Audio CD review:
Veruca Salt - Eight Arms to Hold You (+2 Bonus Tracks)

Veruca Salt - Eight Arms to Hold You (+2 Bonus Tracks)

Band: Veruca Salt Title: Eight Arms to Hold You (+2 Bonus Tracks) Rating: Release Date: 01 April, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks:

Customer Reviews Veruca Salt is bitchin It's exciting and full of energy, yet it has the rich level of depth and self-questioning that we've come to expect from such great artists as Louise Post and Nina Gordon. I found Veruca Salt's album "Eight Arms to Hold You" to be one of the very best albums that I own. I'm a huge "girl band" fan. I also own "Resolver" which I would recomend if you like alot of diversity from song to song and if you like music that carries deep, sad undertones with spurts of rage. Also, I would like to add that Louise Post IS NOT a bassist; she plays lead. A long time music lover writes: I bought Veruca Salt's first CD, "American Thighs", after seeing them in concert with Filter this year (2000). I agree with NinaSardines' review. Both bands are excellent live! I'd only breifly heard Veruca Salt before this. Both CDs are well worth your money. "Eight Arms" is much heavier. And yes, there is a new CD scheduled for release in May, I'll buy that too. The new bass player rocks, of course Louise's guitar playing is still "par excellence". Enjoy the music and see them if you get the opportunity. P. S. Filter's "Title of Record" is worth your time and money also. Veruca Salt * Eight Arms To Hold You - NinaSardines@aol.com First of all I'd like to point out to whoever did the first review, Louise Post is (was) not the bassist for Veruca Salt! She was the lead guitarist. Ok. Steve Lack played bass. Ok, now that that is cleared up. Veruca Salt was an awesome awesome band from Chicago. With two female lead singers, Nina Gordon, and Louise Post. Louise as I said played lead guitar, and Nina played rhythm. They started out with with Nina's brother, Jim as their drummer, as a temporary thing, then he left after American Thighs (their first phenomenal CD) and Stacey Jones replaced him (from Letters To Cleo). Alright. So Veruca Salt on this album was prettie heavy. Starts off with "Straight" which is, then to popular "Volcano Girls. " There is one acoustic song, "Benjamin. " It's beautiful. Basically it's American Thighs, turned up like 10 notches, with light spots, plus some cow bells and other fun percussion stuff. Seriously, you'll love it. GET IT! And if you don't have American Thighs get that too. By the way, Veruca Salt broke up in mid '98. Nina Gordon left, then everyone else did. But Louise Post continued to use the name and got new people to join, and the new Veruca Salt is coming out with a CD in May-ish, I believe. Oh and Nina too, she's gone solo, just her. So continue supporting them, please! It's totally worth it. Oh yeah, and if you like VS then you'll like artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Breeders, Hole. . . etc I love Veruca Salt. . You can see a complete list of all Veruca Salt discography, or go back to the Veruca Salt tabs