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
ReleasedMarch 20, 2001
Recorded2000
GenreAlternative rock, grunge
Length44:56
LabelInterscope
ProducerTom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf
Toadies chronology
Rubberneck
(1994)
Hell Below/Stars Above
(2001)
Best of Toadies: Live from Paradise
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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.TitleLength
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

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.
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