La Mano Cornuda Explained

La Mano Cornuda
Type:	Album
Artist:	Supersuckers
Cover:	Supersuckers-La Mano Cornuda (album cover).jpg
Released:	March 15, 1994
Recorded:	Egg Studios, Seattle, Washington in November 1993
Genre:	Rock
Label:	Sub Pop^[1]
Producer:	Conrad Uno
Prev Title:	The Smoke of Hell
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers
Next Year:	1995

La Mano Cornuda is the second studio album by the American rock and roll band Supersuckers.^{[2] [3]} It was released on March 1, 1994 on Sub Pop. The title is Spanish for the horned hand, a reference to the hand sign often seen at rock and roll shows.^[4]

Critical reception

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music deemed the album "hard rocking songs about hard drinking hard men." Trouser Press wrote that "Conrad Uno’s production doesn’t raise [Jack] Endino’s blinding gleam, but the effect is salutary, allowing the band to indulge its naturally wanton slop-rock instincts to great hairy effect."^[5] Eric Davidson, author of We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001, considered it perhaps the band's "best all-around record."^[6]

Track listing

1. "Creepy Jackalope Eye"
2. "Seventeen Poles"
3. "High Ya!"
4. "On the Couch"
5. "Clueless
6. "Sugie"
7. "Mudhead"
8. "Gold Top"
9. "How to Maximize Your Kill Count"
10. "I Was Born Without a Spine"
11. "Glad Damn Glad"
12. "She's My Bitch"
13. "The Schmooze"

Notes

• The third track, "High Ya!", begins with an answering machine message from Matt Lukin of Mudhoney informing Eddie Spaghetti of his intended whereabouts the following night and intimating that he will be "holding".
• The final listed track, "The Schmooze", consists of an answering machine message from Sub Pop producer Jack Endino for Eddie Spaghetti in which the former tries to convince the latter to put him on the guest list for an upcoming show that Supersuckers are playing with Mudhoney.
• A final unlisted track contains the entire album, a second time.

Notes and References

1. Web site: La Mano Cornuda. Sub Pop Records.
2. Web site: Supersuckers | Biography & History. AllMusic.
3. Web site: The Raw Essence. February 22, 1996. Los Angeles Times.
4. Web site: Supersuckers. Gray. Chris. Riverfront Times.
5. Web site: Supersuckers . Trouser Press . 28 January 2021.
6. Book: Davidson . Eric . We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001 . 2010 . Backbeat Books.