Hell Below/Stars Above

Hell Below/Stars Above is the second album by the American alternative rock band Toadies. After Interscope Records rejected the Toadies's first attempt at a second album (otherwise known as the Feeler sessions), Hell Below/Stars Above was a second attempt at a follow-up to their 1994 debut album Rubberneck.

Hell Below/Stars Above
Studio album by Toadies
Released	March 20, 2001
Recorded	2000
Genre	Alternative rock, grunge
Length	44:56
Label	Interscope
Producer	Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf
Toadies chronology
Rubberneck (1994) Hell Below/Stars Above (2001) Best of Toadies: Live from Paradise (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Austin Chronicle	[2]
CMJ	(favorable)[3]

Five songs from the Feeler sessions were re-recorded during the sessions for Hell Below/Stars Above, with "Push the Hand", "Best of Three" (as "What We Have We Steal") and "Dollskin" included on Hell Below/Stars Above, while "Joey, Let's Go" was later released on a compilation CD and "Waterfall" was never officially released.

Hell Below/Stars Above was completed in March 2001, more than a year before its release on Interscope Records. The Toadies broke up shortly after its release due to internal conflicts, not regrouping until 2008.

Track listing

All tracks written by Vaden Todd Lewis.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Plane Crash"	2:10
2.	"Push the Hand"	3:37
3.	"Little Sin"	3:07
4.	"Motivational"	2:45
5.	"Heel"	2:46
6.	"You'll Come Down"	3:22
7.	"Pressed Against the Sky"	4:33
8.	"What We Have We Steal"	3:31
9.	"Jigsaw Girl"	4:44
10.	"Sweetness"	4:13
11.	"Hell Below/Stars Above"	4:20
12.	"Doll Skin"	5:45

Personnel

• Todd Lewis - guitar/vocals
• Mark Reznicek - drums/percussion
• Lisa Umbarger - bass
• Clark Vogeler - guitar/piano
• Elliott Smith - piano (on "Hell Below / Stars Above")
• Tom Rothrock - producer
• Rob Schnapf - producer
• Monique Mizrahi - engineer
• Andy Wallace - mixing
• Howie Weinberg - mastering
• f-stop fitzgerald, inc. - cover image (from the book Pillars of the Almighty)
• Marina Chavez - photography
• Chris Bilheimer - art direction and back cover image

Chart positions

Album

Year	Album	Chart	Position
2001	Hell Below / Stars Above	The Billboard 200	130

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2001	"Push the Hand"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	34

References

1. Morgenstein, Mark (2001). "Toadies: Hell Below/Stars Below". Allmusic. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
2. Gray, Christopher (2001-03-16). "Acts Playing South by Southwest: Toadies". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on March 12, 2005. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
3. Comer, M. Tye (2001). "TOADIES: Hell Below/Stars Above". CMJ. Archived from the original on 2005-05-07. Retrieved 2020-04-18.