''Head'' is the debut studio album by

The Jesus Lizard The Jesus Lizard is an American rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas and based in Chicago, Illinois. They were "a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground… hoturned out a series of independent records filled with s ...

. It was released on

Touch and Go Records Touch and Go Records is an American independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois. After its genesis as a handmade fanzine in 1979, it grew into one of the key record labels in the American 1980s underground and alternative rock scenes. Tou ...

in 1990. It was their first album to feature a drummer,

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Track listing

#"One Evening" – 3:01 #"S.D.B.J." – 2:27 #"My Own Urine" – 3:08 #"If You Had Lips" – 3:13 #"7 vs. 8" – 3:35 #"Pastoral" – 3:29 #"Waxeater" – 2:09 #"Good Thing" – 1:44 #"Tight n' Shiny" – 2:11 #"Killer McHann" – 2:16 CD version includes the ''

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'' EP (1989): #

"Blockbuster" – 3:29 #"Bloody Mary" – 1:59 #"Rabid Pigs" – 2:09 #"Starlet" – 2:42 #"Happy Bunny Goes Fluff-Fluff Along" ("

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") – 3:54

Personnel

David Yow David Yow (born August 2, 1960) is an American musician and actor born in Las Vegas, Nevada and best known as the vocalist for the noise rock bands Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard. Yow's debut solo album, '' Tonight You Look Like a Spider'', w ...

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Duane Denison Duane Denison (born January 21, 1959) is an American guitarist best known for work with the avant-garde rock band The Jesus Lizard. He is also a founding member of super-group Tomahawk. Biography Denison began his musical career by studying c ...

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* David Wm. Sims - bass,

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Additional personnel

* Suzy Korn -

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References

1990 debut albums Touch and Go Records albums The Jesus Lizard albums Albums produced by Steve Albini {{1990s-alt-rock-album-stub