Hole (Foetus album)

Hole
Hole
Studio album by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
Released	September 1984
Recorded	May 1983–October 1983
Studio	Wave Studios, London, England
Genre	Industrial
Length	42:46
Label	Self Immolation/Some Bizzare
Producer	J. G. Thirlwell
J. G. Thirlwell chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Sounds	^[2]

Hole is a Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel album released in September 1984. It was the first Foetus material released by Self Immolation through Some Bizzare. In 1995, Hole was given a US re-release by Thirsty Ear.

Hole is Self Immolation #WOMB FDL 3.

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by J. G. Thirlwell.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Clothes Hoist"	3:25
2.	"Lust for Death"	3:38
3.	"I'll Meet You in Poland Baby"	4:50
4.	"Hot Horse"	3:31
5.	"Sick Man"	4:15

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Street of Shame"	3:28
2.	"Satan Place"	3:22
3.	"White Knuckles"	4:31
4.	"Water Torture"	3:50
5.	"Cold Day in Hell"	7:03

A vinyl test pressing is released which includes two additional tracks "Sick Man Edit" [1:07] (end of LP side 1) and "Cold Day In Hell Edit" [1:14] (end of LP side 2). Both are edited versions of the originals.

Bonus 12"[]

Some copies of the original LP release were packaged with a 12" containing bonus tracks. These tracks later appeared, variously, on Wash/Slog, Finely Honed Machine, and Sink.

"Wash It All Off" – 6:05
"Sick Minutes" – 8:43
"Halo Flamin' Lead" – 4:51
"Finely Honed Machine" – 9:23
"Today I Started Slogging Again" – 7:34

Personnel[]

Charles Gray – engineering
Warne Livesy – engineering
J. G. Thirlwell (as Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel) – instruments, production, illustrations

Charts[]

Chart (1984)	Peak position
UK Indie Chart^[3]	3

References[]

^ Farley, Keith. "Hole". Allmusic. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
^ King, Sam (April 14, 1990). "Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: Hole". Sounds. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2014.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

External links[]

Hole at Discogs (list of releases)
Hole at foetus.org

[allmusic-1] Farley, Keith. "Hole". Allmusic. Retrieved February 24, 2013.

[sounds-2] King, Sam (April 14, 1990). "Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: Hole". Sounds. Retrieved February 24, 2013.

[3] Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2014.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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