Hope Against Hope (album)
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''Hope Against Hope'' is the 1988 debut
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by
Band of Susans Band of Susans was an American alternative rock No Wave band formed in New York City in 1986 and active until 1996. It originally consisted of Robert Poss (guitar/vocals), Susan Stenger (bass/vocals), Ron Spitzer (drums), with Susan Lyall (guit ...
, released in 1988 on
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. The CD version includes their debut EP ''Blessing and Curse'', which contains "Sometimes" and "Where Have All The Flowers Gone". They were based in New York City.


Track listing


Personnel

Adapted from ''Hope Against Hope'' liner notes. ;Band of Susans * Susan Lyall –
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Robert Poss Robert Poss is an American guitarist and music producer. He was the front man and primary composer for Band of Susans between 1986 and 1996. He has also collaborated with Rhys Chatham and the band When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water ...
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, electric guitar,
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* Alva Rogers –
backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...
* Ron Spitzer –
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 ...
* Susan Stenger –
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 ...
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backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...
* Susan Tallman – electric guitar ;Production and additional personnel * Chris Gehringer – mastering * John Herman – assistant engineer *
Jim Klein Jim Klein is a Los Angeles born, Philadelphia-based, Emmy Award-winning composer, music producer, recording engineer, and songwriter. Klein is best known as the producer and songwriter behind the influential freestyle group Pajama Party, whose ...
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Charts


Release history


References


External links

* {{Authority control 1988 debut albums Band of Susans albums Blast First albums Albums produced by Robert Poss