Babyteeth (Therapy? album)
album by Therapy?
Babyteeth is the first mini-album by the Northern Irish rock band Therapy?, released on 15 July 1991 on Wiiija Records. Tracks 1 and 3 were recorded in January 1990, with the remaining tracks recorded over a two day period in December that year, all at Homestead Studio in Randalstown, Northern Ireland.
The album reached number 1 in both the UK and Irish Indie Charts.
Release
The EP was first released by Wiiija on 12" vinyl. In 1993, Southern Records re-issued the album on 12" vinyl, limited edition red 12" vinyl, CD and Cassette. "Meat Abstract" was released on the band's own Multifuckingnational label as a 7" vinyl in July 1990. Promo videos were made for the tracks "Meat Abstract" and "Innocent X". Both were shot as part of Fyfe and some friends' media course on hi-8 film. The mini-album was collected, together with Pleasure Death, as the compilation Caucasian Psychosis in 1992.
Samples
The sample in "Meat Abstract" ("Wake up, time to die") is taken from the 1982 movie Blade Runner and is spoken by actor Brion James.
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