Half Dead and Dynamite explained

Half Dead and Dynamite
Type:	studio
Artist:	Lifter Puller
Cover:	lifterpullerhalfdeadanddynamite.gif
Recorded:	Summer 1997
Genre:	Post-punk
Length:	38:10
Label:	No Alternative
Producer:	Mike Wisti
Prev Title:	Lifter Puller
Prev Year:	1997
Next Title:	The Entertainment and Arts EP
Next Year:	1998

Half Dead and Dynamite is an album by the Minnesota indie rock band Lifter Puller, released in 1997.^{[1] [2]} The album was reissued in 2009.^[3]

Critical reception

City Pages wrote that singer Craig Finn "is a wry and bizarre punk poet, relating obscure tales of high-school depravity, boredom, and violence that unravel as teenage escape songs written from a semi-female perspective."^[4]

Track listing

1. "To Live and Die in LBI" – 3:13
2. "I Like the Lights" – 3:33
3. "Sherman City" – 3:31
4. "Naussau Coliseum" – 6:13
5. "Kool NYC" – 1:42
6. "Half Dead and Dynamite" – 3:21
7. "The Bears" – 1:55
8. "Hardware" – 2:24
9. "The Gin and the Sour Defeat" – 3:51
10. "Viceburgh" – 6:04
11. "Rock for Lite Brite" – 2:23

External links

• Archive of the official Lifter Puller discography

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lifter Puller: Lifter Puller / Half Dead And Dynamite (Deluxe Reissue) / The Entertainment And Arts (Deluxe Reissue) / Fiestas + Fiascos (Deluxe Reissue) / Slips Backwards . The A.V. Club . December 2009 . 19 November 2021.
2. News: Walsh . Jim . ALL'S WELL THAT SPINS WELL ON THE LOCAL MUSIC SCENE . St. Paul Pioneer Press . December 12, 1997 . 2F.
3. News: Snyder . Brianna . CD of the Week . Hartford Advocate . December 23, 2009 . Arts & Entertainment.
4. News: Groebner . Simon Peter . Lifter Puller / Rank Strangers . City Pages . October 29, 1997 . CD Review.