Tape Head

Infobox Album | Name = Tape Head
Type = studio
Artist = King's X


Released = October 20 1998
Recorded = May 1998 - Jul 1998
Genre = Hard Rock
Length = 47:41
Label = Metal Blade
Producer = King's X
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fyz8b5p4msqs link]
*"The Phantom Tollbooth" Rating|4|5 {2 reviews} [http://www.tollbooth.org/reviewm/kingsx98.html link]
*"HM Magazine" [http://web.archive.org/web/20010222184244/www.hmmagazine.com/issue74/74Albums.htm link] cite journal |last=Van Pelt |first=Doug |year=1998 |month=November/December |title=Album Reviews: KING'S X "Tape Head" |journal=HM Magazine |id=ISSN|1066-6923 |issue=74 |pages= ] |Last album = "Best of King's X"
(1997)
This album = "Tape Head"
(1998)
Next album = "Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous"
(2000) |

Track listing

#Groove Machine – 3:42
#Fade – 3:24
#Over and Over – 3:23
#Ono – 3:55
#Cupid – 4:14
#Ocean – 3:08
#Little Bit of Soul – 4:13
#Hate You – 3:01
#Higher Than God – 3:00
#Happy – 5:38
#Mr. Evil – 3:45
#World – 3:36
#Walter Bela Farkas (Live Peace In New York) – 2:32
#Two "*"

Personnel

*Doug Pinnick- bass/vocals
*Ty Tabor- guitar/vocals
*Jerry Gaskill- drums/vocals

Album notes

* Released October 20th, 1998.
* All songs by King's X
* Recorded at Hound Pound and Alien Beans Studios May - July 1998
* Mixed and mastered at Alien Beans by Ty Tabor
* Photography by Wanda Tabor
* Cover by Ty Tabor
* Design by Brian J Ames
* Additional Musicians: Wally Farkas - Vocals on "Walter Bela Farkas"
* According to Doug Pinnick, he brought the songs "Happy", "Cupid" and "Hate You" and Ty Tabor brought "Ocean" to the Tapehead recording sessions.
* All other songs were band created during the recording session - a song a day for 14 days.
* The controversial unreleased track, "Quality Control" is included on Tapehead only now the song is titled "Happy". The majority of the lyrics are now different, including the lack of profanity.
* The album cover picture is that of Doug Pinnick wrapped in recording tape."*" The cassette and import CD versions of Tape Head has the additional track "Two" as the last song, track 15.

References

External links

* [http://www.kingsxrocks.com/ Official King's X Site] , Accessed on July 11, 2005.
* [http://www.kingsx.net/band/albums/th.html Additional information about the album] , Accessed on April 26, 2006.
* [http://www.kingsx-france.com/ site francophone] , Accessed on July 24, 2006.