The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape is an album by post-hardcore noise rock band Big Black. It was released in 1987 by Touch and Go Records. The album is a CD compilation of Big Black's Atomizer album (minus the song "Strange Things"), "Heartbeat" single and Headache EP. Atomizer is pictured on the cover artwork as an eight-track tape playing in a Panasonic TNT portable player.
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Compilation album by Big Black | ||||
Released | 1987 | |||
Recorded | 1985–1987 | |||
Genre | Punk rock | |||
Length | 52:17 | |||
Label | Homestead | |||
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The title of the album, and the liner notes by Steve Albini, show the band's low regard for compact discs, drawing parallels between the 8-track tape's fall from 1970s state-of-the-art favor, presaging the outmoding of CDs by newer digital media that would arrive in subsequent decades.
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All songs written by Big Black, except where noted.
"Heartbeat" is a cover of the Wire song.
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