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Eight Arms to Hold You | 
 enlarge | Artist: Veruca Salt
Label: Outpost Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 31283
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 30001
UPC: 607703000124
EAN: 0607703000124
ASIN: B000002RBT
Release Date: February 11, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Straight | | • | Volcano Girls | | • | Don't Make Me Prove It | | • | Awesome | | • | One Last Time | | • | With David Bowie | | • | Benjamin | | • | Shutterbug | | • | The Morning Sad | | • | Sound Of The Bell | | • | Loneliness Is Worse | | • | Stoneface | | • | Venus Man Trap | | • | Earthcrosser |
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There's more of producer Bob Rock (AC/DC) here than the feisty band that recorded Seether two years previously. That's a good thing on the single "Volcano Girls," complete with its squealing guitars and "I Am the Walrus" nod. Titles like "With David Bowie" and "Venus Man Trap" are the best thing about the rest of a rather one-dimensional package. --Jeff Bateman
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
 Exceptional October 2, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a great record. Even better than the first record that was also quite good but simply better than the EP "blow it out". This is really exciting pop-punk with beautiful female harmonies.
 One hit wonder worth one star September 18, 2006
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
C'mon! I was struck with terror when I saw all the good reviews on this one. At it's best this is a mediocre album. My copy of the album hasn't seen daylight, nor laserlight for a good ten years, but since I'm in the process of burning my CD's to my Itunes catalogue I gave "Eight Arms To Hold You" another chance. After having heard the entire CD again - almost ten years after, my conclusion is the same as when I bought back in 1997!! One star for the catchy power rock hit "Volcano Girls" with a nice touch of the Bob Rock sound and production. Why Veruca Salt sounds like a high school band on the rest of the album is beyond me.
"My heart skips around when i hear the sound..." April 26, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my favorite album by Veruca Salt. Eight arms to hold you is a staple in female/male rock music. Louise Post and Nina Gordon were at their best both vocally and musically on this record. Post's songs include:Venus Man Trap, The Sound of the Bell, Shutterbug, One Last Time, Straight, and Don't Make me Prove it. The best song from her creation is Shutterbug with lyrics like:"It's freezing in Bristol, there's love on the telly, a girl grinning at me, she's doing the shimmy..." Gordon's songs include: Volcano Girls, Loneliness is Worse, Earthcrosser, The Morning Sad, Benjamin, With David Bowie, Awesome, and Stoneface. Her best song is a toss-up between Loneliness is Worse:"Dont you wanna be happy with me, if you don't come around soon I'll turn sadder than you ever were..." and Benjamin,"When you were falling from my tree i was not scared, I thought you'd meet me back up there, it never dawned on my you were home-free..." Eight Arms to hold you is a great and rip-roaring fun time. Just listen to the way Nina Gordon holds the the note: "Where's my lip glossssssss.....!" it will blow you away. I miss this band dearly, also check-out Nina's solo record Tonight and the rest of my life and Salt's first record American Thighs.
what a moron March 22, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
the editorial review on this album is ridiculous. the way that veruca salt managed to seamlessly work out a 14 song album that frequently flops back and forth between arena rock and power pop and have it be one coherent and beautiful collection of music that addresses a variety of topics is anything but "one dimensional." people who don't like music shouldn't review music.
WOW! October 23, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you like awesome music I suggest you buy this cd. I listen to it unstop. It's addicting
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