Veruca Salt: Discography

 

Veruca Salt is an American alternative rock band founded in Chicago in 1992 by vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, drummer Jim Shapiro, and bassist Steve Lack. They are best known for

their first single, "Seether", which was released on the 1994 album American Thighs. That success was followed up with 1997's Eight Arms to Hold You. By 1998, Post was the only original member still in the band and continued on with other musicians. Veruca Salt released the album Resolver in 2000 and the album IV in 2006. After a hiatus in 2012, the band reformed with its original lineup. Their fifth studio album, Ghost Notes, was released in 2015.
                           

Veruca Salt reshaped the jagged, abrasive punk-pop of the Pixies and Breeders into a more

accessible, riff-driven power pop formula that also borrowed from pop/hard rockers like Cheap Trick. It was a successful formula, both musically and commercially, yet it didn't ensure them indie rock credibility; in fact, they became one of the most harshly criticized bands of the post-Nirvana alternative rock era, despite being one of the first female-fronted outfits to achieve stardom in that genre.
          

Named after Veruca Salt, the spoiled rotten rich girl from the 1964 children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Veruca Salt was formed in Chicago in 1992 by Louise Post (guitar and vocals) and Nina Gordon (guitar and vocals). Post and Gordon were introduced through

mutual friend Lili Taylor, and began playing music together. They wrote songs for a year and a half before placing an ad in the Chicago Sun-Times for an all-female rhythm section. Instead the band was joined by Gordon's brother Jim Shapiro on drums and Steve Lack on bass.[3] Songwriting was shared between Gordon and Post, though the two seldom collaborated. Rather, each would typically submit a complete song to the group and sing the lead vocals on that song, while the other would record backing vocals.
               

While supporting Hole on their fall tour, Veruca Salt released the debut album American Thighs on the Minty Fresh label, yet they soon cut a major-label deal with Geffen, which then re-released the album.

"Seether" became an MTV hit as well, and soon the single was an across-the-board success. A stop-gap EP which was recorded by Steve Albini, Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt, was released in 1996.[3] In 1996, Veruca Salt appeared as Pavement's replacement band in their video "Painted Soldiers". Veruca Salt's second album, Eight Arms to Hold You, was produced by Bob Rock and released in 1997. Lead single "Volcano Girls" gained exposure as the opening theme to the teen comedy film Jawbreaker.
                  

Gordon and Post started working together on Veruca Salt's third album. However, after an argument between the two, Gordon left the band to pursue a solo career in 1998. (Gordon's first album, Tonight and the Rest of My Life, was released in 2000 and featured drumming by Stacy Jones, who had also left

Veruca Salt and was in a relationship with Gordon). The dispute between Gordon and Post has been described as "one of the greatest rock soap operas since Fleetwood Mac or Hüsker Dü." Post, as the only remaining band member, contributed the song "Somebody" to the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses before recruiting a new lineup. Guitarist Stephen Fitzpatrick joined and went on to become one of Post's principal songwriting partners during the next decade.
            

Undeterred, Post regrouped Veruca Salt as her own project. Now boasting a revised lineup including

guitarist Stephen Fitzpatrick, bassist Suzanne Sokol, and drummer Jimmy Madla, the band left Geffen Records (which had been swallowed by a corporate merger) and inked a new record deal with Beyond. They also entered the studio to record Resolver, a fiery album that dealt with Gordon's departure and Post's failed relationship with Dave Grohl.
               

With an ever-changing lineup (now featuring Post, Fitzpatrick, drummer Kelli Scott, and bassist Nicole Fiorentino), Veruca Salt then recorded another five-song EP, 2005's Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things. An additional full-length album, IV, was issued the following year. Following a lackluster public

response to the album, the band went on a lengthy hiatus. As unexpectedly as they'd parted ways, Gordon and Post announced in 2013 that they had "buried the hatchet" and were reuniting the band's original lineup. They jokingly referred to the era following Gordon's departure as "Veruca Starship" and readied new material, the first taste of which was 2014's Record Store Day EP MMXIV. The full-length Ghost Notes followed in July 2015.
                 

