''1000 Hurts'' is the third

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by American rock band

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, released on August 8, 2000. In its official promotional materials Shellac jokingly described this album as follows: "There are no 12-minute songs on this one. This record is more mean-spirited. Todd sings." The cover is a clear homage to old

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audio recording tape boxes. The band are known for using analog tape for their recordings, and are fans of Ampex tape and tape recorders. The speech at the start of the record is a variation on the announcements one would hear on Magnetic Reference Laboratory's calibration tapes for analog tape recorders. The title refers to one-thousand

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(rendered 1000 Hz), a measure used in audio recording describing a

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cycling 1,000 times per second. ''1000 Hurts'' was named ''Rockfeedback'' magazine's record of the decade in 2009. Jehnny Beth of Savages named the album one of her biggest influences, saying that it had made her "want to be a bassist".

Track listing

Personnel

* Shellac: **

Steve Albini Steven Frank Albini (; July 22, 1962 – May 7, 2024) was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989) and Shellac (band), ...

– electric guitar, vocals ** Todd Trainer – drums, vocals ** Bob Weston – bass guitar, vocals * Bill Skibbe – tape operator * Rob Bochnik – tape operator * Greg Norman – tape operator * John Loder – mastering * Steve Rooke – mastering

Charts

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(North America)

References

{{Authority control Shellac (band) albums 2000 albums Touch and Go Records albums Albums produced by Steve Albini Albums produced by Bob Weston Albums produced by Todd Trainer