Released 30th August 1993 Length 49:21 Release date 30 August 1993 Label Warner Music UK | Recorded 1993 Artist The Wildhearts Producer The Wildhearts Genre Rock music | |
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Earth vs the Wildhearts is the debut studio album by British rock band The Wildhearts, released in 1993. The title is based on such B-movie titles as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and Earth vs. the Spider.
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Billy Morrison, of Camp Freddy and Circus Diablo, states that Earth vs the Wildhearts is one of his favourite albums of all time. Earth vs the Wildhearts was voted the number #1 album of 1993 by Kerrang! magazine in their yearly poll. In 2006, Kerrang rated it #20 in a special publication of the best Rock Albums. The album has been reissued twice: first in 1994 with the addition of the formerly single-only track "Caffeine Bomb", and again in 2010 with several B-sides from the period.
On the 20th anniversary of the album's release, in 2013, the Wildhearts reformed for a tour in which the original version of the album was played in its entirely nightly, followed by a second set of songs chosen by the audience.
Earth vs the wildhearts live the second leg june 2013
Track listing
All songs written by ginger.
Personnel
with the following additional musicians:
Mick Ronson contributed one of the three guitar solos on "My Baby is a Headfuck." This is believed to be Ronson's final appearance on record before his death on 29 April 1993.
Songs
1Greetings From Shitsville4:31
2TV Tan4:30
3Everlone6:31