DISCOGRAPHY STUDIO ALBUMS

                   

American Thighs 1994
Eight Arms to Hold You 1997
Resolver 2000
IV 2006
Ghost Notes 2015

EPs

Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt 1996
MMXIV 2014

01.  VERUCA SALT - AMERICAN THINGS 1994

                          

Nina Gordon and Louise Post try hard to inject meaning into the sweet, distorted rush of "Seether," but

all that sticks is the infectious melody and crushing guitars. That also applies to the slower songs, from the enchanting lust of "Spiderman '79" to "Forsythia," which is too close to the Breeders' Pod for comfort. But musically, American Thighs is surprisingly satisfying; it's a pure pop album masquerading as the next big thing.
                        

Veruca Salt – American Thighs
Label: Minty Fresh – mf-7
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Sep 1994
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

TRACKS

                    

01. Get Back    3:13
02. All Hail Me    3:05
03. Seether    3:16
04. Spiderman '79   5:16
05. Forsythia    4:44
06. Wolf    4:19
07. Celebrate You    4:20
08. Fly    3:38
09. Number One Blind    3:44
10. Victrola    2:18
11. Twinstar    3:16
12. 25    7:56
13. Sleeping Where I Want    3:19

LINE - UP

Nina Gordon – guitar, vocals
Louise Post – guitar, vocals
Steve Lack – bass guitar
Jim Shapiro – drums, background vocals

Additional musicians

Christian Lane – additional vocals (on "Spiderman")

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02.  VERUCA SALT - BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS IT'S VERUCA SALT (7" EP) 1996

                 

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.
                 

Veruca Salt – Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
Label: DGC – DGCDM-22212
Format: CD, EP
Country: US
Released: Apr 16, 1996
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

TRACKS

                

01. Shimmer Like A Girl    4:03
02. I'm Taking Europe With Me    3:45
03. New York Mining Disaster 1996    4:56
04. Disinherit    6:25

LINE - UP

                    

Bass – Stephen J Lachawicx
Drums, Vocals – Jim Shapiro
Guitar, Vocals - Nina Gordon
Guitar, Vocals – Louise Post

Flac Size: 127 MB

03.  EIGHT ARMS TO HOLD YOU 1997

                        

Eight Arms to Hold You is the second studio album by alternative rock band Veruca Salt. It was released on February 11, 1997, through Outpost/Geffen Records. The album was produced by Bob Rock. The title is a reference to the working title for The Beatles' film eventually titled Help!. Eight

Arms to Hold You peaked at number 55 on the Billboard 200. The single "Volcano Girls", written by Nina Gordon, was a rock radio hit. Veruca Salt performed "Shutterbug", written by Louise Post, on Saturday Night Live. Besides those two, there were three other singles released from the album: "Benjamin", "The Morning Sad", and "Straight". This was the last album to feature all of the original band members—Gordon, Post, Steve Lack, and Jim Shapiro—until the 2015 album Ghost Notes.
                     

Veruca Salt – Eight Arms To Hold You
Label: Outpost Recordings – OPRSD-30001, Minty Fresh – none
Format: CD, Album
Country: Canada
Released: 1997
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

TRACKS

            

01. Straight    2:32
02. Volcano Girls    3:18
03. Don't Make Me Prove It    2:29
04. Awesome    3:32
05. One Last Time    4:45
06. With David Bowie    2:25
07. Benjamin    4:05
08. Shutterbug    4:16
09. The Morning Sad    3:08
10. Sound Of The Bell    3:59
11. Loneliness Is Worse    5:00
12. Stoneface    2:44
13. Venus Man Trap    3:29
14. Earthcrosser    5:28

LINE - UP

Bass – Steve Lack
Drums, Backing Vocals – Jim Shapiro
Guitar – Louise Post, Nina Gordon, Steve Lack
Percussion [Additional] – Jim McGillveray
Vocals – Louise Post, Nina Gordon
Written-By – Post (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 13), Gordon (tracks: 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14)

Flac Size: 372 MB

04.  VERUCA SALT - RESOLVER 2000

                   

Resolver is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Veruca Salt. It was released on

May 16, 2000, on Beyond Records, followed by an Australian release on December 6, 2002. The album was the first for the band after the departure of all the founding members but Louise Post, who became the band's sole frontwoman. Like their previous album, Eight Arms to Hold You, the title is inspired by The Beatles; in this case, a play on the title of their 1966 album Revolver.
                         

