1000 Hurts

"Prayer to God" redirects here. Not to be confused with Pray to God.

1000 Hurts
Studio album by Shellac
Released	August 8, 2000
Recorded	1998–1999
Genre	Noise rock post-hardcore math rock
Length	36:51
Label	Touch & Go
Producer	Shellac
Shellac chronology
Terraform (1998) 1000 Hurts (2000) Excellent Italian Greyhound (2007)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Great Rock Discography	8/10[3]
The Guardian	[4]
NME	[5]
OndaRock	6.5/10[6]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[7]
Rock Hard	8.5/10[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[10]

1000 Hurts is the third studio album by American rock band Shellac, released on August 8, 2000. In its official promotional materials Shellac jokingly described this album as follows: "There are no 12-minute songs on this one. This record is more mean-spirited. Todd sings."

The cover is a clear homage to old Ampex audio recording tape boxes. The band are known for using analog tape for their recordings, and are fans of Ampex tape and tape recorders. Also, the speech at the start of the record is a variation on the announcements one would hear on Magnetic Reference Laboratory's calibration tapes for analog tape recorders. The title refers to one-thousand Hertz (rendered 1000 Hz), a measure used in audio recording describing a sine wave cycling 1,000 times per second.

The album was named Rockfeedback magazine's record of the decade.^[11] Jehnny Beth of Savages-fame named the album one of her biggest influences, saying that it had made her "want to be a bassist" & inspired her ideas of recording music.^[12]

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Prayer to God"	2:50
2.	"Squirrel Song"	2:38
3.	"Mama Gina"	5:43
4.	"QRJ"	2:52
5.	"Ghosts"	3:36

Side B

No.	Title	Length
6.	"Song Against Itself"	4:13
7.	"Canaveral"	2:38
8.	"New Number Order"	1:39
9.	"Shoe Song"	5:17
10.	"Watch Song"	5:25

Personnel

• Shellac:
  • Steve Albini – guitar, vocals
  • Todd Trainer – drums, vocals
  • Bob Weston – bass, vocals
• Bill Skibbe – tape operator
• Rob Bochnik – tape operator
• Greg Norman – tape operator
• John Loder – mastering
• Steve Rooke – mastering

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2000	Top Heatseekers	49

References

1. Kellman, Andy. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
2. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
3. Martin C. Strong (2002). The Great Rock Discography (6th ed.). Canongate Books. ISBN 978-1-84195-312-0. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
4. "Hurts so good | the Guardian | guardian.co.uk". TheGuardian.com.
5. "NME Album Reviews - 1000 Hurts". Nme.Com. 2000-08-04. Retrieved 2011-09-03.
6. Tobia D’Onofrio. "Shellac". OndaRock. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
7. [1] Archived October 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
8. "SHELLAC - 1000 Hurts".
9. [2] Archived May 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
10. Shellac. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. 2004. ISBN 9780743201698. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
11. Rockfeedback Records of the Decade – #25-1 Rockfeedback.com, THOMAS HANNAN, December 2009
12. Pinnock, Tom (2020). My Life In Music - Jehnny Beth. London: Uncut. p. 118.