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Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt

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Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
EP by
ReleasedApril 16, 1996
Recorded1996 (1996)
GenreAlternative rock
Length19:08
LabelDGC/Minty Fresh
ProducerSteve Albini
Veruca Salt chronology
American Thighs
(1994)
Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
(1996)
Eight Arms to Hold You
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide(3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention)[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB[4]
MusicHound Rock[5]

Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt is an EP by Veruca Salt released in 1996. It followed the band's hit album American Thighs (1994). The EP contains four songs, two by Nina Gordon and two by Louise Post.

The album art shows the band dressed in toilet paper. In the liner notes, bassist Steve Lack is credited under his actual name, Stephen J. Lackiewicz.

Track listing

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  1. "Shimmer Like a Girl" (Nina Gordon) – 4:03
  2. "I'm Taking Europe with Me" (Louise Post) – 3:45
  3. "New York Mining Disaster 1996" (Gordon) – 4:56
  4. "Disinherit" (Post) – 6:25

Personnel

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"Shimmer Like a Girl" is often used as the main theme song for Shimmer Women Athletes, a Chicago-based all-female wrestling promotion.

"I'm Taking Europe with Me" was featured in the closing credits for Matthew Bright's motion picture Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby.

Charts

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Chart (1996) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[6] 194

References

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  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Blow It out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt". AllMusic. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). "Veruca Salt". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 9780312245603.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). "Veruca Salt". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8 (4th ed.). New York : MUZE : Oxford University Press. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Romero, Michele (1996-05-17). "Blow It Out Your A-- It's Veruca Salt". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  5. ^ Fuoco, Christina (1999). "Veruca Salt". MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. p. 1198 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ "Veruca Salt chart history, received from ARIA on June 14, 2024". Imgur. Retrieved June 14, 2024. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column indicates the release's title on the national chart.