Dig A Hole / I Hope You Die
"Dig a Hole" / "I Hope You Die" is a cassette single self-released by the Toadies on November 1, 1990 on an IEC Type I compact cassette tape sold exclusively at the Camp Bowie Sound Warehouse in Fort Worth and at live shows between 1990-1992. Of all the Toadies material, this release displays the strongest Pixies resemblance, with Kim Deal remarking after she heard "Dig a Hole" that, "It sounds like us!" The song is built on a simple recurring bass line and power chords and contains the memorable line, "Like pervert's words, I'm strung together/to make some pervert God feel better." The B-side details the end result of an imagined intimate relationship between Todd Lewis and Edie Brickell, a Dallas native singer whose national celebrity was near its all-time high.
Produced by Todd Lewis. Engineered by Keith Rust at Crystal Clear Sound, Dallas, Texas. Songs © Todd Lewis. Cover illustration by Dan Lightner. Sleeve design by Caren Lane. Some copies of this cassette were affixed with hand-cut stickers featuring two contact telephone numbers for booking purposes. The cassette's single-sided paper label was printed with a dot matrix thermal printer.
Read more about Dig A Hole / I Hope You Die: Track Listing, Personnel
Famous quotes containing the words dig a, dig, hole, hope and/or die:
“Prepare your silken coat before it rains, and dont wait until you are thirsty to dig a well.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I am against nature. I dont dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature cant touch with decay.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“Someone had literally run to earth
In an old cellar hole in a byroad
The origin of all the family there.
Thence they were sprung, so numerous a tribe
That now not all the houses left in town
Made shift to shelter them without the help
Of here and there a tent in grove and orchard.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“If you watch a game, its fun. If you play it, its recreation. If you work at it, its golf.”
—Bob Hope (b. 1903)
“To be born in a new country one has to die in the motherland.”
—Irina Mogilevskaya, Russian student. Immigrating to the U.S., student paper in an English as a Second Language class, Hunter College, 1995.