Stinkfist (EP)

This article is about the Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch recording. For the Tool song, see Stinkfist.

Stinkfist
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EP by Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch
Released	1987
Recorded	Eldorado, Los Angeles (April 1, 1986) and B.C., New York (Dec 12–13, 1987)
Genre	Industrial
Length	20:39
Label	Widowspeak
Producer	Clint Ruin
J. G. Thirlwell chronology
Ramrod (1987)Ramrod1987 Stinkfist (1987) Thaw (1988)Thaw1988
Lydia Lunch chronology
Honeymoon in Red (1987) Stinkfist (1987) Drowning in Limbo (1989)

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Stinkfist is a collaborative EP from Clint Ruin (aka J. G. Thirlwell) and Lydia Lunch. This outing from the ex-Immaculate Consumptive bandmates was originally released as a 12" in 1987 on Lunch's Widowspeak label. A 1989 CD version added "The Crumb", a single by Lunch and Sonic Youth leader Thurston Moore.

Stinkfist's cover shows Lunch and Ruin—lovers at the time—in a coital embrace. Sleeve Design Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch - Photographs by Wim van de Hulst - Lettering by Robert Williams

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin, except "The Crumb" co-written by Thurston Moore. 

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Stinkfist"	6:57

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Meltdown Oratorio" (I: The Reckoning/II: The Crack/III: The Meltdown)	8:55
2.	"Son of Stink"	3:47

CD issue
No.	Title	Length
4.	"The Crumb"	5:39

Personnel and Production

"Stinkfist" and "Son of Stink":

• Cliff Martinez – drums & metal
• DJ Bonebrake – Drums & metal
• Neil – Drums & metal
• Spit Stix – Drums & metal
• Tom Surgal – Metal
• Roli Mosimann – Timbales, engineering
• Lydia Lunch – Voices & metal
• Clint Ruin – Voices & metal
• Randy Burns – Engineering
• Hahn Rowe – Engineering

"Meltdown Oratorio":

• Lydia Lunch – Voices
• Clint Ruin – Instruments
• Martin Bisi – Engineering

"The Crumb":

• Thurston Moore – guitars, voice
• Lydia Lunch – Voice
• Clint Ruin – Loops, treatments, production
• Bass/drums - "grafted and transplanted from eternity." Bass and drums are reworked from Lydia Lunch's "Dead in the Head" on her Honeymoon in Red album. Though uncredited, the original performance is by Ruin.
• Martin Bisi – Engineering

Charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position
UK Indie Chart	18

External links

• Stinkfist at Discogs (list of releases)
• Stinkfist at foetus.org