Body Blow

Body Blow
1991 album cover
Studio album by
Headless Chickens
Released1991, rereleased 1993
GenreRock, industrial
LabelFlying Nun Records
ProducerRex Visible, Michael Koppelman
Headless Chickens chronology
Stunt Clown
(1988) 		Body Blow
(1991) 		Greedy
(1997)
Alternative cover
1993 Australian version
Singles from Body Blow
  1. "Gaskrankinstation" / "Crash Hot"
    Released: 1990
  2. "Cruise Control"
    Released: 1991
  3. "Donde esta la pollo"
    Released: 1992
  4. "Juice" / "Choppers"
    Released: 1992
  5. "Mr. Moon"
    Released: 1993

Body Blow is the second studio album by New Zealand rock band the Headless Chickens. It was originally released in 1991, then rereleased for Australia in 1993 with a substantially reworked track list, losing "Crash Hot" and "Road Train" but gaining "Mr. Moon", "Juice", "Choppers" and some remixes.[1] Another Australian version followed in 1994 with the addition of a bonus disc containing six remixes.[2]

Body Blow is Headless Chickens' most successful album, including three top-10 singles and achieving double platinum sales.[3] The album includes a cover of "Inside Track", originally recorded as "The Inside Track" by New Zealand new wave band Stridulators.[4][5]

Reviewed in Rolling Stone Australia, the first single, "Gaskrankinstation", was noted for its inability to be categorised. It was described as a "tragic saga of a callous fool trapped in a dumb job and a loveless marriage. The tempo builds inexorably with the sense of an impending catastrophe."[6]

On 29 March 2019, an extended version was reissued.[7]

  1. ^ "Headless Chickens". Flying Nun. Archived from the original on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  2. ^ "Headless Chickens - Body Blow". Discogs. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Headless Chickens". NZ Charts.
  4. ^ "Headless Chickens - Inside Track". YouTube. 8 May 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Stridulators – Queue / The Inside Track". Discogs. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  6. ^ Demetrius, Mark (July 1990). "Honey Steel's Gold Ed Kuepper". Rolling Stone Australia. No. 446. Sydney, NSW: Tilmond Pty Ltd. p. 105.
  7. ^ "Headless Chickens and Flying Nun Records announce Body Blow reissue". Stuff Limited. Retrieved 3 April 2019.