Veruca Salt: American Thighs CD contains 13 tracks and runs 52.5 minutes.

Veruca Salt was one of the greatest rock soap operas since Fleetwood Mack or Husker Du, as longtime friends Louise Post and Nina Gordon had a bitter falling out over stolen boyfriends, stabbed backs, and general unpleasantness. Gordon set out on a solo career, while Post dug in her heels, retained the Veruca Salt name, assembled a new band, and recorded the third Veruca album, 2000's Resolver. The friendship with Gordon wasn't the only severed relationship Post endured between 1997's Eight Arms to Hold You and Resolver -- She also broke up with Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl. Now, the title of the record may suggest that she's trying to resolve her feelings toward these breakups, but the album plays as relentless, unmitigated stream of bile. Never once does Post let up her attack on Gordon and Grohl, except for when it loses a little focus and becomes a vicious attack on the world in general. All of this is set to music that's halfway between American Thighs and Blow it Out Your Ass and completely dated in 2000. By any conventional yardstick, this does not result in a good album, but it surely is a fascinating listen. There's something unintentionally strange and perverse about the record, like being assaulted by a half-forgotten, half-drunken acquaintance, intent of filling you in on every single excruciating detail of their miserable life -- at top volume, no less.

1994 ARE YOU THERE, 13 SONGS. ORIGINAL 1. Get Back - Veruca Salt, Gordon, Nina Listen 2. All Hail Me - Veruca Salt, Post, Louise Listen 3. Seether - Veruca Salt, Gordon, Nina Listen 4. Spiderman '79 - Veruca Salt, Post, Louise Listen 5. Forsythia - Veruca Salt, Gordon, Nina Listen 6. Wolf - Veruca Salt, Post, Louise Listen 7. Celebrate You - Veruca Salt, Post, Louise Listen 8. Fly - Veruca Salt, Post, Louise Listen 9. Number One Blind - Veruca Salt, Gordon, Nina Listen 10. Victrola - Veruca Salt, Post, Louise Listen 11. Twinstar - Veruca Salt, Gordon, Nina Listen 12. 25 - Veruca Salt, Gordon, Nina Listen 13. Sleeping Where I Want [*] - Veruca Salt, Gordon, Nina

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