You Can't Pray a Lie

You Can't Pray a Lie is the debut studio album of American garage rock band Laughing Hyenas.[5] It was released in 1989 by Touch and Go Records.[6] It was reissued in 1992 accompanied with Life of Crime.

You Can't Pray a Lie
Studio album by
Laughing Hyenas
ReleasedMarch 1989 (1989-03)
RecordedOctober 1988 (1988-10)
StudioSmart Studios, Madison, WI[1]
GenreHardcore punk, post-hardcore, punk blues
Length31:13
LabelTouch and Go[2]
ProducerLaughing Hyenas, Butch Vig
Laughing Hyenas chronology
Come Down to the Merry Go Round
(1987)		 You Can't Pray a Lie
(1989)		 Life of Crime
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[4]

Critical reception

Trouser Press praised Larissa Strickland's guitar playing.[6] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "a perfect coalescing of the violence of punk and the guitar stomp of the coming grunge sound."[4] Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996, wrote that "many albums throughout rock-and-roll's history could carry the additional signifier 'hard-living set to music,' but few are as convincing as the albums made by Laughing Hyenas."[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Laughing Hyenas.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Love's My Only Crime"3:20
2."Seven Come Eleven"2:18
3."Black Eyed Susan"2:40
4."Lullaby and Goodnight"4:43
Side two
No.TitleLength
5."Sister"4:20
6."Desolate Son"4:41
7."Dedications to the One I Love"4:42
8."New Gospel"4:25

Personnel

Adapted from the You Can't Pray a Lie liner notes.[8]

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1989 Touch and Go LP TG38

References

  1. Coombe, Doug. "An oral history of the Laughing Hyenas, one of the great unsung Detroit rock bands". Detroit Metro Times.
  2. "You Can't Pray a Lie". Touch and Go. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  3. Carlson, Matt. "You Can't Pray a Lie". Allmusic. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
  4. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. pp. 660–661.
  5. "Laughing Hyenas | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. Christe, Ian; Robbins, Ira (2007). "Laughing Hyenas". Trouser Press. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
  7. Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). "Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996". Voyageur Press – via Google Books.
  8. You Can't Pray a Lie (sleeve). Laughing Hyenas. Chicago, Illinois: Touch and Go Records. 1989.CS1 maint: others (link)
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