Shakespeare My Butt

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Shakespeare My Butt...
Studio album by The Lowest of the Low
Released 1991
Recorded 1991
Genre Indie rock
Length 64:25
Label Page Publications
Producer Andy Koyama
Professional reviews
The Lowest of the Low chronology
Shakespeare My Butt
(1991)		 Hallucigenia
(1994)

Shakespeare My Butt... is a 1991 album by The Lowest of the Low.

At the time of its release, the album was the best-selling independent release in Canadian history, although its record was brief: it was eclipsed later the same year by Barenaked Ladies' The Yellow Tape.

The album's melodic, jangly folk-punk has made it an enduring classic of Canadian music. In Chart's three Best Canadian Albums of All Time polls, Shakespeare My Butt... is one of just six albums to have ranked in the top ten all three times. John K. Samson of The Weakerthans wrote the album's blurb in the 2005 poll, citing it as a major influence on his own music.

British author John Donoghue's 2004 book Shakespeare My Butt!, a humorous travel memoir of quirky destinations in Great Britain, also took its name from the album; Donoghue acknowledges the band's influence in the book, and the cover features a blindfolded image of William Shakespeare in homage to the blindfolded band photo on the album cover.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Ron Hawkins, except where noted.

  1. "Four O'Clock Stop" – 3:28
  2. "So Long Bernie" – 3:55
  3. "Just About 'The Only' Blues" – 4:29
  4. "Salesmen, Cheats and Liars" – 3:28
  5. "Rosy and Grey" – 5:03
  6. "Kinda the Lonely One" – 2:51
  7. "Eternal Fatalist" – 3:28
  8. "For the Hand of Magdalena" – 3:35
  9. "Subversives" – 3:14
  10. "Bleed a Little While Tonight" – 5:17
  11. "Bloodline" (Stephen Stanley) – 3:43
  12. "St. Brendan's Way" – 4:10
  13. "Letter from Bilbao" – 2:08
  14. "Under the Carlaw Bridge" – 4:11
  15. "The Taming of Carolyn" – 4:16
  16. "Gossip Talkin' Blues" – 3:25
  17. "Henry Needs a New Pair of Shoes" – 3:44