1989 studio album by Laughing Hyenas
You Can't Pray a Lie is the debut studio album of American garage rock band Laughing Hyenas .[5] It was released in 1989 by Touch and Go Records .[6] It was reissued in 1992 accompanied with Life of Crime .
Critical reception [ ]
Trouser Press praised Larissa Strickland's guitar playing.[6] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "a perfect coalescing of the violence of punk and the guitar stomp of the coming grunge sound."[4] Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996 , wrote that "many albums throughout rock-and-roll's history could carry the additional signifier 'hard-living set to music,' but few are as convincing as the albums made by Laughing Hyenas."[7]
Track listing [ ]
All tracks are written by Laughing Hyenas .
1. "Love's My Only Crime" 3:20 2. "Seven Come Eleven" 2:18 3. "Black Eyed Susan" 2:40 4. "Lullaby and Goodnight" 4:43
5. "Sister" 4:20 6. "Desolate Son" 4:41 7. "Dedications to the One I Love" 4:42 8. "New Gospel" 4:25
Personnel [ ]
Adapted from the You Can't Pray a Lie liner notes.[8]
Laughing Hyenas
Production and additional personnel
Release history [ ]
References [ ]
^ Coombe, Doug. "An oral history of the Laughing Hyenas, one of the great unsung Detroit rock bands" . Detroit Metro Times .
^ "You Can't Pray a Lie" . Touch and Go . Retrieved 1 November 2020 .
^ Carlson, Matt. "You Can't Pray a Lie" . Allmusic . Retrieved July 8, 2015 .
^ Jump up to: a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide . Visible Ink Press. 1999. pp. 660–661.
^ "Laughing Hyenas | Biography & History" . AllMusic .
^ Jump up to: a b Christe, Ian; Robbins, Ira (2007). "Laughing Hyenas" . Trouser Press . Retrieved July 8, 2015 .
^ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). "Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996" . Voyageur Press – via Google Books.
^ You Can't Pray a Lie (sleeve). Laughing Hyenas . Chicago, Illinois: Touch and Go Records . 1989.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link )
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