Veruca Salt – Resolver
Label: Velveteen Records – 63985-78103-2, Beyond – 63985-78103-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2000
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

TRACKS

                   

01. The Same Person    1:03
02. Born Entertainer    2:40
03. Best You Can Get    2:45
04. Wet Suit    4:23
05. Yeah Man    3:29
06. Imperfectly    4:14
07. Officially Dead    2:49
08. Only You Know    4:07
09. Disconnected    4:46
10. All Dressed Up    5:53
11. Used To Know Her    4:34
12. Pretty Boys    3:07
13. Hellraiser    3:53

LINE - UP

                

Bass, Guitar, Vocals – Kevin Tihista
Bass, Vocals – Brian Liesegang, Louise Post, Suzanne Sokol
Cello – Eric Remschneider
Drums – Jimmy Madla, Kellii Scott, Matt Walker
Guitar – Brian Liesegang, Louise Post, Stephen Fitzpatrick
Guitar [Additional] – Scott Pazera
Keyboards – Brian Liesegang, Louise Post
Percussion – Jimmy Madla, Matt Walker
Written-By – Brian Liesegang (tracks: 3, 8), Kevin Tihista (tracks: 6, 7, 13), Louise Post

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05.  VERUCA SALT - IV 2006

                 

IV is the fourth full-length studio album by alternative rock band Veruca Salt. It was released on

September 12, 2006 in the United States and on September 25, 2006 in Australia. This is the last album to feature Stephen Fitzpatrick on guitars and the only album to feature Kellii Scott on drums and Nicole Fiorentino on bass.
                

Veruca Salt – IV
Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry – SFTRI 780
Format: CD, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: Sep 12, 2006
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

TRACKS

              

01. So Weird    3:35
02. Centipede    3:00
03. Innocent    2:53
04. Circular Trend    2:42
05. Perfect Love    3:42
06. Closer    3:27
07. Sick As Your Secrets    5:36
08. Wake Up Dead    3:34
09. Damage Done    4:10
10. Blissful Queen    3:44
11. The Sun    3:57
12. Comes And Goes    2:30
13. Save You    4:24
14. Salt Flat Epic    7:57

LINE - UP

Bass – Solomon Snyder
Cello – Paul Wianco
Drums, Percussion – Kellii Scott
Guitar, Mellotron – Stephen Fitzpatrick
Piano – Jonny Polonsky
Vocals, Bass – Nicole Fiorentino
Vocals, Guitar, Percussion – Louise Post
Written-By – Liesegang (tracks: 14), Post, Fitzpatrick (tracks: 1 to 3, 6, 7, 11, 13)

Flac Size: 368 MB

06.  VERUCA SALT - MMXIV (7" EP) 2014

                    

MMXIV is a 2014 EP by Veruca Salt. This is their first release with the original lineup since Eight

Arms to Hold You in 1997. It was released on vinyl for Record Store Day 2014. "The Museum of Broken Relationships" was later included on the band's album Ghost Notes (2015).
                   

Veruca Salt – MMXIV
Label: Minty Fresh – mf-200
Format: Vinyl, 10", 45 RPM, Record Store Day
Country: USA & Canada
Released: Apr 19, 2014
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative

SIDE V.

                      

V1. The Museum Of Broken Relationships   2:34
Written-By – Veruca Salt
V2. It's Holy   3:25
Written-By – Veruca Salt

SIDE S.

