History Music / VerucaSalt

Then the unthinkable happened, in March 2013 an announcement was made on the band's official Facebook saying "hatchets buried, axes exhumed" - officially PuttingTheBandBackTogether. Fan's patience was finally rewarded with the release of a new song "The Museum Of Broken Relationships" in April 2014 followed by the band embarking on a US tour. A second new song "It's Holy" was released during the tour.

Veruca Salt are an AlternativeRock band from [[TheWindyCity Chicago]], formed in 1993. Named after a character from ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', the band had some initial success in TheNineties before fading out of view.

The first and most famous incarnation of the band coalesced around Louise Post and Nina Gordon, who both played guitars, sang, and wrote almost all the band's songs (barring some covers and a co-write). Soon enough, they filled out the band with bassist Steve Lack and Nina's brother Jim Shapiro on drums, and gained a record deal with Minty Fresh Records. Their first album, ''American Thighs'', boasted their trademark Music/ThePixies influenced PowerPop and became reasonably successful, chiefly due to Gordon's "Seether" being released as a single and [[LizPhair Brad Wood]]'s {{Grunge}}y production helping it appeal to the alt-rock audience.

The band acrimoniously collapsed only a year later as Gordon left with Lack after arguments with Post. Post reorganised the band, bringing in new members to an almost RevolvingDoorBand-like degree, and has since recorded two more albums: ''Resolver'', which got a lukewarm reception due to its unfocused nature and AuthorTract-like tendency to throw [[TakeThat potshots]] at Gordon and various other targets, and ''IV''.

Notable songs:

'''Members''':

'''Albums''':

* TheCameo: They cameoed as a replacement band in the video for "Painted Soldiers" by {{Pavement}}.
* CoverVersion: "Bodies" by TheSexPistols, "My Sharona" by The Knack, "Burned" by NeilYoung.

* PunBasedTitle: ''Resolver''.

-->''I told you about the Seether before''
-->''You know the one that's neither or nor''
-->''Well here's another clue if you please,''
-->''[[TheWalrusWasPaul The Seether's Louise]]''
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Aurora".
* VocalTagTeam: Gordon and Post during the band's first incarnation - typically each would sing lead vocals on half the songs on each album with the other providing harmony vocals.
* TakeThat: There's quite a bit of it on ''Resolver''.

* ShoutOut: Let's see... ''American Thighs'' is a line from [[Music/{{ACDC}} "You Shook Me All Night Long"]], ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was the working title for ''[[Music/TheBeatles Help!]]'', ''Resolver'' is another Beatles pun, ''Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt'' could be a reference to ''Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's Music/TheSexPistols,'' the bridge of "Number One Blind" quotes Music/ThePixies' "Stormy Weather", "With DavidBowie" is obvious and "Volcano Girls" simultaneously referenced "Glass Onion" by Music/TheBeatles and their first hit with the verse:

The first and most famous incarnation of the band coalesced around Louise Post and Nina Gordon, who both played guitars, sang, and wrote almost all the band's songs (barring some covers and a co-write). Soon enough, they filled out the band with bassist Steve Lack and Nina's brother Jim Shapiro on drums, and gained a record deal with Minty Fresh Records. Their first album, ''American Thighs'', boasted their trademark {{Pixies}}-influenced PowerPop and became reasonably successful, chiefly due to Gordon's "Seether" being released as a single and [[LizPhair Brad Wood]]'s {{Grunge}}y production helping it appeal to the alt-rock audience.

* ShoutOut: Let's see... ''American Thighs'' is a line from [[Music/{{ACDC}} "You Shook Me All Night Long"]], ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was the working title for ''[[Music/TheBeatles Help!]]'', ''Resolver'' is another Beatles pun, ''Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt'' could be a reference to ''Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's TheSexPistols'', the bridge of "Number One Blind" quotes ThePixies' "Stormy Weather", "With DavidBowie" is obvious and "Volcano Girls" simultaneously referenced "Glass Onion" by Music/TheBeatles and their first hit with the verse:

* ShoutOut: Let's see... ''American Thighs'' is a line from [[Music/{{ACDC}} "You Shook Me All Night Long"]], ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was the working title for ''[[Music/TheBeatles Help!]]'', ''Resolver'' is another Beatles pun, ''Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt'' could be a reference to ''Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's TheSexPistols'', the bridge of "Number One Blind" quotes ThePixies' "Stormy Weather", "With DavidBowie" is obvious and "Volcano Girls" simultaneously referenced "Glass Onion" and their first hit with the verse:

* ShoutOut: Let's see... ''American Thighs'' is a line from [[Music/{{ACDC}} "You Shook Me All Night Long"]], ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was the working title for ''[[Music/TheBeatles Help!]]'', ''Resolver'' is another Beatles pun, ''Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt'' could be a reference to ''Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's TheSexPistols'', the bridge of "Number One Blind" quotes ThePixies' "Stormy Weather", and "Volcano Girls" simultaneously referenced "Glass Onion" and their first hit with the verse:

* RevivalByCommercialization: "Volcano Girls" in the opening credits of ''{{Jawbreaker}}''.

