''God Bless Miss Black America'' is a studio album released on by

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. It was Miss Black America's debut album.

Track listing

Production

The album was recorded between and at The Magic Garden in

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. All lyrics were written by Seymour Glass (with the exception of ''"Scream For Me"'', which also features vocals from Mike Smith) and all music was written by Miss Black America. It was produced by Gavin Monaghan. It was engineered by Andy Taylor. It was mastered by Ian Shepherd at SRT. Photography for the artwork was produced by Julia Kidd and Daisy Metz.

Personnel

*Seymour Glass - vocals, additional guitars *Mickey Smith - bass, extra vocals on ''Scream For Me'' *Neil D. Baldwin - drums *Gish - guitarGod Bless Miss Black America sleeve notes

Singles

Five tracks from the album were released as single, they were; *''Don't Speak My Mind'' *''Infinite Chinese Box'' *''Talk Hard'' *''Miss Black America'' *''Human Punk'' (included on the ''"Adrenaline Junkie Class-A Mentalist"'' E.P.) All five were included in two of

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's Festive Fiftys. ''"Don't Speak My Mind"'' and ''"Human Punk"'' were included in the 2001 list, placed at number 42 and number 14 respectively, while ''"Infinite Chinese Box"'', ''"Miss Black America"'' and ''"Talk Hard"'' were placed at 45, 11 and 3 respectively in the 2002 list.

Reception

The album has been described as a ''"fast 'n' hard sonic pummelling"'',Williams, Gen, "God Bless Miss Black America", Drowned in Sound, Sept 21, 2002 and that ''"much of God Bless sounds like the more mature

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playing U2's Boy"''.Simpson, Dave, "God Bless Miss Black America", The Guardian, Sept 12, 2002

References

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