Widowspeak (Lydia Lunch album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Widowspeak

| type = compilation

| artist = Lydia Lunch

| cover = Lydia Lunch - Widowspeak.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1998

| recorded = {{Start date|1979}}–{{Start date|1998}}

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Post-punk

| length = 89:00

| label = New Millennium Communications (NMC)

| producer =

| prev_title = Matrikamantra

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = Smoke in the Shadows

| next_year = 2004

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first=Steve |last=Huey |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r413938|pure_url=yes}}|title=Widowspeak |publisher=Allmusic |date= |accessdate=February 23, 2013}}

}}

Widowspeak is a compilation album by the singer Lydia Lunch, released in 1998 through New Millennium Communications (NMC).

Track listing

{{Tracklist

| headline = Disc one

| extra_column = Original release

| title1 = Death Valley '69

| note1 = with Sonic Youth

| writer1 = Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore

| extra1 = Bad Moon Rising

| length1 = 5:10

| title2 = Endless Fall

| note2 = with Rowland S. Howard

| writer2 = Rowland S. Howard, Lydia Lunch

| extra2 = Shotgun Wedding

| length2 = 3:45

| title3 = Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

| writer3 = Lennon–McCartney

| extra3 = Don't Fear the Reaper

| length3 = 3:32

| title4 = Some Velvet Morning

| note4 = with Rowland S. Howard

| writer4 = Lee Hazlewood

| extra4 = Some Velvet Morning

| length4 = 4:26

| title5 = Four Cornered Room

| writer5 = Lydia Lunch

| extra5 = previously unreleased

| length5 = 3:22

| title6 = Suicide Ocean

| note6 = with Karl Blake

| writer6 = Lydia Lunch

| extra6 = Fear Engine II

| length6 = 5:13

| title7 = No Excuse

| note7 = with Lee Ranaldo

| writer7 = Lydia Lunch

| extra7 = previously unreleased

| length7 = 3:01

| title8 = A Short History of Decay, Pts. 1 & 2

| note8 = with J.F. Coleman & Joseph Budenholzer

| writer8 = Joseph Budenholzer, Jim Coleman, Lydia Lunch

| extra8 = previously unreleased

| length8 = 2:28

| title9 = Escape

| note9 = with Joseph Budenholzer

| writer9 = Joseph Budenholzer, Lydia Lunch

| extra9 = Matrikamantra

| length9 = 1:52

| title10 = A Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, Connecticut

| writer10 = Lucy Hamilton, Lydia Lunch

| extra10 = The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton

| length10 = 3:29

| title11 = The Need to Feed

| note11 = with Joseph Budenholzer

| writer11 = Joseph Budenholzer, Lydia Lunch

| extra11 = Matrikamantra

| length11 = 3:50

| title12 = Der Karibische Western

| note12 = with Die Haut

| writer12 = Christoph Dreher, Martin Peter

| extra12 = Hysterie

| length12 = 5:30

}}

{{Tracklist

| headline = Disc two

| extra_column = Original release

| title1 = Twisted

| note1 = with Clint Ruin

| writer1 = Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin

| extra1 = 7" single on Insipid

| length1 = 4:22

| title2 = Past Glas

| note2 = with Clint Ruin

| writer2 = Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin

| extra2 = 7" single on Insipid

| length2 = 4:32

| title3 = Done Dun

| note3 = with Rowland S. Howard

| writer3 = Lydia Lunch, Murray Mitchell

| extra3 = Honeymoon in Red

| length3 = 4:28

| title4 = Lock Your Door

| note4 = with 13.13

| writer4 = Lydia Lunch

| extra4 = 13.13

| length4 = 5:26

| title5 = Diddy Wah Diddy

| note5 = with 8 Eyed Spy

| writer5 = Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon

| extra5 = Hysterie

| length5 = 2:19

| title6 = Run Through the Jungle

| note6 = with 8 Eyed Spy

| writer6 = John Fogerty

| extra6 = Hysterie

| length6 = 5:31

| title7 = Orphans

| note7 = with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks

| writer7 = Lydia Lunch

| extra7 = Hysterie

| length7 = 2:26

| title8 = Son of Stink

| note8 = with Clint Ruin

| writer8 = Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin

| extra8 = Stinkfist

| length8 = 3:46

| title9 = Still Burning

| note9 = with Thurston Moore

| writer9 = Rowland S. Howard

| extra9 = In Limbo

| length9 = 6:03

| title10 = Tornado Warnings

| note10 = with Beirut Slump

| writer10 = Lydia Lunch

| extra10 = Hysterie

| length10 = 1:18

| title11 = Lady Scarface

| writer11 = Lydia Lunch

| extra11 = Queen of Siam

| length11 = 3:11

}}

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