                 

B. Seether   3:19
Written-By – Gordon

LINE - UP

Louise Post – Guitar/Vocals
Nina Gordon – Guitar/Vocals
Steve Lack – Bass
Jim Shapiro – Drums

Flac Size: 68.5 MB

07.  VERUCA SALT - GHOST NOTES 2015

                    

Ghost Notes is the fifth full-length studio album by American rock band Veruca Salt, released on July 10, 2015, through El Camino Records. It is the first to feature the band's original lineup since their

second album, Eight Arms to Hold You (1997). Following the band's 1997 release Eight Arms to Hold You, drummer Jim Shapiro quit. Shortly after, in 1998, Nina Gordon and bassist Steve Lack also left, leaving Louise Post to release two new Veruca Salt albums with other musicians, Resolver in 2000, and IV in 2006. Gordon told The Los Angeles Times that after seeing the reception from Mazzy Star's 2012 reunion she got the desire to make music with Post again. The two met up for the first time in 14 years and began writing music that would become Ghost Notes.
                

Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes
Label: El Camino Media – ECM040-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Jul 10, 2015
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock

TRACKS

                 

01. The Gospel According To Saint Me     3:50
02. Black And Blonde    4:07
03. Eyes On You    3:17
04. Prince Of Wales    5:36
05. The Sound Of Leaving    3:32
06. Love You Less    3:10
07. Laughing In The Sugar Bowl    2:16
08. Empty Bottle    5:54
09. Come Clean, Dark Thing    3:22
10. I'm Telling You Now   3:29
Backing Vocals – Christian Lane
Handclaps – Joel Mark (4), Sophie Mark
11. Triage    3:36
12. Lost To Me    4:11
13. The Museum Of Broken Relationships    2:35
14. Alternica   5:58
Backing Vocals – Kay Hanley, Michelle Lewis

LINE - UP

Louise Post – guitar, vocals
Nina Gordon – guitar, vocals
Steve Lack – bass guitar
Jim Shapiro – drums, vocals (backing)

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Kay Hanley – vocals
Michelle Lewis – vocals
Christian Lane – vocals (backing)
Joel Mark – handclapping
Sophie Mark – handclapping
Chick Wolverton – percussion

Flac Size: 410 MB

The Quarter After: The Quarter After 2005

 

It’s been about ten years since the release of the debut album by California’s own The Quarter After, flag wavers for all things melodious and harmonious in the vocal department, combined with the jangle,

fuzz, and noise of their soaring guitars. In the grand tradition of many rock’n’roll “brother” bands, the Quarter After is led by the two Campanella siblings- songwriter/singer Dominic and guitarist/producer Robert. Between them, singing brothers Dominic Campanella and Rob Campanella have been at least an adjunct member of just about every band in the axis between the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Beachwood Sparks and the Tyde.
                      

                          
The Quarter After was formed in the first year of our young century in the Campanella’s home town of Los Angeles.  The brothers started jamming with a young bass guitar wizard from Ohio, Dave Koenig (ex- Brian Jonestown Massacre, currently Spindrift) and dynamic veteran east coast drummer Nelson Bragg (now in the Brian Wilson Band) to create a propulsive and sympathetic rhythm section to

complement  their psychedelic/folk sounds.  The quartet came of age in the burgeoning L.A. psych scene along side such bands as the Beachwood Sparks, the Warlocks, and the Tyde.  After honing their live show playing gigs up and down the West Coast, The Quarter After were personally chosen by Arthur Lee and Love to be the only opening band for his first show in seven years after his release from prison.  After such a triumph and upward momentum the Quarter After did what any decent band would do—break up for almost two years.
                  

But in 2003, inspired by an invitation to open up a show with their friends, Dead Meadow, the band reformed and the reconvened in the studio to finally put together their first album.  Their eponymous debut was released on Ric Menck’s Birdsong label and earned impressive reviews. The record confounded only those critics who couldn’t wrap their heads around a band that could write near-

perfect 3 minute pop songs and have them co-exist alongside extended, spiraling, psychedelic epics.  One person who understood where the Quarter After were coming from happened to be musician and DJ, Steve Jones, who began spinning songs from this record on his influential and popular radio show, Jonesy’s Jukebox, on LA’s Indie 103.1 FM.  Jonesy not only regularly began playing “A Parting”, one the finest examples of Dominic’s songcraft, but also the band’s nearly 12 minute psych tour-de-force “Too Much To Think About”— a highlight of The Quarter After’s live show.
                           

