Creature (album)
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Creature is the second studio album by Canadian alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Moist, released in 1996. It featured the singles "Leave it Alone", "Resurrection", "Tangerine", and "Gasoline".

Track listing

All songs written by Moist.
  1. "Hate"-3:47
  2. "Theme from Cola"-2:37
  3. "Resurrection"-3:58
  4. "Leave it Alone"-4:24
  5. "Creature"-4:18
  6. "Shotgun"-3:01
  7. "Disco Days"-2:32
  8. "Tangerine"-4:02
  9. "Better Than You"-3:55
  10. "Baby Skin Tattoo"-4:53
  11. "Ophelia"-3:49
  12. "Gasoline"-3:13

Trivia

  • "Ophelia" is featured on MuchMusic's Big Shiny Tunes
    Big Shiny Tunes
    Big Shiny Tunes is a series of rock albums featuring Various Artists compiled and released by the Canadian music television station MuchMusic, beginning in 1996. The best-selling album of the series was Big Shiny Tunes 2, which was certified Diamond in Canada by the CRIA on March 25, 1998...

     released in 1996.
  • "Tangerine" won two MMVAs (MuchMusic Video Awards
    MuchMusic Video Awards
    The MuchMusic Video Awards are annual awards presented by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic to honour the year's best music videos....

    ) for Best Director, and Best Video in 1997.

Credits

  • David Usher
    David Usher
    David Usher is a British-born Canadian singer-songwriter. Formerly the frontman for the alternative rock band Moist, he embarked on a solo career beginning in the late 1990s.-Biography:...

     – vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Mark Makoway – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s
  • Kevin Young – keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    s
  • Jeff Pearce – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Paul Wilcox – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Matt Watkins
    Matt Watkins
    Matt Watkins is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for the Portland Pirates in the American Hockey League . He was selected by the Dallas Stars in the 5th round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.Watkins signed a one-year contract with the Phoenix Coyotes on July 6,...

     – trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

     on "Creature"
  • Claude Lamothe – cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

    on "Tangerine"
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