| Pigpile | ||||
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| Released | October 5, 1992 | |||
| Recorded | July 24, 1987 | |||
| Venue | Clarendon Hotel Ballroom, Hammersmith, London | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 46:02 | |||
| Label | Touch and Go | |||
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Pigpile is a live album by the American musical group Big Black. It is a recording from July 24, 1987 during the post-hardcore band's final European tour, released in 1992 originally as a VHS tape (it was their second video release, following the 'Live' tape on Atavistic Records). It was later issued as an audio-only LP/cassette/CD. The recordings were made at the Hammersmith Clarendon ballroom, London. A 5" transparent heavy-duty vinyl record was included away free with all copies of the VHS tape and some copies of the soundtrack album, featuring a cover version of the Mary Jane Girls song "In My House". Lower-quality recordings from the Hammersmith concert had previously appeared in a different configuration on the bootleg LP Tonight We Walked With Giants.
Pigpile coincided with the re-release of Big Black's entire catalog on Touch and Go Records. A limited edition of Pigpile was issued as a box set that included the LP and its insert, a VHS tape of the Hammersmith concert, the "In My House" one-sided 5" single, a poster and a Big Black T-shirt.[1]
- ^ Bashe, Patricia Romanowski; Pareles, Jon; George-Warren, Holly, eds. (2001). Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Touchstone. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7432-0120-9.