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''Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt'' is an EP by
Veruca Salt Veruca Salt is an American alternative rock band founded in Chicago in 1992 by vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, drummer Jim Shapiro, and bassist Steve Lack. They are best known for their first single, " Seether", which was rel ...
released in 1996. It followed the band's hit album '' American Thighs'' (1994). The EP contains four songs, two written by Nina Gordon and two by
Louise Post Louise Lightner Post (born December 7, 1967) is an American musician. She is best known for being a vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Veruca Salt, which she co-founded with Nina Gordon in 1992. Career Shortly after they me ...
. The album art shows the band dressed in toilet paper. In the liner notes, bassist Steve Lack is credited under his actual name, Stephen J. Lackiewicz.


Track listing

# "Shimmer Like a Girl" (Nina Gordon) – 4:03 # "I'm Taking Europe with Me" (Louise Post) – 3:45 # "New York Mining Disaster 1996" (Gordon) – 4:56 # "Disinherit" (Post) – 6:25


Personnel

* Louise Post –
guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...
,
vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...
* Nina Gordon – guitar, vocals * Steve Lack –
bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...
* Jim Shapiro –
drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...
, vocals * Steve Albini – producer * John Golden – mastering * Paul Elledge –
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Usage in popular culture

"Shimmer Like a Girl" is often used as the main theme song for
Shimmer Women Athletes Shimmer Women Athletes (often referred to and stylized as SHIMMER) was an American, Chicago-based independent women's professional wrestling promotion which held its first event on November 6, 2005. Established by Dave Prazak and run by both ...
, a
Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...
-based all-female wrestling promotion. "I'm Taking Europe with Me" was featured in the closing credits for Matthew Bright's motion picture '' Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby''.


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References

{{Authority control 1996 debut EPs Veruca Salt albums Albums produced by Steve Albini