Eight Arms to Hold You by Veruca Salt

Eight Arms to Hold You, Veruca Salt's second album, landed on Outpost/Geffen on February 11, 1997, three years after "Seether" and American Thighs made the Chicago band's name. The title nods to the Beatles, borrowing the working title of the film that became Help!, and the sessions took an unlikely detour: producer Bob Rock hauled his gear into a house in Haʻikū, Hawaii, and the band loved it so much he turned part of his home into a studio, with extra work done in Chicago and Vancouver.

What came out is heavy and polished, Nina Gordon and Louise Post stacking guitars and voices over Steve Lack's bass and Jim Shapiro's drums. Gordon's "Volcano Girls" became the rock radio hit, and Post's "Shutterbug" got an airing on Saturday Night Live. It was the last record by the four founders until Ghost Notes in 2015; by 1998 Post was the only one left.

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