VERUCA SALT DISCOGRAPHY & VIDEOS

1.American Thighs (1994); 2.Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt - EP (1996); 3.Eight Arms to Hold You (1997); 4.Resolver (2000); 5.Officially Dead - EP (2003); 6.Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things - EP (2005); 7.IV (2006) 

American Thighs

Released November 8, 1994, Length 52:24, Label Minty Fresh/DGC 

1.Get Back 3:12
2.All Hail Me  3:05

3.Seether  3:16

4.Spiderman '79  5:16

5.Forsythia  4:45

6.Wolf  4:19

7.Celebrate You   4:20

8.Fly   3:38

9.Number One Blind  3:43

10.Victrola  2:19

11.Twinstar  3:16

12. 25  7:56

13.Sleeping Where I Want  3:19 (CD version only)

American Thighs is the first album by alternative rock band Veruca Salt. It was released through Minty Fresh Records on September 27, 1994, and re-released through DGC Records on November 8, 1994 (see 1994 in music). The title is a reference to a line from the AC/DC song "You Shook Me All Night Long". The songs and artwork are the same on both versions, but the DGC artwork is on glossy paper. 



Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
Released April 16, 1996, Length 19:08, Label DGC/Minty Fresh

1. Shimmer Like A Girl 4:03
2. I'm Taking Europe With Me 3:45

3. New York Mining Disaster 1996 4:56

4. Disinherit 6:25

Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt  is an EP by Veruca Salt released in 1996. It followed the band's hit album American Thighs (1994). The EP contains four songs, two by Nina Gordon and two by Louise Post.

The album art shows the band dressed in toilet paper. In the liner notes, bass guitarist Steve Lack is credited as Stephen J. Lackawicz.

The EP is now out of print.

Eight Arms to Hold You

Released February 11, 1997, Length 51:10, Label Outpost/Geffen

1.Straight 2:32

2.Volcano Girls 3:18

3.Don't Make Me Prove It 2:29

4.Awesome 3:32

5.One Last Time 4:45

6.With David Bowie 2:25

7.Benjamin 4:05

8.Shutterbug 4:16

9.The Morning Sad 3:08

10.Sound of the Bell 3:59

11.Loneliness Is Worse 5:00

12.Stoneface  2:44

13.Venus Man Trap 3:29

14.Earthcrosser 5:28

Eight Arms to Hold You is an album by alternative rock band Veruca Salt. The album was released through Outpost/Geffen on February 11, 1997. This is the last album to feature original band members Nina Gordon, Steve Lack, and Jim Shapiro.

The title of the album is a reference to the working title for The Beatles' film eventually titled Help!.

Songs

Shutterbug

"Shutterbug", a song from this album, was written by Louise Post. She was the lead singer for the song, with Nina Gordon performing backing vocals.

Post has said that the three parts of the song are like snapshots from different times in her life. The "she" featured in the song is PJ Harvey.

Veruca Salt performed "Shutterbug" on Saturday Night Live. Because Sting was hosting the show that evening, he performed one of his solo songs instead of Veruca Salt performing a second song.

Resolver

Released May 16, 2000, Length 47:56, Label Beyond

1.The Same Person 1:03

2.Born Entertainer 2:40

3.Best You Can Get 2:45

4.Wet Suit 4:23

5.Yeah Man 3:31

6.Imperfectly 4:18

7.Officially Dead 2:49

8.Only You Know 4:09

9.Disconnected 4:48

10.All Dressed Up 5:54

11.Used to Know Her 4:36

12.Pretty Boys 3:07

13.Hellraiser 3:53

Resolver is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Veruca Salt. It was released on May 16, 2000, on Beyond Records followed by an Australian release on December 6, 2002. This album was the first for the band after the departure of founding member Nina Gordon.

Like their previous album, Eight Arms to Hold You, the title is inspired by The Beatles, in this case, a play on the title of their 1966 album Revolver.

Officially Dead

Released July 17, 2003, Length 16:00, Label Embryo Records

1.Officially Dead  2:49

2.Straight Jacket (demo) 3:52

3.Smoke & Mirrors (demo) 3:55

4.The Light Behind Your Eyes 2:03

5.The Same Person (Remix)  3:51

Officially Dead is an EP by the American alternative rock band Veruca Salt, released in 2003 on Embryo.

The single was released in Australia and peaked at #13 on the Triple J top 100

The first pressing of the EP contained many errors. For instance, track #3 is actually "Blissful Queen" rather than the listed "Smoke & Mirrors". Louise Post's friend Summer was not credited for the tattoo on the cover until the second pressing.

Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things

Released October 2005, Length 20:01, Label Velveteen

1.Save You 4:27

2.Blood On My Hands 3:30

3.The Sun 4:04

4.I Got My Pants On 0:24

5.Firefly 3:28

6.For Days 4:08

Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things is a 2005 EP released independently by the American alternative rock bandVeruca Salt and self-distributed through their Velveteen Records label.

The EP features five new songs and a recording of Richard Patrick of Filter repeatedly yelling "I got my pants on!" Two of the songs (Save You and The Sun) were re-recorded for the band's fourth full-length record, IV. This EP is currently sold by lead singer Louise Post through the band's website.

