''Liquor in the Front'' is the third album by

Reverend Horton Heat The Reverend Horton Heat is the stage name of American musician James C. Heath (born 1959) as well as the name of his Dallas, Texas-based psychobilly trio. Heath is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. A ''Prick'' magazine reviewer called Heath ...

. It was jointly released by

Sub Pop Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. Sub Pop achieved fame in the early 1990s for signing Seattle bands such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney, central players in the grunge movement. They are often ...

and

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in July 1994.

Al Jourgensen Alain David Jourgensen (born Alejandro Ramírez Casas; October 9, 1958) is a Cuban-American singer, musician and music producer. Closely related with the independent record label Wax Trax! Records, his musical career spans four decades. He is be ...

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fame produced the album. The album continues the band's guitar-heavy

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style flavored with punk rock,

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and

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elements. The back cover album art displays the subtitle "Poker in the Rear". The song "In Your Wildest Dreams" (along with "The Reverend" himself) was featured in the TV shows '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' and ''

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''. "I Can't Surf" appeared in ''

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''. "Baddest of the Bad" was in ''

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'' and '' Dexter: New Blood''. The film '' Free Willy 3: The Rescue'' featured "Big Sky".

Track listing

All songs were written by Jim Heath except as noted. #"Big Sky" – 3:07 #"Baddest of the Bad" – 2:27 #"

One Time for Me "One Time For Me" is a CD single by The Reverend Horton Heat. It was released in Australia in 1994 on Sub Pop/Interscope. Track listing # "One Time for Me" (Heath) - 3:30 # "Marijuana (live)" (Reverend Horton Heat) # "Nurture My Pig (live)" (Loc ...

" – 3:30 #"Five-O Ford" – 2:29 #"In Your Wildest Dreams" (Heath/Wallace) – 2:58 #"Yeah, Right" – 2:44 #"Crusin' for a Bruisin'" – 3:20 #"I Could Get Used to It" – 1:58 #"Liquor, Beer & Wine" (Heath/Livingston) – 3:25 #"I Can't Surf" (Heath/Wallace/Bentley) – 2:41 #"

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" (Shanklin) – 3:11 #"Rockin' Dog" – 2:38 #" The Entertainer" ( Joplin) – 1:14

Personnel

*Jim "Reverend Horton" Heath –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

*Jimbo Wallace –

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Taz Bentley Patrick Bentley, better known as Taz or The Taz, is an American rock and roll drummer. He got his start as a founding member of the local Dallas punk band, The Assassins, and is probably best known for his work with The Reverend Horton Heat, ...

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

*Tim Alexander –

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accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

– producer,

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, piano, vocals *Siavoch Ahmadzadeh – assistant engineer *Keith Rust – assistant engineer *Jeff Lane – assistant mix engineer *Barry Goldberg – assistant mix engineer *Eddy Schreyer – mastering *Kim Holt – art direction + design *Michael Lavine – band photos *Mosquito – cartoon illustrations

Chart positions

Album

Singles

References

{{Reflist 1994 albums The Reverend Horton Heat albums Albums produced by Al Jourgensen Sub Pop albums Interscope Records albums