Hope Against Hope
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Hope Against Hope is the 1988 debut album by Band of Susans
, released in 1988 on Blast First
. The CD
version includes their debut EP Blessing and Curse, which contains "Sometimes" and "Where Have All The Flowers Gone". They were based in New York City.
Band of Susans
Band of Susans was a noise rock band formed in New York City in 1986. It originally consisted of Robert Poss , Susan Stenger , Ron Spitzer , with Susan Lyall , Susan Tallman , and Alva Rogers . However, the band would undergo several permutations over the years, usually involving guitarists...
, released in 1988 on Blast First
Blast First
Blast First is a sub label of one-time independent record label, Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985. It was named after a phrase taken from the first number of the radical Vorticist journal Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis in 1914...
. The CD
Compact Disc
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version includes their debut EP Blessing and Curse, which contains "Sometimes" and "Where Have All The Flowers Gone". They were based in New York City.
Track listing
All songs written by Robert Poss.- "Not Even Close" - 4:58
- "Learning to Sin" - 3:04
- "Throne of Blood" - 3:15
- "Elliott Abrams in Hell" (instrumental) - 2:21
- "All The Wrong Reasons" - 5:25
- "I The Jury" - 4:26
- "No God" (instrumental) - 4:59
- "You Were An Optimist" - 3:19
- "Ready to Bend" - 3:51
- "Hope Against Hope" - 4:59
- "Sometimes" - 3:53
- "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" (instrumental) - 5:01
Personnel
- Robert Poss: lead vocals, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Susan Stenger: bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, backing vocals - Susan Lyall: guitar, backing vocals
- Susan Tallman: guitar
- Ron Spitzer: drumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s - Alva Rogers: backing vocals
- Jim Klein: engineer
- John Herman: assistant engineer
- Chris Gehringer: mastering