Scars from Falling Down

Scars From Falling Down is a studio album by Steel Pole Bath Tub, released in 1995 through Slash Records.^[4]

Scars From Falling Down
Studio album by Steel Pole Bath Tub
Released	May 2, 1995 (1995-05-02)
Recorded	Various Studio D (Sausalito, CA) Poolside Studios (San Francisco, CA)
Genre	Noise rock
Length	46:10
Label	London/Slash
Producer	Steel Pole Bath Tub
Steel Pole Bath Tub chronology
Some Cocktail Suggestions (1994) Scars From Falling Down (1995) Unlistenable (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
NME	[3]

"Twist" was released as the album's single, accompanied by a video.^[5] Slash dropped the band after the release of the album, rejecting the idea of a follow-up album composed of experimental Cars covers.^[6]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "The intriguingly straightforward Scars From Falling Down relegates the band’s battery of samples to subordinate status, a state of affairs that enhances [Mike] Morasky's fractured-but-judicious riffing while doing little to protect the air of mystery that's one of Steel Pole's chief assets."^[7] The Spokesman-Review called the album "one of the year's best major label releases," writing that "SPBT thrashes, it forges impenetrable walls of sound and noise, it floods its music with grating dissonance and, at times, it dismembers rock ‘n’ roll into an unrecognizable mess."^[8] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that "this use of chaos as order finds precedent in tightly-wound groups like Big Black and Gang of Four."^[9] Spin called it "noise rock to the nth degree."^[10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Steel Pole Bath Tub.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The 500 Club"	4:59
2.	"Population 2"	3:23
3.	"Home Is a Rope"	3:44
4.	"The Conversation"	5:30
5.	"Twist"	5:50
6.	"Every Thing"	3:42
7.	"3 of Cups"	3:49
8.	"Four Barrels"	1:23
9.	"Decline"	3:49
10.	"Kansas City"	5:03
11.	"Friday"	6:57

International CD issue

No.	Title	Length
12.	"I Want It Now"	2:44
13.	"Surrender"	4:39

Personnel

Adapted from the Scars From Falling Down liner notes.^[11]

Steel Pole Bath Tub Dale Flattum – bass guitar, vocals Mike Morasky – guitar, vocals Darren Morey (as D.K. Mor-X) – drums, vocals Additional musicians Yoo – guitar (2)

Production and additional personnel Eric Holland – engineering, mixing (2, 4, 6 – 11) George Horn – mastering Gary Panter – cover art, illustrations Ed Stasium – mixing (1, 3, 5), maracas (1) Steel Pole Bath Tub – production Jan Tuuri – photography

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	1995	London/Slash	CD, CS, LP	422–828 618