The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape

The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
Compilation album by Big Black
Released	1987
Recorded	1985–1987
Genre	Punk rock
Length	52:17
Label	Homestead
Big Black chronology
Headache (1987) The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape (1987) Songs About Fucking (1987)

The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape is an album by post-hardcore noise rock band Big Black. It was released in 1987 by Touch and Go Records. The album is a CD compilation of Big Black's Atomizer album (minus the song "Strange Things"), "Heartbeat" single and Headache EP. Atomizer is pictured on the cover artwork as an eight-track tape playing in a Panasonic TNT portable player.

The title of the album, and the liner notes by Steve Albini, show the band's low regard for compact discs, drawing parallels between the 8-track tape's fall from 1970s state-of-the-art favor, presaging the outmoding of CDs by newer digital media that would arrive in subsequent decades.

Reception[]

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Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

Track listing[]

All songs written by Big Black, except where noted.

1. "Jordan, Minnesota" - 3:20
2. "Passing Complexion" - 3:04
3. "Big Money" - 2:29
4. "Kerosene" - 6:05
5. "Bad Houses" - 3:09
6. "Fists of Love" - 4:21
7. "Stinking Drunk" - 3:27
8. "Bazooka Joe" - 4:43
9. "Cables (live)" - 3:09
10. "Heartbeat" (Colin Newman) - 3:48
11. "Things to Do Today" - 1:44
12. "I Can't Believe" - 1:03
13. "My Disco" - 2:52
14. "Grinder" - 2:23
15. "Ready Men" - 3:51
16. "Pete, King of the Detectives" - 2:42

"Heartbeat" is a cover of the Wire song.

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