Hell Below/Stars Above

Hell Below/Stars Above
Studio album by Toadies
Released March 20, 2001
Recorded 2000
Genre Alternative rock, grunge
Length 44:56
Label Interscope
Producer Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf
Toadies chronology
Rubberneck
(1994)Rubberneck1994		 Hell Below/Stars Above
(2001)		 Best of Toadies: Live from Paradise
(2002)Best of Toadies: Live from Paradise2002
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Austin Chronicle[2]
CMJ(favorable)[3]
Rolling Stone

Hell Below/Stars Above is the second album by the American alternative rock band Toadies. After Interscope Records rejected the Toadies's first attempt at a second album (otherwise known as the Feeler sessions), Hell Below/Stars Above was a second attempt at a follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut Rubberneck. This album featured several songs from the Feeler sessions, although all of the tracks were completely re-recorded.

Hell Below/Stars Above was completed more than a year before its release on Interscope Records in March 2001. The Toadies broke up shortly after its release due to internal conflicts within the band. They rejoined in 2008, without bass guitarist Lisa Umbarger, to record a new album, No Deliverance.

Two more songs were recorded as b-sides, both of which were originally part of the Feeler sessions. "Joey, Let's Go" was released on a Monitor This! compilation and "Waterfall" was not officially released.

Track listing

All tracks written by Vaden Todd Lewis.

No.TitleLength
1."Plane Crash"2:10
2."Push the Hand"3:37
3."Little Sin"3:07
4."Motivational"2:45
5."Heel"2:46
6."You'll Come Down"3:22
7."Pressed Against the Sky"4:33
8."What We Have We Steal"3:31
9."Jigsaw Girl"4:44
10."Sweetness"4:13
11."Hell Below/Stars Above"4:20
12."Doll Skin"5:45

Personnel

Chart positions

Album

Year Album Chart Position
2001 Hell Below / Stars Above The Billboard 200 130

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
2001 "Push the Hand" Mainstream Rock Tracks 34

References

  1. ↑ "Hell Below/Stars Below - Toadies". Allmusic.
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050312090129/http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-03-16/music_recviews14.html. Archived from the original on March 12, 2005. Retrieved April 5, 2005. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050507111340/http://www.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=30342. Archived from the original on May 7, 2005. Retrieved April 20, 2005. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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