''La Mano Cornuda'' is the second studio album by the
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Supersuckers
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. It was released on March 1, 1994, on
Sub Pop
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. The title is
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for ''the
horned hand'', a reference to the hand sign often seen at rock and roll shows.
Critical reception
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'' deemed the album "hard rocking songs about hard drinking hard men."
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'' wrote that "Conrad Uno’s production doesn’t raise ackEndino’s blinding gleam, but the effect is salutary, allowing the band to indulge its naturally wanton slop-rock instincts to great hairy effect."
Track listing
#"Creepy Jackalope Eye"
#"Seventeen Poles"
#"High Ya!"
#"On the Couch"
#"Clueless
#"Sugie"
#"Mudhead"
#"Gold Top"
#"How to Maximize Your Kill Count"
#"I Was Born Without a Spine"
#"Glad Damn Glad"
#"She's My Bitch"
#"The Schmooze"
Notes
*The third track, "High Ya!", begins with an answering machine message from Matt Lukin
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of Mudhoney
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informing Eddie Spaghetti of his intended whereabouts the following night and intimating that he will be "holding".
*The final listed track, "The Schmooze", consists of an answering machine message from Sub Pop
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producer Jack Endino
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for Eddie Spaghetti in which the former tries to convince the latter to put him on the guest list for an upcoming show that Supersuckers are playing with Mudhoney.
*A final unlisted track contains the entire album, a second time.
References
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Albums produced by Conrad Uno