As the “Soul Man” (demo)
- Man the Ramparts (demo)
- Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb (live)
- Vietmam (live)
- Transitions from Persona to Object (live)
- Hutton’s Great Heat Engine (live)
Credits
[edit]Band members
[edit]- Brian Cook – Bass Guitar
- Dave Knudson – Guitar, art direction, design
- Dave Verellen – vocals
- Tim Latona - drums
Other personnel
[edit]- Matt Bayles – production, engineer, mixing
- Ed Brooks – mastering
- Carrie Whitney – photography
References
[edit]- ^ "Botch - We Are The Romans [Deluxe]". Punknews.org. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ a b J. Bennett, "Fallen Empire", Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, Albert Mudrian, ed., Da Capo Press, p. 322.