IV

Released 12 September, 2006, Length 55:17, Label Sympathy for the Record Industry

1.So Weird

2.Centipede

3.Innocent

4.Circular Trend

5.Perfect Love

6.Closer

7.Sick As Your Secrets

8.Wake Up Dead

9.Damage Done

10.Blissful Queen

11.The Sun

12.Comes And Goes

13.Save You

14.Salt Flat Epic

15.Blood On My Hands (Japan Release Only)

16.For Days (Japan Release Only)

IV is the fourth full-length studio album by Veruca Salt. It was released on 12 September 2006 in the USA and on 25 September in Australia.

Veruca Salt *****

Veruca Salt is an alternative rock band founded in 1993 in Chicago, Illinois. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included vocalist-guitarist Louise Post. Guitarist Stephen Fitzpatrick has been with the band since 1999 and drummer Kellii Scott has worked with the group on and off since 1999. Bassist Nicole Fiorentino has been with the band since 2006.

 

 

Biography

1993 - 1998: formation and growth

Named after Veruca Salt, the spoiled rich girl from the children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Veruca Salt was formed in Chicago by Louise PostNina Gordon (guitar/vocals). Post and Gordon were introduced through mutual friend Lili Taylor, and began playing music together. They wrote songs for a year and a half before being joined by Gordon's brother, Jim Shapiro, on drums and Steve Lack on bass guitar. 

The band had done a handful of shows when Jim Powers of Minty Fresh Records asked them to sign to the independent label. The band's first release was the single "Seether"/"All Hail Me" on Minty Fresh Records, in 1994. The single was a success and Veruca Salt accompanied Hole on a tour, before releasing their first full-length album, American Thighs, which eventually reached Gold status.

After signing to Geffen Records, the band quickly gained in popularity as "Seether" became an MTV hit. A stop-gap EP recorded by Steve Albini, Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt, was released in 1996.

Veruca Salt's popularity skyrocketed after their second full album, Eight Arms to Hold You, was released in 1997. Produced by Bob Rock, the album generated the hit lead single "Volcano Girls", which gained exposure as the opening theme to the teen comedy film Jawbreaker. 

Veruca Salt performed another single, "Shutterbug", on Saturday Night Live; however, instead of the featured musical group performing two songs as had been tradition, the musical performances were split between Sting and Veruca Salt. Shapiro left the band soon after the release of Eight Arms and was replaced by Stacy Jones (of Letters to Cleo and now American Hi-Fi). Jones toured with the band on the Eight Arms tour, but never recorded with them.

Songwriting was shared between Gordon and Post, though the two seldom collaborated. Rather, each would typically submit a complete song to the group and sing the lead vocal on that song, while the other would record backing vocals.

In 1996, Veruca Salt appeared as Pavement's replacement band in their video "Painted Soldiers".

1998 - 2005: Gordon's departure, reformation and Resolver

In 1998, Gordon left the band to pursue a solo career (her first album Tonight and the Rest of My Life, was released in 2000). The undisclosed dispute between Gordon and Post has been described as "one of the greatest rock soap operas since Fleetwood Mac or Hüsker Dü."

Post, now the only original band member, recruited a new band, consisting of Stephen Fitzpatrick (guitar), Suzanne Sokol (bass guitar) and Jimmy Madla (drums), and continued to record and perform under the Veruca Salt name. The new band signed with Beyond Records. The first album with the new lineup was 2000's Resolver.

Suzanne Sokol left the band at the end of 2000. Post's friend, Gina Crosley, took her place. The new line-up toured in summer 2001, and spent time promoting Resolver in the UK. Crosley and Post then moved to Los Angeles, where they lived together and wrote songs that appeared on the Officially Dead EP. Crosley is credited with co-writing "Smoke & Mirrors", but left the band before the record was released. She also worked on songs that later appeared on IV, but no credit is officially given.

In December 2002, both Resolver and its lead single "Born Entertainer" were released, in Australia through Embryo Records/MGM. Following the release of "Born Entertainer", the label released the single "Officially Dead", which contained newly recorded tracks as well as a remix of "The Same Person".

2005 - Present: VSIV

In 2005, the band went through another line-up change with Crosley and Madla leaving, replaced by Solomon Snyder on bass guitar and Michael Miley on drums for the recording of the EP Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things (LOSALT). The band went on tour as Post, Fitzpatrick, drummer Kellii Scott, and bass guitarist Nicole Fiorentino. Nicole Fiorentino currently plays bass with the Smashing Pumpkins. LOSALT was released and sold independently at the band's shows and via the website and included six new songs. 
The title of the EP is an extract from Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. This preceded the full-length album, IV, released in September 2006, accompanied by a U.S. tour. IV failed to chart in the US. The lead single, "So Weird", was released to radio at the end of October 2006; however, a video was never produced and the single failed to receive any significant radio play.

In 2007, the band recorded a cover of Neil Young's song "Burned" for a 2007 Breast Cancer Benefit album.