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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (Chris Mars album)

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Released
  
1992

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (1992)
  
75% Less Fat (1993)

Release date
  
1992

Length
  
47:37

Artist
  
Chris Mars

Label
  
Smash Records

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Producer
  
Chris Mars & Tom Herbers

Similar
  
75% Less Fat, Tenterhooks, All Shook Down

Chris mars monkey sees from horseshoes and hand grenades 1992


Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is the 1992 debut solo album by Chris Mars.

Contents

The album contains the hit song "Popular Creeps," which denounces snooty high school cliques. Most songs seem to cover break-ups, mental illness, homelessness as a trend, alienation, and apparently the rest of his former band, The Replacements.

The track, "Better Days", is about being sick at home from school and experiencing hallucinations from tainted cold medicine.

Though Mars performs primarily as a one-man band, J.D. Foster plays the bass guitar. Songs such as "Monkey Sees", "Before It Began" and "City Lights on Mars" are backed by Dan Murphy and David Pirner from Soul Asylum.

Track listing

  1. Reverse Status (3:12)
  2. Popular Creeps (3:04)
  3. Outer Limits (3:17)
  4. Before it Began (3:51)
  5. Get Out of My Life (3:17)
  6. Monkey Sees (3:55)
  7. Ego Maniac (2:34)
  8. Midnight Carnival (4:17)
  9. I, Me, We, Us, Them (3:43)
  10. Don't You See It (3:51)
  11. Happy Disconnections (3:11)
  12. Better Days (3:03)
  13. City Lights on Mars (2:49)
  14. Last Drop (3:33)

Songs

1Reverse Status3:13
2Popular Creeps3:05
3Outer Limits3:20

References

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (Chris Mars album) Wikipedia