Eight Arms to Hold You is the second studio album by Veruca Salt. It was released on February 11, 1997, through Outpost and Geffen Records. The album was produced by Bob Rock. The title is a reference to the working title for The Beatles‘ film eventually titled Help!.
Eight Arms to Hold You peaked at number 55 on the Billboard 200. The single “Volcano Girls”, written by Nina Gordon, was a rock radio hit. Veruca Salt performed “Shutterbug”, written by Louise Post, on Saturday Night Live. Besides those two, there were three other singles released from the album: “Benjamin”, “The Morning Sad”, and “Straight”.
This was the last album to feature all of the original band members: Gordon, Post, Steve Lack, and Jim Shapiro, until the 2015 album Ghost Notes.
Tracklist:
- Straight (Louise Post)
- Volcano Girls (Nina Gordon)
- Don’t Make Me Prove It (Post)
- Awesome (Gordon)
- One Last Time (Post)
- With David Bowie (Gordon)
- Benjamin (Gordon)
- Shutterbug (Post)
- The Morning Sad (Gordon)
- Sound of the Bell (Post)
- Loneliness Is Worse (Gordon)
- Stoneface (Gordon)
- Venus Man Trap (Post)
- Earthcrosser (Gordon)
Veruca Salt
Nina Gordon: guitar, vocals
Louise Post: guitar, vocals
Jim Shapiro: guitar, drums, backing vocals
Steve Lack: bass guitar, guitar
Additional personnel
Jim McGillveray: percussion
Zach Ingraham: whiteboard
Bob Rock: producer
Randy Staub: engineer, mixing
Brian Dobbs: engineer
Mike Cusick: assistant engineer
Jim Labinski: assistant engineer
Jeff Lane: assistant engineer, mixing assistant
Darren Grahn: assistant engineer
George Marino: mastering
Mike Gilles: digital editing, assistant engineer, digital programming
