Vegas Throat

{{Infobox album

| name = Vegas Throat

| type = album

| artist = Barkmarket

| cover = Barkmarket Vegas Throat.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1991}}
{{Start date|1992|3|10}} (re-issue)

| recorded = {{Start date|1990|12}}-{{Start date|1991|2}}

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Noise rock

| length = 52:37
57:34 (Def American release)

| label = Triple X
Def American (re-issue)

| producer = Dave Sardy

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Gimmick

| next_year = 1993

}}

Vegas Throat is the debut studio album by the American noise rock band Barkmarket.{{cite book |last1=Blush |first1=Steve |title=New York Rock: From the Rise of the Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB |date=2016 |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group |page=277}} It was released in 1991 by Triple X Records. It was reissued in 1992 on Rick Rubin's Def American label with an alternate track listing and the song " Ten Convictions". The album's title is a colloquial term describing a chronic sore throat attributed by singers and performers to the dry desert air in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Reception

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web |first=Stewart |last=Mason |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000071456|pure_url=yes}}|title=Barkmarket: Vegas Thoat > Review |website=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=July 19, 2015}}

|rev2 = Kerrang!

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Kaye |first=Don |date=April 18, 1992 |title=Rekordz |magazine=Kerrang! |publisher=EMAP |issue=388 |page=21}}

}}

Stewart Mason of AllMusic claimed that "the rough edges of this album add to its charm", although noting that later releases perfected the band's sound.

Track listing

{{track listing

| all_lyrics = Dave Sardy, except where noted

| all_music = Barkmarket, except where noted

| title1 = Grinder

| length1 = 4:16

| title2 = Pitbull

| length2 = 5:59

| title3 = Ditty

| length3 = 1:46

| title4 = The Nuisance

| length4 = 3:58

| title5 = The Patsy

| length5 = 4:33

| title6 = Poverty

| length6 = 3:37

| title7 = Pencil

| length7 = 5:35

| title8 = Fatstamp

| length8 = 4:05

| title9 = Hydrox God

| length9 = 5:13

| title10 = Salvation

| length10 = 4:47

| title11 = I Don't Live

| note11 = Jimi Hendrix Experience cover

| writer11 = Jimi Hendrix

| length11 = 4:34

| title12 = Back Stabbers

| note12 = O'Jays cover

| writer12 = Leon Huff, Gene McFadden, John Whitehead

| length12 = 4:14

}}

{{track listing

| headline = Def American CD re-issue

| title1 = Grinder

| length1 = 4:11

| title2 = Ditty

| length2 = 1:46

| title3 = The Nuisance

| length3 = 3:58

| title4 = The Patsy

| length4 = 4:33

| title5 = Poverty

| length5 = 3:37

| title6 = Pitbull

| length6 = 5:59