Irresistible Bliss


Irresistible Bliss was Soul Coughing's second studio album, released in 1996. The band initially planned for Tchad Blake, producer of their first album Ruby Vroom, to produce the album, but the death of a family member in a car accident caused Blake to take a hiatus. Over the objections of his bandmates and his record label, Slash Records/Warner Bros., frontman Mike Doughty hired producer David Kahne ; he was intent on following up the wild sonics of Ruby Vroom with a tightly wound, trembly, New Wave–inspired record.
The tracking, at Manhattan's Power Station recording studio, was complete in eleven days, and Doughty was jubilant at the results. Doughty tapped Steve Fisk to produce the tune "Unmarked Helicopters" for The X-Files soundtrack Songs in the Key of X.
All of Irresistible Blisss songs were produced by Kahne, except tracks 2 and 6 and track 12 by the band themselves. The mixing process split the tracks between three mixers: Kahne, Chris Shaw, and Ruby producer Tchad Blake, who intervened when bass player Sebastian Steinberg briefly quit the band.
Irresistible Bliss yielded a hit single for Soul Coughing, "Super Bon Bon". "Soft Serve" and "Soundtrack to Mary" also received some selective radio airplay.
"Super Bon Bon" was used in the soundtrack to racing video game Gran Turismo 2 and the song "Disseminated" was formerly used on the Ford Transit advert across Summer 2006. "Super Bon Bon" was also used during a car theft scene in the fifth-season finale of . Also used in ABC show Castle season 4 episode 8 as well as NBC The Blacklist season 6 episode 2

Track listing

All songs by Doughty/Soul Coughing.
  1. "Super Bon Bon" – 3:31
  2. "Soft Serve" – 3:12
  3. "White Girl" – 2:37
  4. "Soundtrack to Mary" – 3:06
  5. "Lazybones" – 4:48
  6. "4 Out of 5" – 3:12
  7. "Paint" – 2:55
  8. "Disseminated" – 2:41
  9. "Collapse" – 3:06
  10. "Sleepless" – 4:50
  11. "The Idiot Kings" – 3:57
  12. "How Many Cans?" – 4:24
  13. "Lemon Lime"
  14. "Blow My Only"
Additional CD with Japanese release
  1. "Super Bon Bon"
  2. "Mr. Bitterness"
  3. "White Girl"
  4. "Lazybones"
  5. "Super Bon Bon"

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