Head off
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| Studio album by The Hellacopters | ||||
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| Label (s) | Wild Kingdom, Backstage Alliance, Toy's Factory, Sound Pollution | |||
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CD |
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12 |
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35:54 |
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Studio (s) |
Music A Matic Studios (Göteborg) |
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Head Off is the seventh and final studio album by the Swedish rock music band The Hellacopters from 2008.
Emergence
After announcing that the band would split up, The Hellacopters released Head Off as their last album. It consists entirely of covers of songs by other bands who accompanied or influenced The Hellacopters over their 14-year career. These are mainly Scandinavian and American rock bands.
Chips Kiesbye worked again for this album with the band as a music producer . He can also be heard in the background vocals. Stefan Boman played piano on “Another Turn”.
Track list
| No. | title | Text and music | Original interpreter | length |
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| 1 | Electrocute | Carlsson | Demons | 02:43 |
| 2 | Midnight Angels | Hägerås, Wolfbrandt, Fransson, Sandström, Wind | The peep shows | 02:48 |
| 3 | (I'm) watching you | Burks, Cartwright, Drake, Fieldhouse, Silveroli | The humpers | 02:13 |
| 4th | No salvation | Karlsson, Andersson, Andersson, Björnlund | The Turpentines | 03:56 |
| 5 | In the Sign of the Octopus | Ahlgren, Lång Hallgren, Wawrzeniuk, Klemensberger | The Robots | 03:05 |
| 6th | Veronica Lake | Davidson, Reber, Weber, Randt | New Bomb Turks | 02:41 |
| 7th | Another turn | Guttormsson | The Maharajas | 01:59 |
| 8th | I just don't know about girls | Spittles | Asteroid B-612 | 03:28 |
| 9 | Rescue | Cole | Dead moon | 03:51 |
| 10 | Making Up for Lost Time | Fate | The Bellrays | 02:33 |
| 11 | Throttle bottom | Sims | Gaza Strippers | 02:39 |
| 12 | Darling darling | Dräckes, Värmby | The Royal Cream | 03:58 |
Single releases
The band released the song "In the Sign of the Octopus" on March 19, 2008 and "Darling, Darling" on September 5, 2008 as a single .
Reviews
"The band unmistakably puts their very own sound stamp on the selection of rather unknown songs by largely forgotten 90s garage bands."
"A farewell performance that sounds like an album in its own right and seems worthy of the end of a fourteen-year band career."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Thiessies: Review of: The Hellacopters - Head Off. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Verlag , April 1, 2011, accessed on November 28, 2011 .
- ^ Jochen Gedwien: The Hellacopters - Head off. Wrongly handled. In: Plattentests.de . Armin Linder, accessed November 28, 2011 .
Web links
- In the Sign of the Octopus (music video) on the band's official Myspace