''The Body Has a Head'' is an album by

King Missile King Missile is an American avant-garde art rock band best known for its 1992 single "Detachable Penis". Vocalist John S. Hall has fronted several disparate incarnations of the group since founding it in 1986. History King Missile (Dog Fly Rel ...

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John S. Hall John S. Hall (born John Charles Hall, September 2, 1960) is an American poet, author, singer and lawyer perhaps best known for his work with King Missile, an avant-garde band that he co-founded in 1986 and has since led in various incarnations. ...

, released exclusively in Germany in 1996. Though billed as a Hall "

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," the collection features considerable input from

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s Sasha Forte,

Bradford Reed Bradford Reed is an American multi-instrumentalist, experimental luthier, and member of the avant-garde band King Missile III. In the 1980s he invented the pencilina, a custom made string instrument. Pencilina The pencilina is a custom-made str ...

, and

Jane Scarpantoni Jane Scarpantoni (born 1960)https://www.myheritage.com/names/jane_scarpantoni is a classically trained American cello player who has played on a number of alternative rock albums. She was a member of Hoboken, New Jersey's Tiny Lights in the mid-1 ...

, all of whom would become members of the next incarnation of King Missile ("King Missile III") and contribute to that group's "debut" album, 1998's ''

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'' The Green Album'', sold exclusively at

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, contains all the tracks from ''The Body Has a Head'' plus fourteen live King Missile tracks and an alternate version of the song "Gay/Not Gay" from ''Failure''.

Track listing

All

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by Hall. #"The Bunny Who Wanted to Be a Rat" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 3:08 #"Punish Him" (

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, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 3:06 #"A Good Hard Look" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:16 #*This track appears in a different arrangement on ''Failure.'' #"On the Metro North" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:14 #*This track first appeared on the compilation ''Fast Forward Sampler #2'' under the band name "The Body Has a Head." #"The Friendly Man" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:54 #"Keep Walking" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 3:37 #"My Lover" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:35 #"Wizard" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:03 #"A Little Restraint" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 1:22 #"Clamsauce" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:10 #"Satan" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 3:06 #"Freyne" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:26 #"The Angel" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 1:17 #"Nine Wishes" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 1:09 #"Prophecy" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 3:47

Personnel

*John S. Hall –

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

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 ...

on "The Angel" *Dougie Bowne –

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 ...

on "Punish Him," "On the Metro North," "The Friendly Man," "Keep Walking," "Wizard," "Clamsauce," and "Freyne,"

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

on "Punish Him," guitar on "Punish Him" and "Clamsauce," vibes on "Clamsauce" *Sasha Forte –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

, bass,

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

on "Punish Him," guitar on "The Bunny Who Wanted to Be a Rat," "Punish Him," "On the Metro North," "Clamsauce," and "Prophecy,"

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

on "A Little Restraint," lasso d'amore on "Satan,"

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

on "Nine Wishes," bells on "Prophecy" *Bradford Reed – drums on "Nine Wishes" and "Prophecy,"

pencilina Bradford Reed is an American multi-instrumentalist, experimental luthier, and member of the avant-garde band King Missile III. In the 1980s he invented the pencilina, a custom made string instrument. Pencilina The pencilina is a custom-made str ...

on "Prophecy," bells on "Prophecy" *Jane Scarpantoni –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

, bass on "Punish Him" and "On the Metro North," backing vocals on "Punish Him,"

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

on "The Friendly Man" and "Keep Walking,"

Wurlitzer The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments ...

on "The Friendly Man," synth

bassoon The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuo ...

on "The Friendly Man,"

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on "A Little Restraint," guitar on "Satan,"

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

on "The Angel," bells on "Prophecy" {{DEFAULTSORT:Body Has a Head, The John S. Hall albums 1996 albums