Destroy All Human Life Explained

Destroy All Human Life
Type:	Album
Artist:	Country Teasers
Cover:	Destroy_all_human_life.jpg
Released:	February 23, 1999
Recorded:	August 19–21, 1998
Genre:	Post-punk
Length:	45:09
Label:	Fat Possum Records^[1]
Prev Title:	Back to the Future, or Brideshead Revisitted Revisitted
Prev Year:	1998
Next Title:	Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire
Next Year:	2002

Destroy All Human Life is a studio album by Country Teasers.^{[2] [3] [4]} It was recorded by Fred Baggs.

Critical reception

Exclaim! wrote that the album "rides the fine line between melancholy and mediocrity."^[1] SF Weekly wrote that Country Teasers' "smirking delivery reveals the lyrics to be an indiscriminate jest."^[5] The Dallas Observer wrote that Destroy All Human Life "turns down the flailing energy for a much more subdued murk owing more to mid-fi Royal Trux-y rambling than anything else."^[6]

Track listing

All songs written by B.R. Wallers except where noted

Side one

1. "Reynard the Fox" – 5:10
2. "Golden Apples" – 3:28
3. "David I Hope You Don't Mind" – 5:07
4. "Hairy Wine" – 3:30
5. "Deliverance from Misrule" (Trad. Arr. Country Teasers) – 2:22
6. "Almost Persuaded" (Billy Sherrill/Glenn Sutton) – 3:34

Side two

1. "Go Away from My Window" (Trad. Arr. Country Teasers) – 4:43
2. "Brown Jews Etc" – 4:07
3. "Women and Children First" – 4:22
4. "Come Back Maggy" – 3:13
5. "Song of the White Feather Club Secretary" – 5:33

Personnel

• B. R. Wallers - Singing & Guitar, Percussion (5)
• S. W. Stephens — Bass
• A. J. R. MacKinven — Slide & Rhythm Guitar, Charm Pet (1)
• L. Worthington — The Drums, Lead Guitar (5,10)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Country Teasers Destroy All Human Life. exclaim.ca.
2. Web site: Country Teasers | Biography & History. AllMusic.
3. Web site: The Quietus | Features | Strange World Of... | To The Future Or To The Past: The Strange World Of… The Rebel. The Quietus.
4. Web site: Country Teasers. Monica. Kendrick. Chicago Reader. 8 March 2001.
5. Web site: Reviews. March 10, 1999. SF Weekly.
6. Web site: The Country Teasers. Joe. Gross. August 19, 1999. Dallas Observer.