Hell Below/Stars Above (original) (raw)

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Hell Below/Stars Above is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Toadies, released on March 20, 2001, by Interscope Records. It is the first Toadies album to feature lead guitarist Clark Vogeler, who joined in 1996, and the band's first album in seven years following the release of their platinum-selling debut album Rubberneck (1994). The Toadies first attempt at a follow-up to Rubberneck, tentatively known as Feeler, was recorded in early 1998, but was scrapped after Interscope rejected the album. Hell Below/Stars Above was subsequently conceived as a second attempt at a follow-up album in early 2000, amidst a turbulent time for the band, marked by a number of financial and legal issues. In comparison to the Toadies' previous work, Hell Below/Stars Above was less aggressive and featured more polished production, and was more stylistically varied due to the album's differing song writing process, which saw all bandmembers contribute in contrast to being written solely by the band's frontman, Vaden Todd Lewis. Hell Below/Stars Above received mixed reviews from critics and was a significant commercial failure upon release, with the album only reaching number 130 on the Billboard 200 chart and selling less than a tenth of Rubberneck's sales, primarily due to Interscope's complete lack of promotional support for the album. The album's poor performance led to growing tensions within the band, eventually culminating in the departure of founding bassist Lisa Umbarger from the band four months after the album's release and the dissolution of the band shortly thereafter, which lasted until 2006. (en)

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Vaden Todd Lewis and Clark Vogeler (en)

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the Toadies, except where noted (en)

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featuring Elliott Smith (en)

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"The main thing is that after The Feeler Sessions, we just kept writing instead of giving up and going, 'This isn't going to happen.' We did the thing we did best; we just went in and kept working. And we did a lot of things [on Hell Below/Stars Above] that we've never done before, things we would've considered a risk before. But after all those things had happened to us, who cared? We were ready to gamble." (en)
"I had a conversation with someone at the label, an insider who shall remain nameless, and found out they had no intention of doing anything else for the record... When I found out they weren't going to do another single, that it was going to sit there, it looked gloomy, and I have things that looked brighter. I wanted to get out while I still had air in my lungs." (en)

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Bassist Lisa Umbarger explaining her departure from the Toadies. (en)
Lisa Umbarger on the album's writing and recording process. (en)

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Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California (en)

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Sweetness (en)
Heel (en)
Hell Below / Stars Above (en)
Little Sin (en)
Motivational (en)
Plane Crash (en)
Push the Hand (en)
Doll Skin (en)
Jigsaw Girl (en)
Pressed Against the Sky (en)
What We Have We Steal (en)
You'll Come Down (en)

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Hell Below/Stars Above is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Toadies, released on March 20, 2001, by Interscope Records. It is the first Toadies album to feature lead guitarist Clark Vogeler, who joined in 1996, and the band's first album in seven years following the release of their platinum-selling debut album Rubberneck (1994). (en)

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