The Way to Salvation

Infobox Album
Name = The Way to Salvation
Type = studio
Artist = King Missile


Released = April 16, 1991
Recorded = Fort Apache Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 1991
Genre = Avant-garde
Length = 46:43
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = King Missile, Lou Giordano
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9fexq95ldte link]

Last album = "Mystical Shit"
(1990)
This album = "The Way to Salvation"
(1991)
Next album = "Happy Hour"
(1992)

"The Way to Salvation" is the fourth album by avant-garde band King Missile, and the band's first for Atlantic Records. It was released on April 16, 1991.

Track listing

All lyrics by John S. Hall (except "Betrayal Takes Two," a Richard Hell cover).

# "The Way to Salvation" (Hall, Dave Rick) – 2:06
# "Life" (Hall, David Ramirez, Rick, Chris Xefos) – 4:02
# "The Boy Who Ate Lasagna and Could Jump over a Church" (Hall, Rick) – 1:33
# "The Story of Willy" (Hall, Ramirez, Rick) – 2:24
# "Dinosaurs" (Hall, Rick) – 3:26
# "I Wish" (Hall, Rick) – 2:32
# "The Indians" (Hall) – 1:41
# "It's" (Hall, Ramirez, Rick, Xefos) – 5:04
# "My Heart Is a Flower" (Hall, Rick) – 2:36
# "Pickaxe" (Hall, Ramirez, Rick) –2:30
# "Sex with You" (Hall, Rick) – 3:36
# "Part Two" (Hall, Rick) – 2:12
# "Betrayal Takes Two" (Hell, Ivan Julian) – 3:09
# "Listen to Me" (Hall, Ramirez, Rick) – 2:28
# "Come Closer" (Hall, Xefos) – 2:58
# "Scotland" (Hall) – 1:09
# "To Walk Among the Pigs" (Hall, Rick) – 2:55

Personnel

*John S. Hall – lead vocals, percussion on "Scotland"
*Dave Rick – guitar
*Chris Xefos – bass, keyboards, percussion
*David Ramirez – drums, percussion
*Toaz Junior High School Boys' Choir – backing vocals on "The Way to Salvation" and "I Wish"