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The Acid Elephant

1995 EP by Acrimony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2022
Entity authorityQ85806323 ↗
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The Acid Elephant is an EP from the Welsh stoner rock/doom band Acrimony. It was released in 1995 on Godhead Recordings. It contains four songs, two of which were on their previous album Hymns to the Stone and two of which would be re-recorded for their next album Tumuli Shroomaroom. "Spaced Cat #7" is a remix of "Spaced Cat #6" with the addition of a Hammond organ and the sound of someone smoking a bong.

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All music written by Stuart O'Hara, Darren Ivey, Lee Davies and Paul Bidmead; all lyrics written by Dorian Walters.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Acid, Elephant and Acrimony is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Acid Elephant” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.