You Can't Pray a Lie
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| You Can't Pray a Lie | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | March 1989 | |||
| Recorded | October 1988 | |||
| Studio | Smart, Madison, WI[1] | |||
| Genre | Punk, grunge | |||
| Length | 31:13 | |||
| Label | Touch and Go[2] | |||
| Producer | Laughing Hyenas, Butch Vig | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [4] |
You Can't Pray a Lie is the debut studio album of American garage rock band Laughing Hyenas.[5] It was released in 1989 by Touch and Go Records.[6] It was reissued in 1992 accompanied with Life of Crime.
Trouser Press praised Larissa Strickland's guitar playing.[6] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "a perfect coalescing of the violence of punk and the guitar stomp of the coming grunge sound."[4] Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996, wrote that "many albums throughout rock-and-roll's history could carry the additional signifier 'hard-living set to music,' but few are as convincing as the albums made by Laughing Hyenas."[7]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Laughing Hyenas.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Love's My Only Crime" | 3:20 |
| 2. | "Seven Come Eleven" | 2:18 |
| 3. | "Black Eyed Susan" | 2:40 |
| 4. | "Lullaby and Goodnight" | 4:43 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sister" | 4:20 |
| 2. | "Desolate Son" | 4:41 |
| 3. | "Dedications to the One I Love" | 4:42 |
| 4. | "New Gospel" | 4:25 |
Personnel
Adapted from the You Can't Pray a Lie liner notes.[8]
- Laughing Hyenas
- John Brannon – lead vocals, trumpet
- Jim Kimball – drums
- Kevin Strickland – bass guitar
- Larissa Strickland – guitar
- Production and additional personnel
- Laughing Hyenas – production
- Butch Vig – production, engineering, recording
