La Mano Cornuda

La Mano Cornuda
Studio album by
Supersuckers
ReleasedMarch 15, 1994
RecordedEgg Studios, Seattle, Washington in November 1993
GenreRock
LabelSub Pop[1]
ProducerConrad Uno[2]
Supersuckers chronology
The Smoke of Hell
(1992) 		La Mano Cornuda
(1994) 		The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]

La Mano Cornuda is the second studio album by the American rock and roll band Supersuckers.[5][6] It was released on March 1, 1994 on Sub Pop. The title is Spanish for the horned hand, a reference to the hand sign often seen at rock and roll shows.[7]

Critical reception

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music deemed the album "hard rocking songs about hard drinking hard men."[4] Trouser Press wrote that "Conrad Uno’s production doesn’t raise [Jack] Endino’s blinding gleam, but the effect is salutary, allowing the band to indulge its naturally wanton slop-rock instincts to great hairy effect."[2] Eric Davidson, author of We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001, considered it perhaps the band's "best all-around record."[8]

Track listing

  1. "Creepy Jackalope Eye"
  2. "Seventeen Poles"
  3. "High Ya!"
  4. "On the Couch"
  5. "Clueless
  6. "Sugie"
  7. "Mudhead"
  8. "Gold Top"
  9. "How to Maximize Your Kill Count"
  10. "I Was Born Without a Spine"
  11. "Glad Damn Glad"
  12. "She's My Bitch"
  13. "The Schmooze"

Notes

  • The third track, "High Ya!", begins with an answering machine message from Matt Lukin of Mudhoney 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 producer Jack Endino 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

  1. ^ "La Mano Cornuda". Sub Pop Records.
  2. ^ a b "Supersuckers". Trouser Press. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  3. ^ "La Mano Cornuda - Supersuckers | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 857.
  5. ^ "Supersuckers | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ^ "The Raw Essence". Los Angeles Times. February 22, 1996.
  7. ^ Chris, Gray. "Supersuckers". Riverfront Times.
  8. ^ Davidson, Eric (2010). We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001. Backbeat Books.