Positraction
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Positraction was the last album released by New York band Live Skull
. It was released by Caroline Records
in 1988.
Bonus Tracks:
Live Skull
-Overview:Live Skull created abrasive no wave music not unlike their 1980s contemporaries Sonic Youth, Swans, Rat at Rat R, The Chameleons, Mars, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Band of Susans. Their music featured angular guitar parts interspersed with bleak, quieter passages, for a haunting...
. It was released by Caroline Records
Caroline Records
Caroline Records started out as a subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Records label during the early to mid 1970s. The label originally specialized in putting out budget price LPs by mainly progressive rock and jazz artists generally not considered to have a great deal of 'mainstream' or...
in 1988.
Track listing
All songs written by Live Skull, unless otherwise noted.- "Circular Saw" 2:06
- "Richie's House" 3:39
- "Mr. Groove" 2:02
- "Hit & Sink" 2:49
- "Demon Rail" 3:11 *lyrics by Berlin/Zedek
- "Sunday Afternoon Whiteout" 2:32
- "Disengaged" 2:28
- "Amputease" 3:33
- "Safe From Me" 2:57
- "Caleb" 6:58
Bonus Tracks:
- "Paul Revere's Bush (Tree Girl)" 2:07*
- "Was" 2:22**
- "Face" 3:08**
- "Chair" 4:29**
- "Step" 3:08**
- "Word" 2:33**
- "Straw" 3:15**
- compilation track
- from Snuffer EP
Personnel
- Tom Paine - guitar
- Mark C. - guitar
- Sonda Anderson - bass
- Richard Hutchins - drums
- Thalia ZedekThalia ZedekThalia Zedek is an American singer and guitarist. Active since the early 1980s, she has been a member of several notable alternative rock groups, including Live Skull and Come...
- vocals,lyrics - Martin Bisi - producer, engineer
- Live Skull - producer
- Michael Lavine - photos