Released 1993 Length 77:53 Artist The God Machine Label Fiction Records | Recorded 1992 Producer The God Machine Release date 1993 | |
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Scenes from the Second Storey
(1993) One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying...
(1994) Genres Rock music, Alternative rock, Progressive rock Alternative rock albums One Last Laugh in a Place of, Enemy of the Sun, Crooked Rain - Crooked, Daydream Nation, Loveless | ||
Scenes from the Second Storey is the debut album by The God Machine released in 1993 by Fiction Records / Polydor. It peaked at #55 in the UK Album Chart.
Contents
The album opens with a sample from the movie adaptation of The Sheltering Sky (the same sample also opens Neurosis' Enemy Of The Sun, an album released in the same year as Scenes from the Second Storey), while the single Home contains an intro consisting of the beginning of the track Pilentze Pee by the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir from the album Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. The single peaked at #65 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1993.
Critical reception
In 2005, Scenes from the Second Storey was ranked number 312 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.
Track listing
Released as CD and double LP. A double CD version including the Home EP was released in the US.
Credits
Influences
In 2010 Morrigan Books will publish an anthology of horror short stories written and titled in the same order as the album track listing, as a homeage to Scenes from the Second Storey. All authors are from Australia and include David Conyers, Stephen Dedman, Paul Haines, Robert Hood, Cat Sparks, Andrew J McKiernan and Kaaron Warren.
Songs
1Dream Machine5:26
2She Said4:42
3The Blind Man5:59