Funny Valentine

Funny Valentine
Studio album by Massacre
Released	1998 (1998)
Recorded	January 1998
Studio	Orange Music, West Orange, New Jersey
Genre	Experimental rock
Length	61:17
Label	Tzadik (United States)
Producer	Massacre
Massacre chronology
Killing Time (1981) Funny Valentine (1998) Meltdown (2001)

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Funny Valentine is studio album by avant-rock, experimental power trio Massacre. The line-up for this album featured Fred Frith (guitar), Bill Laswell (bass guitar) and Charles Hayward (drums), with Hayward having replaced Fred Maher, who played drums on their first album, Killing Time (1981).

Funny Valentine was recorded at Laswell's studio, Orange Music, in West Orange, New Jersey in January 1998.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Massacre.

1. "Leaf Violence" – 4:43
2. "Down to Five a Day" – 4:42
3. "Lizard-skin Junk-mail" – 5:26
4. "Ladder" – 11:30
5. "South Orange Sunset" – 4:13
6. "Six-cylinder Sinister" – 5:21
7. "300 Days in the Vacant Lot" – 7:34
8. "Say Hey Willie" – 2:14
9. "Talk Radio" – 3:48
10. "Well-dressed Ripping up Wood" – 4:22
11. "Further Conversations With White Arc" – 6:24

Source: AllMusic, Discogs.

Personnel

Massacre

• Fred Frith – guitar
• Bill Laswell – bass guitars
• Charles Hayward – drums

Sound and artwork

• Robert Musso – engineer
• Allan Tucker – mastering
• Massacre – producer
• Kazunori Sugiyama – associate executive producer
• John Zorn – executive producer
• Ikue Mori – design
• Adolf Wölfli – artwork

Source: Discogs.

External links

• Fred Frith discography