Grotto of Miracles

Grotto of Miracles is the second studio album by American experimental rock band Sun City Girls.[5][6] It was released in 1986 by Placebo Records.[7] Like many Sun City Girls LPs, Grotto of Miracles has become a collector's item.[8]

Grotto of Miracles
Studio album by
Sun City Girls
Released1986 (1986)
RecordedApril 1985 (1985-04)
StudioRadical Recording, Tempe, AZ
GenreExperimental rock, psychedelic rock
Length42:40
LabelPlacebo PLA-19[1]
Sun City Girls chronology
Sun City Girls
(1984)		 Grotto of Miracles
(1986)		 Horse Cock Phepner
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Spin Alternative Record Guide8/10[4]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "With demented lyrical concepts and such offbeat accessories as antelope bells, chimes and temple blocks, Grotto of Miracles is an ethnic stew that shows enormous creative growth."[7] The Chicago Reader wrote that the band's "wiggy instrumentals were flavored by surf rock, jazz, and noise, and would give way to pummeling art rock, nonsensical rants, and meandering improvisation."[9] Perfect Sound Forever praised the "beautiful, Rick [Bishop]-heavy, unusually near-accessible first side."[10] Maximum Rocknroll called the album "very musical, poetic, downright pretty, distinctively ugly, the great acid experience or background music."[11]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sun City Girls, except "Kal el Lazi Kad Ham", which is a traditional arrangement.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Radio Morocco"5:00
2."Different Kind of Whore"4:24
3."In a Lesbian Meadow"2:17
4."Swing of Kings"2:05
5."Damcar"2:40
6."Kal el Lazi Kad Ham"5:28
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Black Weather Shoes"1:13
2."Mama's Milk (Too Dry)"1:00
3."The Spice Nest"5:17
4."Frankincense and Fish"4:00
5."The Mystery of Death"3:15
6."Ask Heem (202 456 7369)"4:50
7."It's My Old Friend the Future"1:16

Personnel

Adapted from the Grotto of Miracles liner notes.[12]

Release history
Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1986 Placebo LP PLA-19

References
  1. Blush, Steven; Petros, George (October 19, 2010). "American Hardcore (Second Edition): A Tribal History". Feral House – via Google Books.
  2. Chadbourne, Eugene. "Sun City Girls: Grotto of Miracles > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 7. MUZE. p. 841.
  4. Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 385.
  5. Buckley, Peter (January 25, 2003). "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides – via Google Books.
  6. "Sun City Girls raid the vaults and ready a new compilation of singles and rarities". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  7. Robbins, Ira; Sprague, David (2007). "Sun City Girls". Trouser Press. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  8. Armstrong, Gene. "The Music Lives". Tucson Weekly.
  9. Margasak, Peter. "Sun City Girls". Chicago Reader.
  10. "Sun City Girls". www.furious.com.
  11. "Grotto of Miracles LP".
  12. Grotto of Miracles (sleeve). Phoenix, Arizona: Placebo Records. 1986.
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