Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt

Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
EP by Veruca Salt
Released	April 16, 1996
Recorded	1996 (1996)
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	19:08
Label	DGC/Minty Fresh
Producer	Steve Albini
Veruca Salt chronology
American Thighs (1994) Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt (1996) Eight Arms to Hold You (1997)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B[2]

Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt is an EP by Veruca Salt released in 1996. It followed the band's hit album American Thighs (1994). The EP contains four songs, two by Nina Gordon and two by Louise Post.

The album art shows the band dressed in toilet paper. In the liner notes, bassist Steve Lack is credited under his actual name, Stephen J. Lackiewicz.

Track listing[]

1. "Shimmer Like a Girl" (Nina Gordon) – 4:03
2. "I'm Taking Europe with Me" (Louise Post) – 3:45
3. "New York Mining Disaster 1996" (Gordon) – 4:56
4. "Disinherit" (Post) – 6:25

Personnel[]

• Louise Post – guitar, vocals
• Nina Gordon – guitar, vocals
• Steve Lack – bass guitar
• Jim Shapiro – drums, vocals
• Steve Albini – producer
• John Golden – mastering
• Paul Elledge – photographer

Usage in popular culture[]

"Shimmer Like a Girl" is often used as the main theme song for Shimmer Women Athletes, a Chicago-based all-female wrestling promotion.

"I'm Taking Europe with Me" was featured in the closing credits for Matthew Bright's motion picture Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby.

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