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Studio album featuring new, polished recordings. Re-released on Sugar Hill Sessions CD.

Release Info
Cover Art
Band Memoirs

Release Info

Tracks

Mahogany
Augmented Love
Two Years Ago
Not Mad, Just Sad
Let's Take a Walk
New House
Yellow Wagon
Lovely Memories
Kill Me Hot Chocolate

Kar – vocals and synthesizer
Mr. Ed – guitar, backing vocals, and bass
Ran – keyboard, bass, and backing vocals
Spike – drums and backing vocals

Recorded 8/8/89 and mixed 8/9/89 at Sugar Hill Recording Studios, Houston, TX. Engineered by J.R. Griffith. Produced by The Blanks.
©1989 The Blanks.

1989: First issue, cassette, Blanks Enterprises
1998: All tracks re-released on the Sugar Hill Sessions compact disc.
2008: All tracks remastered and reissued on the Sugar Hill Sessions compact disc, Blanks Enterprises.

Cover Art

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KMHC Digital Art

KMHC Original Tape Cover

Sugar Hill Sessions 2008 CD

Sugar Hill Sessions 2008 CD liner notes

Sugar Hill Sessions 2008 CD label

Sugar Hill Sessions 1998 CD

Band Memoirs

This album surpassed all previous records of popularity for The Blanks. We took about half new songs and half of the songs from Put on the Featherhead that we felt would benefit most from some studio magic, and made the album.

Deciding what songs to put on this album caused the first Mr. Ed era disagreement in the band. Mr. Ed walked out of the room when Kar, Ran, and I didn't want to re-do “Peace on Earth.” The song was one of Mr. Ed's favorites, and mine as well... I think the same could be said for all of us. We just felt that the song wouldn't be improved by doing a new version and that it held up well as it was. Things eventually got worked out, and we went in to record. The version of “Let's Take a Walk” that appears on the album is terrific but different than we had intended. Top quality recording studios were still new to us, and we misunderstood just what could and couldn't be done, thus the overall tone of the song is slightly different than we had in mind when we entered the studio.

It's interesting to note that this album was 9 songs recorded on 8-9-89, and Bean Monster Rituals was 8 songs recorded on 8-8-88. I'll let those familiar with solstices and numerology attach whatever significance they want to the dates. Though by listening to the albums it's obvious that we had tapped into some universal “good.”

The name Kill Me Hot Chocolate comes from a ridiculous card game that we had made up with a few other friends of ours.

– Spike