The Portable Altamont

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Album Info

Release Date: 1991

Label: Shock

Compilation of the first five Shock 7" releases with an extra track by each artist. Includes a 12-page booklet.

Tracks 1-2: Skullflower - I Live In The Bottomless Pit / Bo Diddley's Shitpump 7" (1989).
Tracks 4-5: Coil - Wrong Eye / Scope 7" (1990).
Tracks 7-8: Current 93 - She Is Dead And All Fall Down / God Has Three Faces And Wood Has No Name 7" (1989) All tracks recorded in Tokyo, July 1989. This trinity is for Thorn.
Tracks 10-11: Nurse With Wound - Sinister Senile E.P. 7" (1989).
Tracks 13-15: Drunks With Guns - Drunks With Guns 7" (1990).
Tracks 3, 6, 9, 12 and 16 are previously unreleased material by each group.

Back cover photograph: Thanks to Erica and Stuart for providing it.

Special thanks to John Balance, Savage Pencil, Stan Seitrich, Steven Stapleton and David Tibet, who conceived of this project and gave it its title.

All tracks © The individual artists
This compilation © 1991 Shock CD.

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