Total System Failure (2000)

Juliana's Pony

  1. White Thrash
  2. Metal Fume Fever
  3. Houseboy
  4. Road Wrath
  5. Let's Get Married
  6. Breeders
  7. My Protégée
  8. Total System Failure
  9. The Victim
  10. Using You
  11. Leather Pants
  12. Noblesse Oblige
  13. Ten Foot Pole

Juliana rocks out.

Released simultaneously with the sublime Beautiful Creature, Total System Failure is the guitar rock one.

Borne out of a desire to express the darker side of her lyrics with equally representative dark music, and perhaps a reaction to her return to Boston reflecting on the experiences of L.A.

"Metal fume fever is the name of an actual illness. When I first heard the term, in passing, I thought, “I have to use that as a song title. It rocks!” I knew next to nothing about the illness, then. All I knew was that hearing those words conjured up nightmarish images in my head, and those images were what I wrote about. In protest. It’s a protest song."

(excerpt from Juliana's blog on "Metal Fume Fever" - July 2008)

Personnel

Juliana Hatfield – guitar, vocals
Zephan Courtney – drums
Mikey Welsh – bass, backing vocals


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