Irresistible Bliss
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Irresistible Bliss was Soul Coughing's 1996 (see 1996 in music) second album. The band initially planned for Tchad Blake, producer of their first album, Ruby Vroom, to helm the album, but the death of a family member in a car accident caused Blake to take a hiatus to grieve. Over the objections of his bandmates and his record label, Slash/Warner Brothers, band founder Mike Doughty (then billed as "M. Doughty") hired producer David Kahne (Fishbone,The Bangles, Tony Bennett, Sugar Ray, The Strokes); he was intent on following up the wild sonics of Ruby Vroom with a tightly-wound, trebly, New Wave inspired record.
The tracking, at Manhattan's Power Station recording studio, was complete in eleven days, and Doughty was jublilant at the results. Doughty, a fan of The Halo Benders, tapped Steve Fisk to produce the tune "Unmarked Helicopters" for the X Files soundtrack Songs in the Key of X. Fisk booked four days in the studio. When the soundtrack song was done within a day, Doughty found his band suddenly wanted to rerecord the entire Kahne sessions.
Doughty's vision of the record collapsed; some Fisk versions replaced Kahne versions, and the mixing process split the tracks between three mixers: Kahne, Chris Shaw, and Ruby producer Tchad Blake, who intervened when bass player Sebastian Steinberg briefly quit the band.
The album's making was so acrimonious that art director Frank Gargiulo was fired over suspicions that he wanted to put a photo of Doughty on the cover.
Irresistible Bliss yielded a hit single for Soul Coughing, "Super Bon Bon."
Track listing
- "Super Bon Bon" (3:31)
- "Soft Serve" (3:12)
- "White Girl" (2:37)
- "Soundtrack to Mary" (3:06)
- "Lazybones" (4:48)
- "4 Out of 5" (3:12)
- "Paint" (2:55)
- "Disseminated" (2:41)
- "Collapse" (3:06)
- "Sleepless" (4:50)
- "The Idiot Kings" (3:57)
- "How Many Cans?" (4:24)
Personnel
- Mike Doughty (then billed as "M. Doughty") – vocals, guitar
- Mark de Gli Antoni – keyboard, sampler, vocals
- Sebastian Steinberg – double bass, fiddle
- Yuval Gabay – drums, vocals
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