* RecordProducer: Brad Wood (''American Thighs''), [[{{Nirvana}} Steve]] [[{{PJ Harvey}} Alb]][[ThePixies ini]] (''Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt''), [[{{Metallica}} Bob Rock]] (''Eight Arms to Hold You''), and self-production since.

->''Volcano Girls, we really can't be beat.\\

But now and then we fail and we admit defeat,

->''"Veruca Salt was built around a pair of singer-songwriters, one of whom was talented. Nina Gordon wrote catchy songs and sang them adorably; Louise Post wrote plodding songs and sang them poorly."''
-->-- '''Creator/AdamCadre'''

Then the unthinkable happened, in March 2013 an announcement was made on the band's official Facebook saying "hatchets buried, axes exhumed" - officially PuttingTheBandBackTogether. Fan's patience was finally rewarded with the release of a new song "The Museum Of Broken Relationships" in April 2014 followed by the band embarking on a US tour.

Then the unthinkable happened, in March 2013 an announcement was made on the band's official Facebook saying "hatchets buried, axes exhumed" - officially PuttingTheBandBackTogether.

Veruca Salt are an AlternativeRock band from [[TheWindyCity Chicago]], formed in 1993. Named after a character from ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', the band had some initial success in TheNineties before fading out of view.

* TheFaceOfTheBand: Gordon and Post were this during the first incarnation - being two attractive girls who handled pretty much all the vocals and all the guitars they tended to overshadow the male bassist and drummer.

* CoverVersion: "Bodies" by TheSexPistols, "My Sharona" by TheKnack, "Burned" by NeilYoung.

* Stephen Fitzpatrick - guitar (1998-2013)

Then the unthinkable happened, in March 2013 an announcement was made on the band's official Facebook saying "hatchets buried, axes exhumed" heralded PuttingTheBandBackTogether.

Second incarnation:

* Stephen Fitzpatrick - guitar (1998-present)

* Nicole Fiorentino - bass (2005-present, also playing with Music/TheSmashingPumpkins)

* Kellii Scott - drums (2005-present)

The band acrimoniously collapsed only a year later as Gordon left with Lack after arguments with Post. Post reorganised the band, bringing in new members to an almost RevolvingDoorBand-like degree, and has since recorded two more albums: ''Resolver'', which got a lukewarm reception due to its unfocused nature and AuthorTract-like tendency to throw [[TakeThat potshots]] at Gordon and various other targets, and ''IV''.

-->''Veruca Salt was built around a pair of singer-songwriters, one of whom was talented. Nina Gordon wrote catchy songs and sang them adorably; Louise Post wrote plodding songs and sang them poorly.''
-->--'''AdamCadre'''

* ShoutOut: Let's see... ''American Thighs'' is a line from [[Music/{{ACDC}} "You Shook Me All Night Long"]], ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was the working title for ''[[TheBeatles Help!]]'', ''Resolver'' is another Beatles pun, ''Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt'' could be a reference to ''Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's TheSexPistols'', the bridge of "Number One Blind" quotes ThePixies' "Stormy Weather", and "Volcano Girls" simultaneously referenced "Glass Onion" and their first hit with the verse:

After buying time with a noisier, harsher EP called ''Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt'', the band moved to GeffenRecords and began working on their next album with Bob Rock, apparently because they were impressed by his production for {{Metallica}}'s SelfTitledAlbum. The result was ''Eight Arms to Hold You'', which once again became successful due to a Gordon lead single, namely "Volcano Girls" (the ColbertBump it got from being in the credits of ''{{Film/Jawbreaker}}'' may have helped). However, the band failed to sustain its momentum as subsequent singles from the album tanked on the charts and Shapiro left after the album was released, being replaced with Stacy Jones for the supporting tour.

* LesYay: Nina and Louise were very...close, it's almost impossible to find a picture of the two not draped over each other, and almost every music video had more than a couple scenes of them dancing or almost kissing, of course it's [[MoneyDearBoy entirely possible]] there are [[GirlOnGirlIsHot other reasons]] for this, but in the absence of opposing evidence, it's safe to assume this was how they really felt.
** Sort of explains the sheer acrimony that accompanied the collapse of the first incarnation, too.

* Nicole Fiorentino - bass (2005-present, also playing with TheSmashingPumpkins)