Track Listing

1. Cannibal
2. Greatest Gift
3. Monsters
4. Owner's Lament
5. She Said
6. Mess
7. 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. Unititled
16. Holes
17. Albino Slug
18. Split a Kiss
19. Amicus
20. Cheese Plug
21. Mary Had a Little Drug Problem
22. Mary Had a Little Drug Problem
23. For Crying out Loud
24. Moron's Moron
25. Skin Drips
26. This Is Bliss
27. Flying Houses
28. Scale Song

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48471 in Music
• Released on: 1994-02-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

AN UNKNOWN PLEASURE...
Here it is...Scratch Acid's entire discography on one CD... Superb!!! Scratch Acid are indeed one of life's little known pleasures and the presence of "Mary Had A Little Drug Problem" is well worth the price tag alone... That's not to mention the scream drenched vocal assault of "Cannibal" or the Beautifully orchestrated "Owner's Lament". The songs on this album show us all what US guitar music in the 80's could have been like. Admittedly, this kind of music was (and never will be) aimed at the masses. It will only speak to the people who seek the hidden pleasures in life. Just like The Birthday Party, Big Black or the not-so-hidden-these-days Pixies, Scratch Acid will indeed have played a very important role in the shaping of any looming Underground/Alternative music scene of the new millennium.

I AGREE TOTALLY!
I agree totally with the other guy,scratch acid were one of life's unknown pleasure's,and will remain to be,but i think that suited them totally,i mean if they were like some huge band with no 1's in every counrty and stuff,they would have been a diffrent band,but well they wasnt thank god!
i bought this album from amazon,along with a melvins album,but i didnt give the melvins album a look in for a few day's,cause i was to busy getting my head around scratch acid,the album is so dark even on the heavy songs,like the beautiful 'OWNERS LAMENT' untill the haunting scream's of 'CANNIBAL' this album must not be forgotten as did it pave the way for other noise/underground bands,and has big insipation on me and my band,how can a band so small and unknown be so damn good? well this band was,and will continue to echo the howl's of 'GREATEST GIFT' !!!

wow
Scratch Acid is one of those bands that really don't fit (thankfully) into any real "style" of music. The songs here are violent, noisey, and quite wild, and the bizarre screams and yowls of Divid Yow are so crazy and absurdly performed that its very hard to understand them unless on certain mind expanding substances (substances the band was very into).
Yes, the band that distributed 40 hits of acid amongst their audience has compiled all 28 songs about dark and stormy nights into one great album.
"Ya know the way it happens when ya ride in the night & it's cold & dark & rainy
and you look up at the moon's balls & it invents ghosts for you to scream with
you play with the wheel until you get the feel of just how real
it might've been if you turned back but now it's far too late"
Musically, the only thing to compare this to is Yow's later band, the more popular Jesus Lizard, yet somehow that band never captured the nightmarish, surreal insanity that Scratch Acid does. The music here is also much tighter and organized. The drum and bass really play perfectly together and create original intro's for great songs like She Said and Amicus. Everyone in this band played so amazing well with one another it sad we don't have more music from this band.
In short, many bands try to sound disturbing and violent, but VERY few succeed. Scratch Acid is one the bands that did. If that's what you're into this band will not disappoint.