Suicide (1977 album)

Suicide
A white square shape featuring the a red star at the top center. Below the word Suicide is written diagonally across with blood seeping from it.
Studio album by
Suicide
ReleasedDecember 28, 1977 (1977-12-28)
StudioUltima Sound (Blauvelt, NY)
Genre
Length32:07
LabelRed Star
Producer
Suicide chronology
Suicide
(1977) 		21½ Minutes in Berlin/23 Minutes in Brussels
(1978)
Singles from Suicide
  1. "Johnny"
    Released: 1977
  2. "Cheree"
    Released: May 1978

Suicide is the debut studio album from the American rock band Suicide. It was released in 1977 on Red Star Records and produced by Craig Leon and Marty Thau. The album was recorded in four days at Ultima Sound Studios in New York and featured Martin Rev's minimalist electronics and harsh, repetitive rhythms paired with Alan Vega's rock and roll-inspired vocals and depictions of urban life.

Upon its initial release, Suicide was greeted with some favorable reception from the UK press, but was universally panned in the United States, where it failed to chart. However, the album would soon be regarded as a milestone in electronic and rock music. In 2013, Pitchfork named Suicide one of the greatest albums of the 1970s, while in 2012 and 2020, Rolling Stone ranked it as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[1] The album also influenced artists in various genres, including Bruce Springsteen, the Fleshtones, Spacemen 3,[2] and Peaches.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference 500-greatest was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Spacemen 3—Just Say Gulp". Conflict. No. 48. Summer 1988.