"Tiny Meat" is the second
single from the debut album ''
Salt Peter'' by the
trip hop
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Industrial band
Ruby
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. It is the band's best known song, and was released in 1995 in the
United States
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by the
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labels.
"Tiny Meat" is the only single from ''Ruby'' that has charted in the U.S., reaching #22 on
Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks
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in the spring of
1996
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. The single also charted in the
United Kingdom
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, reaching #96.
Track listing
The CD single came in two parts, each with three tracks on them:
* ''part one''
# "Tiny Meat"
(album version) (4:03) -Rankine, Walk
# "Tiny Meat"
(Danny Saber
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Mix) (5:06) -Rankine, Walk
# "Heidi"
(Scream Team Remix) (7:48) -Rankine, Walk
:''total length:'' (16:57)
* ''part two''
# "Tiny Meat"
(meat for the feet mix) (6:24) -Rankine, Walk
# "Tiny Meat"
(Mark Walk mix) (4:28) -Rankine, Walk
# "Scunner"
(4:02) -Rankine, Walk
:''total length:'' (14:54)
Chart performance
Singles
Production & personnel
:''part one:''
track one
Produced by
Mark Walk
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&
Lesley Rankine, and mixed by Walk.
track two
Produced by Walk & Rankine.
Remixed by Danny Saber, engineering & livestock mutilation by John X.
track three
Produced by Walk & Rankine.
Remix produced by The Scream Team for Worldwide Scream Team Productions, Engineered & mixed by Tim Holmes.
Artwork for the CD single by Rankine, photographs by Matthew Donaldson, and layout by Toby Egelnick.
:''part two:''
track one
Produced by Walk & Rankine.
track two
Produced by Walk & Rankine.
track three
Produced by Walk & Rankine.
Music video
As with all of ''Ruby's'' singles, this track had a
promotional video made for it.
References
External links
Official artist website (archived)
{{Authority control
1995 singles
Ruby (band) songs
British alternative rock songs