Scars From Falling Down

Steel Pole Bathtub | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001FII
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,363 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 500 Club

2. Population

3. Home Is a Rope

4. The Conversation

5. Twist

6. Every Thing

7. 3 of Cups

8. Four Barrels

9. Decline

10. Kansas City

11. Friday

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars A classic, August 20, 2010

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Chicago Chuck (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scars From Falling Down (Audio CD)

This is one of those records I play when I want to turn my rock pals into metal fans, metal fans into rock fans and everyone else that likes great music. I have listened to this record more times than I can count. There's a few clunker tunes that I invariably skip - but the scorchers are top rate. So many awesome components to this band: great noise, great art, great tones, huge balls in general, great riffs, vocalists work well together tonally. There are some CRUSHING tunes on this release and the closer is a classic outro of great dirty rock. Fans of the Grifters have to own this. I do not agree that Tuplip and Some Coctail Suggestions are better. This is their best IMO and the fact that they never really took off is a shame. Rarely do people hear this and not request a copy. I can easily dismiss the less interesting tunes because the peaks are so awesome. This is one of the best rock records of the 90s. The art alone is worth the purchase price IMO.

5.0 out of 5 stars More Polished Doesn't Mean Not As Good, January 21, 2010

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Rock Criminal (Marquette, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scars From Falling Down (Audio CD)

On this, their major label debut, old fans complained about the lack of samples, and noise. Sure, that's true. and it does make for a different listening experience. But it does not "rock" any less, it would still be considered "difficult" by most pedestrian rock fans. The riffs are huge like the grand canyon, the beats are in your face; complicated and yet "swing-able" It's been over ten years since this came out, and it's still the Steel Pole I have in the car. I keep this at the ready alongside Motorhead's No Remorse, The Jesus Lizard's Goat, Laughing Hyenas' Life Of Crime, and Devo's New Traditionalists.
A forgotten gem from a great era.

5.0 out of 5 stars my personal favorite Steel Pole Bathtub album, October 5, 2001

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Carolyn Reyes "kekone" (Chicago, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scars from Falling Down [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

I've heard it called "accessable" but in this case don't let that fool you, it's not too slick or anything, it's just that all the songs are of a certain quality - high. Nice mid-tempo beats, simple melodies richly played, brilliant lyrics comming from a place of grim determination to wring pleasure from a doomed situation, and sharp insight into where life's caches of beauty hide, beneath the typically hideousness of modern life. The production is excellent and shows alot of care and skill in both songcraft and recording/mixing, each song has a distinct sound, artful but never artsy fartsy. Almost too lusciously crafted to call pop-punk. They played on my birthday, the last good show I ever saw at the Cabaret Metro, they covered Devo's "gut feeling" - it was so gorgeous I started to cry - thank satan for the smokemachine which obscured my extreme girlyness from my peers. This one's as good as anything on Slash.