Grotto of Miracles
Studio album by
Sun City Girls
Released1986 (1986)
RecordedApril 1985 (1985-04)
StudioRadical Recording, Tempe, AZ
GenreExperimental rock, psychedelic rock
Length42:40
LabelPlacebo PLA-19[1]
Sun City Girls chronology
Sun City Girls
(1984)		 Grotto of Miracles
(1986)		 Horse Cock Phepner
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Spin Alternative Record Guide8/10[4]

Grotto of Miracles is the second studio album by American experimental rock band Sun City Girls.[5][6] It was released in 1986 by Placebo Records.[7] Like many Sun City Girls LPs, Grotto of Miracles has become a collector's item.[8]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "With demented lyrical concepts and such offbeat accessories as antelope bells, chimes and temple blocks, Grotto of Miracles is an ethnic stew that shows enormous creative growth."[7] The Chicago Reader wrote that the band's "wiggy instrumentals were flavored by surf rock, jazz, and noise, and would give way to pummeling art rock, nonsensical rants, and meandering improvisation."[9] Perfect Sound Forever praised the "beautiful, Rick [Bishop]-heavy, unusually near-accessible first side."[10] Maximum Rocknroll called the album "very musical, poetic, downright pretty, distinctively ugly, the great acid experience or background music."[11]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sun City Girls, except "Kal el Lazi Kad Ham", which is a traditional arrangement

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Radio Morocco"5:00
2."Different Kind of Whore"4:24
3."In a Lesbian Meadow"2:17
4."Swing of Kings"2:05
5."Damcar"2:40
6."Kal el Lazi Kad Ham"5:28
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Black Weather Shoes"1:13
2."Mama's Milk (Too Dry)"1:00
3."The Spice Nest"5:17
4."Frankincense and Fish"4:00
5."The Mystery of Death"3:15
6."Ask Heem (202 456 7369)"4:50
7."It's My Old Friend the Future"1:16

Personnel

Adapted from the Grotto of Miracles liner notes.[12]

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1986 Placebo LP PLA-19

References

  1. ↑ Blush, Steven; Petros, George (October 19, 2010). American Hardcore (Second Edition): A Tribal History. Feral House. ISBN 9781932595987 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Sun City Girls: Grotto of Miracles > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 841.
  4. ↑ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 385.
  5. ↑ Buckley, Peter (January 25, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "Sun City Girls raid the vaults and ready a new compilation of singles and rarities". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  7. 1 2 Robbins, Ira; Sprague, David (2007). "Sun City Girls". Trouser Press. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  8. ↑ Armstrong, Gene. "The Music Lives". Tucson Weekly.
  9. ↑ Margasak, Peter. "Sun City Girls". Chicago Reader.
  10. ↑ "Sun City Girls". www.furious.com.
  11. ↑ "Grotto of Miracles LP".
  12. ↑ Grotto of Miracles (sleeve). Phoenix, Arizona: Placebo Records. 1986.
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