According to GG's frequent collaborator Mark Sheehan, they recorded "The Suicide Sessions" at his grandmother's house on East Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA. August–September, 1988. Sheehan said, "she loved to visit us while we've recorded this songs and really got interested in GG's persona and his dark humorous lyrics. He was pretty nice with her."
Allin later recalled: “The days were hot and nasty. I woke up in a pool of my own piss, sweating and stinking in my room in some seedy dive in Manchester, NH. Body odor, booze and death were always in the surrounding air. Tracy ´[his girl friend] was in intensive care because of a suicide attempt...so was Jo Ann... For me death was around every corner. I went looking for it at any cost. Mark came by to pick me up one day to go to Lowell, Mass to record. What came out of these recordings were the Suicide Sessions... But on this tape you will hear the first blood of the recordings. The ones that never made the tape...or were rejected I'm not sure... So for hours Mark and I bashed and bled our very souls in a sweaty attack as I poured my interiors into every fucking breath. This is the outcome..."[4]
At Allin's funeral in 1993, his brother Merle put a pair of headphones onto Allin's head, hooked to a portable cassette player which was playing this album.[5]
Track listing
Although listed in the track listing, the song "Kiss Me in the Gutter" does not appear on this album. It would later be released first as a B-Side to "No Room" (both songs rejects from this album) and later as its own single.[6]
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Dagger in My Heart"
3:05
2.
"Shit on My Prick"
2:37
3.
"Cornhole Lust"
2:33
4.
"Spread Your Legs, Part Your Lips"
2:57
5.
"I Live to be Hated"
2:08
6.
"Stick a Cross Up a Nun's Cunt"
3:06
7.
"Jailed Again"
6:53
8.
"I Want to Burn"
1:17
9.
"Lilian Phone Fucker"
2:03
10.
"Pain & Suffering"
5:33
11.
"Troubled Troubador of Tomorrow"
2:26
12.
"Liquor Slicked Highway"
2:28
13.
"Can't Afford the Bail"
2:11
14.
"Drug Whore"
2:57
15.
"I Will Not Act Civilized"
1:34
16.
"I'm Dying, I'm Dying, I'm Dead"
1:25
Personnel
GG Allin – vocals (credited as "vocals, drugs, and abuse")