Needle in a Slunk Stack

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Needle in a Slunk Stack is the twenty-eighth studio album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead. It was announced on September 24th 2009 on TDRSMusic.com, It's name is a play on the popular saying "Needle in a Hay Stack".

It follows the style of Forensic Follies, as it uses a technique known as Xenochrony which means he uses recycled beats and riffs from his previous albums, including Inbred Mountain, The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock, Slaughterhouse on the Prairie, and Island of Lost Minds.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Needle in a Slunk Stack"	4:10
2.	"Interview with the Double Man"	4:09
3.	"Carcass Cable"	2:46
4.	"Next Stop, the Shell"	2:07
5.	"Distilled Scalp"	4:57
6.	"Furnace"	3:19
7.	"Mego Frankenstein"	2:59
8.	"Alpha Sea"	2:32
9.	"Wormwood's Workshop Part 1"	3:25
10.	"Pythagorus Sled"	1:01
11.	"Slunk Smuggler"	1:57
12.	"Wormwood's Workshop Part 2"	4:11
13.	"Astral Traveler"	3:08
Total length:		40:41

Notes

• Track 2, "Interview with the Double Man", is a reference to the song "Revenge of the Double Man" on Buckethead's fifth studio album, Monsters and Robots.
• Tracks 2, 4 and 11 borrow heavily from song from Buckethead's sixteenth studio album Inbred Mountain. Notable examples are "Johnny Be Slunk" and "Plastination Station".
• Track 3 also includes samples from the same album, such as "In Search of Inbred Mountain" and "Lotus Island". Track 5 lends samples from Buckethead's seventeenth studio album The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock.

Credits

• Buckethead - Infinite Beak, Guitar
• Dan Monti - Drum Programming
• Produced by Dan Monti and Albert
• Artwork by Bryan Theiss, Frankenseuss Labs, Seattle