Destroy All Human Life

Destroy All Human Life
Studio album by
Country Teasers
ReleasedFebruary 23, 1999
RecordedAugust 19–21, 1998
GenrePost-punk
Length45:09
LabelFat Possum Records[1]
Country Teasers chronology
Back to the Future, or Brideshead Revisitted Revisitted
(1998) 		Destroy All Human Life
(1999) 		Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Stranger[3]

Destroy All Human Life is a studio album by Country Teasers.[4][5][6] It was recorded by Fred Baggs.

Critical reception

Exclaim! wrote that the album "rides the fine line between melancholy and mediocrity."[1] SF Weekly wrote that Country Teasers' "smirking delivery reveals the lyrics to be an indiscriminate jest."[7] The Dallas Observer wrote that Destroy All Human Life "turns down the flailing energy for a much more subdued murk owing more to mid-fi Royal Trux-y rambling than anything else."[8]

Track listing

All songs written by B.R. Wallers except where noted

Side one

  1. "Reynard the Fox" – 5:10
  2. "Golden Apples" – 3:28
  3. "David I Hope You Don't Mind" – 5:07
  4. "Hairy Wine" – 3:30
  5. "Deliverance from Misrule" (Trad. Arr. Country Teasers) – 2:22
  6. "Almost Persuaded" (Billy Sherrill/Glenn Sutton) – 3:34

Side two

  1. "Go Away from My Window" (Trad. Arr. Country Teasers) – 4:43
  2. "Brown Jews Etc" – 4:07
  3. "Women and Children First" – 4:22
  4. "Come Back Maggy" – 3:13
  5. "Song of the White Feather Club Secretary" – 5:33

Personnel

  • B. R. Wallers — Singing & Guitar, Percussion (5)
  • S. W. Stephens — Bass
  • A. J. R. MacKinven — Slide & Rhythm Guitar, Charm Pet (1)
  • L. Worthington — The Drums, Lead Guitar (5,10)

References

  1. ^ a b "Country Teasers Destroy All Human Life". exclaim.ca.
  2. ^ Destroy All Human Life at AllMusic
  3. ^ "CD Review Revue". The Stranger.
  4. ^ "Country Teasers | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ^ "The Quietus | Features | Strange World Of... | To The Future Or To The Past: The Strange World Of… The Rebel". The Quietus.
  6. ^ Kendrick, Monica (8 March 2001). "Country Teasers". Chicago Reader.
  7. ^ "Reviews". SF Weekly. 10 March 1999.
  8. ^ Gross, Joe (19 August 1999). "The Country Teasers". Dallas Observer.