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Purgatory Dance Party is the debut album by Polkadot Cadaver

Polkadot Cadaver

Polkadot Cadaver is a band formed by members of the now defunct Baltimore rock band Dog Fashion Disco. The band is stylistically similar to Dog Fashion Disco and inherited many of their fans.-History:...

released via internet pre-sales on November 17, 2007, with a street date of November 27, 2007. The cover art is a reference to the John Travolta

John Travolta

John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, dancer and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease...

film Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...

. Dog Fashion Disco

Dog Fashion Disco

Dog Fashion Disco was an experimental metal band, from Rockville, Maryland, that was active from 1996 to 2007.- Biography :Combining many different music styles Dog Fashion Disco was primarily considered an avant-garde metal band...

had earlier covered the theme tune to another Travolta film (Grease
Grease (film)
Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...

).

Track listing

"Haunted Holiday" – 2:01
"A Wolf in Jesus Skin" – 3:50
"Purgatory Dance Party" – 4:08
"Deathwish" – 3:35
"Phantom Limb" – 3:18
"Long Strange Trip to Paradise" – 2:35
"Bring me the Head of Andy Warhol" – 3:26
"Chloroform Girl" – 2:56
"What's the Worst Thing That Could Happen?" – 4:32
"Brainwash" – 3:53
"Pure Bedlam for Halfbreeds" – 3:04
"Sole Survivor" – 32:36

All songs written by Polkadot Cadaver

Polkadot Cadaver

. The song "Sole Survivor" is in fact only 4:30 long; the track then contains 5 minutes of silence, and from 9:30 onwards it consists of a looped voice saying the word "Satan

Satan

Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...

Personnel

Todd Smith – Vocals, Guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

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

, Keyboards
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...

, Producer
Jasan Stepp – Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed drums
Programming (music)
Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, often sequencers or computer programs, to generate music. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock...

, 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...

, Bass, Producer
John Ensminger – 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 ....

Additional Personnel

Matt Rippetoe – Saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
Drew Lamonde – Producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, Recording
Steve Wright – Mixing
Audio mixing (recorded music)
In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

, Mastering
Audio mastering
Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
John Kolbeck – Cover art
Shane Tuttle – Graphic design, Logo
Dan Edwards – Polkadot Cadaver Logo
James Wright – Publicity
Jeff Cohen – Legal
Adam Mandell – Legal
T.J. Barber – Additional art
Souleh – Additional art

External links

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