Bruiseology
Encyclopedia
Bruiseology is the second and final album by the early 80's
new wave
band, The Waitresses
, released in 1983
. The album was recorded amidst inter-band conflict and failed to chart. The band disbanded a year later.
LP: May 1983 Polydor 9801, Polydor 810-980, Polydor POLD 5080
, except where noted.
1980s
File:1980s decade montage.png|thumb|400px|From left, clockwise: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifted off in 1981; American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev eased tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; The Fall of the Berlin Wall in...
new wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
band, The Waitresses
The Waitresses
The Waitresses were an experimental new wave band from Akron, Ohio. The group was led by guitarist/songwriter Chris Butler with lead vocals performed by Patty Donahue.-Career:...
, released in 1983
1983 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.-January-April:*January – ZTT Records is founded.*January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization...
. The album was recorded amidst inter-band conflict and failed to chart. The band disbanded a year later.
LP: May 1983 Polydor 9801, Polydor 810-980, Polydor POLD 5080
Track listing
All songs written by Chris ButlerChris Butler (musician)
Chris Butler is an American musician led the experimental new wave 1980s band The Waitresses . Butler grew up in the U.S. state of Ohio and majored in sociology at Kent State University...
, except where noted.
- "A Girl's Gotta Do" (Butler, Waitresses)
- "Make the Weather" (Butler, Waitresses)
- "Everything's Wrong"
- "Luxury"
- "Open City"
- "Thinking About Sex Again" (Butler, Waitresses)
- "Bruiseology" (Butler, Waitresses)
- "Pleasure"
- "Spin"
- "They're All Out of Liquor, Let's Find Another Party" (Butler, Waitresses)
Personnel
- Chris ButlerChris Butler (musician)Chris Butler is an American musician led the experimental new wave 1980s band The Waitresses . Butler grew up in the U.S. state of Ohio and majored in sociology at Kent State University...
- Guitar - Patty DonahuePatty DonahuePatricia J. "Patty" Donahue was the American lead singer of the 1980s new wave group The Waitresses.-Career:...
- Vocals - Dan Klayman - Organ
- Tracy WormworthTracy WormworthTracy Wormworth is a bass guitarist working for more than 30 years in the music and television industry in the United States. She is the sister of percussionist James Wormworth....
- Bass - Billy FiccaBilly FiccaBilly Ficca is a punk rock drummer who has played with the bands Television, Nona Hendryx & Zero Cool, 40 Familys, The Washington Squares, The Waitresses and The Neon Boys...
- Drums - Mars WilliamsMars WilliamsMars Williams is an American jazz and rock saxophonist. Originally a ten year classical clarinetist after being exposed to Big Band and Dixieland Jazz by his trumpet playing father, Mars migrated to the saxophone in his senior year of high school, citing influences from Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane...
- Sax