Cover Your Heart and the Anvil Pants Odyssey

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Cover Your Heart
Compilation album by
ReleasedAugust 5, 2008
RecordedYMA Studios Burbank, CA
GenreAlternative rock,[1] industrial metal[2]
Length59:02
LabelI AM: WOLFPACK
ProducerWes Borland
Black Light Burns chronology
Cruel Melody
(2007)
Cover Your Heart
(2008)
The Moment You Realize You're Going to Fall
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Sputnik Music[3]

Cover Your Heart is a compilation album by American rock band Black Light Burns.[2] It consists of a CD (Cover Your Heart) and a DVD (The Anvil Pants Odyssey), which was a professionally shot documentary of when Black Light Burns was touring for roughly a year and a half on their debut album Cruel Melody, which preceded this release.

Track listing[edit]

# Title Time Songwriter(s) Notes
1 "Forkboy" 4:04 Paul G. Barker, Jello Biafra, Al Jourgensen, Will Fredrick Rieflin, Jeffery Thomas Ward Originally performed by Lard
2 "So Alive" 3:33 Daniel Ash, Kevin Michael Dompe, David J. Haskins Originally performed by Love and Rockets
3 "Hungry Like the Wolf" 3:44 Nicholas James Bates, Simon John Le Bon, Andrew Taylor, John Nigel Taylor, Roger Taylor Originally performed by Duran Duran
4 "Lucretia My Reflection" 4:32 Andrew Eldritch Originally performed by The Sisters of Mercy
5 "Rid of Me" 4:09 Polly Jean Harvey Originally performed by PJ Harvey
6 "The Art of Self Defense" 2:46 Duane Paul Denison, Carey McNeilly, David WM Sims, David Lambeth Yow Originally performed by The Jesus Lizard
7 "On the Bound" 4:56 Fiona Apple, Maude Maggart Originally performed by Fiona Apple
8 "I Am the Sun" 3:10 Michael Rolfe Gira Originally performed by Swans
9 "Blood Red Head on Fire" 3:53 Wes Borland Originally performed by Big Dumb Face
10 "Search & Destroy" 3:20 Iggy Pop, James Robert Williamson Originally performed by The Stooges
11 "Drowning Together, Dying Alone" 5:08 Wes Borland Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
12 "Failing" 3:55 Wes Borland Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
13 "Ribbons" 1:50 Wes Borland Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
14 "Zargon Marfoauf" 1:36 Wes Borland Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
15 "Vennisoun" 2:04 Wes Borland Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
16 "Zlitchufdux" 1:46 Wes Borland Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
17 "Giving in Again" 4:36 Wes Borland Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions

Personnel[edit]

  • Wes Borland – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, producer, mixing
  • Marshall Kilpatric – drums, percussion (on 1-10 and 14)
  • Nick Annis – guitar on (1, 2 and 5)
  • Sean Fetterman – bass on (2 and 5)
  • Greg Isabelle – drums (on 12)
  • Jeff Hannan – engineering, Mixing
  • Austin Satterfield – engineering assistant
  • Dave Collins – mastering

DVD[edit]

The DVD "Anvil Pants Odyssey" consists of a nearly two-hour-long documentary with the band, the music videos for "Mesopotamia," "4 Walls," and "Lie," and also features a behind the scenes look at the making of the "Lie" video. The DVD's content was primarily filmed during the summer and fall of 2007 and was filmed and edited by Satchel Underwood, including the video for "Mesopotamia" and the making of "Lie" segment. The video for "Lie" was directed by Josh Evans, while the video for "4 Walls" was directed by Wes Borland.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Cover Your Heart And The Anvil Pants Odyssey reviews". Retrieved August 23, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Cover Your Heart/The Anvil Pants Odyssey - Black Light Burns | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  3. ^ Sputnik

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