Reception

Track listing

1. "I Fall to Pieces" – 0:47
2. "Yo! I Killed Your God" – 2:58
3. "Human Sacrifice" – 10:03
4. "The Wind Cries Mary" (Jimi Hendrix
   Jimi Hendrix
   James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
   
   ) – 6:36
5. "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise" (Oscar Hammerstein II
   Oscar Hammerstein II
   Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
   
   , Sigmund Romberg
   Sigmund Romberg
   Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
   
   ) – 5:34
6. "Fourth World" – 8:18
7. "Requiem for What’s His Name" – 5:09
8. "Somebody In My House" – 3:10
9. "Clever White Youths with Attitude" – 2:31
10. "Expressionless" – 1:49
11. "Jamon Con Yucca" – 4:12
12. "Pulse" – 8:08
13. "Change Has Come" – 9:07
14. "Mon Petit Punk" – 4:16

Personnel

• Tracks 1–7 were recorded live at CBGB
  CBGB
  CBGB was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and New Wave bands like Ramones, Misfits, Television, the...
  
  , New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   (November 1992).
  • Marc Ribot
    Marc Ribot
    Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...
    
     – 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...
    
    , 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...
    
    
  • Chris Wood
    Chris Wood (jazz musician)
    Christopher Barry Wood is an American bass player, best known for playing with the avant-garde jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood .-Biography:...
    
     – guitar
  • Sebastian Steinberg
    Sebastian Steinberg
    Sebastian Steinberg is an American bass player, best known for his work in the band Soul Coughing.- Biography :Steinberg played with Soul Coughing throughout the band's entire history, from 1992–2000. He also recorded and performed with guitarist Marc Ribot and appeared on William Shatner's 2004...
    
     – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
    
    
  • Dougie Bowne – 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 ....
    
    

• Tracks 8–9 were recorded live at CBGB, New York (December 1992).
  • Marc Ribot – guitar, vocals
  • Roger Kleier
    Roger Kleier
    Roger Kleier is an American composer, guitarist, improviser, and producer.He studied composition at the University of North Texas College of Music and the USC Thornton School of Music. Kleier's compositional work typically develops an expanded vocabulary for the electric guitar through the use of...
    
     – guitar
  • Sebastian Steinberg – bass
  • Jim Pugliese
    Jim Pugliese
    Jim Pugliese is an American percussionist, drummer, composer and international recording artist on over ninety CDs of experimental, jazz and rock music.His performing experience is diverse...
    
     – drums

• Track 10 was recorded live at Rote Fabrik, Zurich
  Zürich
  Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
  
   (1994).
  • Marc Ribot – guitar, vocals
  • JD Foster – guitar
  • Chris Wood – bass
  • Jim Pugliese – drums
  • Christine Bard – drums

• Track 11 was recorded live in Tokyo
  Tokyo
  , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
  
   (1994).
  • Marc Ribot – guitar, vocals
  • JD Foster – guitar
  • Sebastian Steinberg – bass
  • Jim Pugliese – drums
  • Christine Bard – drums

• Tracks 12–13 were recorded live in Nagoya (1994).
  • Marc Ribot – guitar, vocals
  • JD Foster – guitar
  • Sebastian Steinberg – bass
  • Jim Pugliese – drums
  • Christine Bard – drums

• Track 14 was recorded at Low Blood Studio, New York (1994).
  • Marc Ribot – guitar, vocals
  • Mark Anthony Thompson – bass, sequencer
    Music sequencer
    The music sequencer is a device or computer software to record, edit, play back the music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically :...
    
    
  • Francois Lardeau – drum programming
    Drum machine
    A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music...
    
    

Credits

• John Zorn
  John Zorn
  John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
  
   – 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...
  
  
• Marc Ribot – producer
• Kazunori Sugiyama – associate producer
• Mark Anthony Thompson – producer (track 14)
• Allan Tucker – mastering engineer
  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...
  
  
• Shoichi – photographer
• Danny C – photographer
• Bert Detant – photographer
• Ikue Mori
  Ikue Mori
  , also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer.-Biography:Ikue Mori was born and raised in Japan. She says she had little interest in music before hearing punk rock...
  
   – design
  Graphic designer
  A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...