One Thousand Smiling Knuckles

Skin Yard | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 6, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cruz Records
• ASIN: B000008KSE
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,998 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 1000 Smiling Knuckles

2. River Throat

3. Words On Bone

4. Living Pool

5. Headswill

6. Psychoriflepowerhypnotized

7. Material Freak

8. Jezechrist

9. Nietzsche With A Pizza

10. Burn A Hole

Editorial Reviews

1,000 Smiling Knuckles (Audio CD) by Skin Yard - 10 Tracks : 1. 1000 Smiling Knuckles, 2. River Throat, 3. Words on Bone, 4. Living Pool, 5. Headswill, 6. Psychoriflepowerhypnotized, 7. Material Freak, 8. Jezechrist, 9. Nietzsche With a Pizza, 10. Burn a Hole

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid Grunge, April 28, 2005

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Bill McCambridge "Coin-a-sewer of fine music ... (Mondovi, WI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Thousand Smiling Knuckles (Audio CD)

This is a solid grunge recording by Jack Endino and company that is obviously overlooked. Hard to describe their sound. Kind of like Soundgarden, Melvins, and Black Sabbath put in a blender. But a little quicker. Standouts include "Words on Bone," "Psychoriflepowerhypnotized," and "Material Freak."

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Yes, June 9, 2005

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Luca Mirabile "Grootveld" (Bologna,Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Thousand Smiling Knuckles (Audio CD)

I'm agree with the revieuw downstairs.The following work by them,Inside The Eye,is even better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SKIN YARD at their best, September 18, 2009

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A E T (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Thousand Smiling Knuckles (Audio CD)

Sub-genre names are (in my opinion) for people that have a lame idea to be part of something "unique" and different, even though there's plenty of other people at the party. "GRUNGE" is one such term. I couldn't stand it then and it practically makes me puke to hear it now. It demeans and undermines the music and pigeonholes it so that kids can feel cool.

Skin Yard was a great rock and roll band. Period. This is their finest hour. "Knuckles" is their sound culminating with flawless performances and mega-guitarist Jack Endino's evolving studio brilliance. This album blew my mind when it was released because it had more SOUL than a lot of SubPop poop. These guys understood songwriting, rhythm and Ben's voice is probably one of the most defining out of that whole period. I hadn't heard it since I played my old cassette close to 10 years ago and just got it loaded to the iPod via this disc. I can't recommend it enough. It's simply great rock and roll. Buy it.