Released 2002 | Release date 2002 Label Fading Captain Series | |
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The Harold Pig Memorial is the second studio album by Ohio alternative rock band Circus Devils, released in 2002. Conceived as a concept album, each song depicts an episode in the life of biker Harold Pig as told by Harold's friends at his wake.
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Reaction
"the album has an epic sweep to it which makes it feel like a journey. While the nonsequitors and genuinely creepy stretches make Circus Devils' music likely too odd for your average music fan, this isn't a hapless "side project" but an intricate, intoxicating epic showcasing a unique, hybrid form of rock."
- Dave Heaton / Erasing Clouds
"(Robert) Pollard's patented vocal hooks are sprinkled throughout and vicious guitar solos add to the Devils' sweeping sense of barely controlled chaos. The tone of the album remains dark and is again done on a grand soundtrack scale, but whereas Ringworm Interiors had a menacing, unsettling, perhaps David Lynchian feel, The Harold Pig Memorial has a more unifying, often suitably funereal (but still unsettling), musical theme woven throughout."
- Karen E. Graves / allmusic.com
Track listing
- Alaska to Burning Men
- Saved Herself, Shaved Herself
- Soldiers of June
- I Guess I Needed That
- Festival of Death
- Dirty World News
- May We See the Hostage
- Do You Feel Legal?
- A Birdcage Until Further Notice
- Injured?
- Foxhead Delivery
- Last Punk Standing
- Bull Spears
- Discussions in the Cave
- Recirculating Hearse
- Pigs Can't Hide (On Their Day Off)
- Exoskeleton Motorcade
- Real Trip No.3
- Vegas
- The Pilot's Crucifixion / Indian Oil
- Tulip Review
- The Harold Pig Memorial
Songs
1Alaska to Burning Men2:37
2Saved Herself - Shaved Herself2:43
3Soldiers of June1:38