The band is now looked upon by those in the know to be one of the leaders in the “3rd Wave Of Psychedelia,” and selections from the band’s first record were chosen to be on the “Turn On Your Mind” compilation  put out by Psyilocybin Sounds and Northern Star Records’ “Psychedelica: Volume

II” compilation. The Quarter After recently completed a late summer tour of the U.K. with fellow compatriots the Asteroid #4, creating their biggest buzz so far and plans are currently being made for tours of North America and Europe in support of the new record.  Changes Near is being released on newly revamped label the Committee To Keep Music Evil, a partnership between Rob and Anton of the BJM, manufactured and distributed through Cargo U.K.  

                        

THE QUARTER AFTER - THE QUARTER AFTER

                          

Unsurprisingly, the self-titled debut by their own band works that circa-'67 L.A. sound, with heavy

echoes of the pre-David Axelrod the Electric Prunes, Buffalo Springfield, and various other half-forgotten exemplars of the sound, minimizing the country-rock inflections of Beachwood Sparks (only notable on the Neil Young-like "Mirror to You") or much of the slightly unhinged experimentalism of the the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
                          

For a little less than half of the album, the brothers, along with bassist David Koenig and drummer

Nelson Bragg, do a pretty good pastiche of Sunset Strip psychedelia, kicking up a particularly lysergic head of steam on the self-explanatory "One Trip Later." If you don't like the Acid-Guitar Jams, may you have a little problem because the other half of the album, nearly a full thirty minutes, consists of three endless Acid-Guitar Jams.
                    

"A fusion of dreamy '60's folk-pop melodies, reminiscent of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Love, and a few lesser known Sunset Strip Bands"
- ALTERNATIVE PRESS
                      

The Quarter After – The Quarter After
Label: Bird Song Recordings – BSCD 101
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2005
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: New-Psychedelic Rock, Country Rock, Folk Rock

TRACKS

                                              

01. So Far To Fall   3:42
Tambourine – Twink (M.I.A.)
Written-By – D. Koenig, D. Campanella, R. Campanella
02. Your Side Is Mine   2:43
Written-By – D. Campanella, R. Campanella
03. Always Returning   4:35
Bongos, Other [Whirly-pipe] – Andy Campanella
Written-By – D. Campanella, R. Campanella
04. A Parting   4:42
Backing Vocals – Kathrin Shorr, Mara Keagle, Miranda Lee Richards
Written-By – D. Campanella
05. Too Much To Think About   11:57
Effects [Echoplex Noise] – Anton Newcombe
Narrator [Narration] – Dad
Written-By – D. Koenig, D. Campanella, N. Bragg, R. Campanella
06. Know Me When I'm Gone   7:15  
Written-By – D. Koenig, D. Campanella, N. Bragg, R. Campanella
07. Mirror To You   4:07
Steel Guitar – Farmer Dave Scher
Written-By – D. Campanella, N. Bragg, R. Campanella
08. One Trip Later   3:44
Tambourine – Twink
Written-By – D. Koenig, D. Campanella, N. Bragg, R. Campanella
09. Taken   9:16
Other [Bathroom Sink During The Quiet Part] – Brandi
Written-By – D. Campanella, R. Campanella
10. Everything Again   2:59
Written-By – D. Campanella

LINE - UP

                                

David Koenig - Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar [12-String]
Nelson Bragg - Drums, Vocals, Percussion  
Robert Campanella - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Organ, Mellotron, Mandolin, Guitar [Dobro]
Dominic Campanella  - Vocals, Guitar [12 & 6 String Electric & Acoustic Guitars], Harmonica

Flac Size: 368 MB