''Monster'' is the fourth and final studio album by the American

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band

Fetchin Bones Fetchin Bones was a cross-genre rock band from North Carolina. During a six-year career they produced four studio albums but were most celebrated for inspired live performances. One reviewer stated they were "a band that must be seen live for a ...

, released on June 9, 1989 through

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Reception

''Monster'' proved to be the band's most successful release, peaking at #175 on the Billboard charts and producing the popular single "Love Crushing". Tommy Steele was nominated the

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for his artwork on the album. Tom Demalon of

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gave it 3 out of 5 stars, praising the emotion depth of the lyrics and noting that "the quintet doesn't let up often, serving up a punk-tinged, power pop musical backdrop for the strafing vocals of Hope Nicholls."

Track listing

All songs composed by

Chart positions

;Album ;Singles

Personnel

;Fetchin Bones *

Hope Nicholls Hope Nicholls (born January 1960) is an American singer-songwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock bands Fetchin Bones, Sugarsmack and Snagglepuss. She also briefly toured with Martin Atkins' b ...

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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 ...

* Danna Pentes –

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violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

* Aaron Pitkin –

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 ...

* Clay Richardson –

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 ...

* Errol Stewart – guitar ;Additional musicians and production * Jay David Buchsbaum –

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* Tim Carr – executive production * Jim Dineen – executive engineering * Paul Hamingson –

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* Gina Immel – executive engineering *

Ed Stasium Ed Stasium is an American record producer and audio engineer, who has worked on albums by the Ramones, Talking Heads, Motörhead, the Smithereens and Living Colour. Early life and education Raised in Green Brook Township, New Jersey, and gradua ...

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* Tom Whalley – executive production

External links

Video of the single ''Love Crushing''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Monster (Fetchin Bones Album) Fetchin Bones albums 1989 albums Capitol Records albums Albums produced by Ed Stasium