Wholesale Meats and Fish explained

Wholesale Meats and Fish
Type:	Album
Artist:	Letters to Cleo
Cover:	Letters_to_Cleo_-_Wholesale_Meats_and_Fish.jpg
Released:	August 1, 1995
Genre:	Alternative rock
Length:	44:41
Label:	Giant^[1]
Producer:	Mike Denneen
Prev Title:	Aurora Gory Alice
Prev Year:	1993
Next Title:	Go!
Next Year:	1997

Wholesale Meats and Fish is the second album by the alternative rock band Letters to Cleo, released in 1995.^{[2] [3]} The first single was "Awake".^[4]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "'Little Rosa', the album's highlight, is '60s-influenced jangle-pop genius."^[5]

Entertainment Weekly opined that "too often singer Kay Hanley sounds like a petulant Juliana Hatfield on their soapy, overdramatic love songs."

The New York Times compared the album to its predecessor, calling it "the same alt-rock in a different package". It said that, while Hanley's "bright, clear delivery often lifts Letters to Cleo above college-band status, her happiness can become wearing".^[6]

Track listing

All songs by Kay Hanley and Letters to Cleo.

1. "Demon Rock" – 3:24
2. "Fast Way" – 3:59
3. "Jennifer" – 5:10
4. "Awake" – 3:55
5. "Laudanum" – 4:00
6. "Acid Jed" – 3:02
7. "Pizza Cutter" – 4:02
8. "St. Peter" – 4:13
9. "Little Rosa" – 3:07
10. "Do What You Want, Yeah" – 2:51
11. "He's Got an Answer" – 3:49
12. "I Could Sleep (The Wuss Song)" – 3:09

Chart positions

Album

• 1995 Wholesale Meats and Fish The Billboard 200 No. 188^[7]
• 1995 Wholesale Meats and Fish Heatseekers No. 11

Singles

• 1995 Awake The Billboard Hot 100 No. 88
• 1995 Awake Modern Rock Tracks No. 17

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cellars by Starlight - Part 1. bostonphoenix.com.
2. Web site: Letters to Cleo Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
3. Web site: Letters To Cleo Play Themselves Out: Wake-Up Video. https://web.archive.org/web/20180512181637/http://www.mtv.com/news/2578495/letters-to-cleo-video/. dead. May 12, 2018. MTV News.
4. Web site: Letters to Cleo Albums :: NoiseTrade :: Paste Magazine. www.pastemagazine.com.
5. Web site: Letters to Cleo . Trouser Press . 24 June 2022.
6. Sherr, Sara (August 25, 1995). "Letters to Cleo: 'Wholesale Meats and Fish'". New York Times News Service. The Charlotte Observer. p. 7F.
7. Rosen . Craig . Letters To Cleo 'Go!' for a breakthrough . Billboard . Sep 6, 1997 . 109 . 36 . 13, 118.