Greatest Gift

Scratch Acid | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 3, 1994)
• Original Release Date: October 25, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Touch & Go Records
• ASIN: B0000019IA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,237 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cannibal

2. Greatest Gift

3. Monsters

4. Owner's Lament

5. She Said

6. Mess

7. El Espectro

8. Lay Screaming

9. Crazy Dan

10. Eyeball

11. Big Bone Lick

12. Unlike a Baptist

13. Damned for All Time

14. Ain't That Love?

15. Holes

16. Albino Slug

17. Split a Kiss

18. Amicus

19. Cheese Plug

20. Mary Had a Little Drug Problem

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Top-notch Texas post-punk grind-jazz-prog-noise-core, April 13, 2005

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Paul J. Escamilla "sentient being" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Gift (Audio CD)

Ahh....Scratch Acid...the little band from Texas that could...could what?...could take the obvious influence of Nick Cave's Birthday Party and make it something their own...something that made me proud to be from Texas.

Lurching, rolling, stumbling caterwauling. Propulsive grinding and yowling. Anguished ennui left out to bake too long in the blistering Texas sun.

There is an awful beauty here. There is the sense that one has entered fully and irrevocably into the mind and soul of an LSD-shattered maniac. A rabid killer out on the roads of Amerikkka. A bowl of rancid guacamole. A blister oozing. A tidal wave of viscous, throbbing yeehaw.

David Yow channelled Nick Cave on the top. Underneath was the music, a technically savvy but unabashedly raw and vicious beast.

Twenty years later, Scratch Acid still makes me proud to be a Texan.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real American Folk Music, August 30, 2005

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B. Hogan (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Greatest Gift (Audio CD)

If you know who Scratch Acid is, then you shouldn't need any encouragement to buy this - it's basically all of their music on one cd. If You DON'T know who they are, they were one of the first post-punk American bands (along with Flipper, Big Black, Minutemen etc.). It's a bunch of kids with nothing much to look forward to, and an uncanny gift for giving chaos a good beat that you can dance to, sometimes. There're a lot of bourgeois young people who think that playing an acoustic guitar and singing about Joni Mitchell's feelings is "authentic". I wouldn't know about that; I just know that no one asked these kids to make music, or offered them any money (at first), but they did it anyway.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scratch Acid/Strychnine/Rabid Cat, April 22, 2000

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Lynn J. Madison "Wayward in Maine" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Gift (Audio CD)

If you are a fan of early Teenage Jesus and the Jerks or the Birthday Party you must own this one. There was a time when this was the ONLY platter I could stop playing the BDay Party for. Highly recommended. Some of you young uns who think punk is Green Day are in for a very obnoxious awakening. (Strychnine was the original name of the album, Rabid Cat was the label)