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The Body Has a Head
Studio album by
John S. Hall
Released1996
GenreAvant-garde
Length37:16
LabelManifatture Criminali
ProducerDougie Bowne, Sasha Forte, John S. Hall, Bradford Reed, Jane Scarpantoni

The Body Has a Head is an album by King Missile frontman John S. Hall, released exclusively in Germany in 1996. Though billed as a Hall "solo album," the collection features considerable input from multi-instrumentalists Sasha Forte, Bradford Reed, and Jane Scarpantoni, all of whom would become members of the next incarnation of King Missile ("King Missile III") and contribute to that group's "debut" album, 1998's Failure.

King Missile's compilation The Green Album, sold exclusively at live shows, contains all the tracks from The Body Has a Head plus fourteen live King Missile tracks and an alternate version of the song "Gay/Not Gay" from Failure.

Track listing

All lyrics by Hall.

  1. "The Bunny Who Wanted to Be a Rat" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 3:08
  2. "Punish Him" (Dougie Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 3:06
  3. "A Good Hard Look" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:16
    • This track appears in a different arrangement on Failure.
  4. "On the Metro North" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:14
    • This track first appeared on the compilation Fast Forward Sampler #2 under the band name "The Body Has a Head."
  5. "The Friendly Man" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:54
  6. "Keep Walking" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 3:37
  7. "My Lover" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:35
  8. "Wizard" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:03
  9. "A Little Restraint" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 1:22
  10. "Clamsauce" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:10
  11. "Satan" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 3:06
  12. "Freyne" (Bowne, Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 2:26
  13. "The Angel" (Forte, Hall, Scarpantoni) – 1:17
  14. "Nine Wishes" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 1:09
  15. "Prophecy" (Forte, Hall, Reed, Scarpantoni) – 3:47

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