Track Listing

1. I Don't Believe
2. Shame
3. What Do I Have To Do?
4. Why
5. Inside You
6. Falls Apart
7. So Wrong
8. Crushing Me
9. Sleep
10. Slipping Away

Quotes on Wither, Blister, Burn + Peel

• "There's less finger pointing. The last record was filled with a lot of 'you did this to me, you took this from me....'This album looks at the situation from the perspective of personal responsibility."
       -Chris Hall about WBB+P
• "For this album, we chose "Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel" as the title because I was trying to use imagery to describe the process that I feel is representative of personal growth as well as what the album means.It sort of symbolizes taking a collection of items you've gotten from a relationship, like polaroids, photo's, letters and things of that nature and having a perging fire. You burn it all, watch it burn and your memories burn with it. Then you try and move on with your life."
       -Chris Hall
• While recording WBB+P:"Oh wow! You've heard about that? Well, I'm not one of the people that felt the studio was haunted! I thought it was a bunch of crap. There's two studio's on the property. A huge studio and then a barn where you do the pre-production. We were recording in the barn and I was staying in the cottages while the other guys slept in the barn. Everything was fine until someone at the studio mentioned a ghost. So, then everyone in the band started seeing ghosts, no one could sleep, people were hearing noises... I was like, "You're sleeping in a fucking barn! Of course you're gonna hear noises!" They were freaking out left and right. After a while, we got the real story behind and it turns out the cottages where I was staying were haunted, not the barn. There was never a single sighting of anything in the barn, but all of a sudden all these ghostly experiences were happening. The ghosts supposedly never bothered guys, because all the ghosts were women and only bothered women. So, none of the traditional ghost stories applied to us- wrong location, wrong sex, yet, these guys swear up and down things are moving, people are tugging on their shirts. Yeah, well, you're obviously smoking a little too much pot in the middle of the country, so I don't know what to tell ya! (laughs) I would sneak up to the barn at night and they'd all be huddled in the middle of the floor drinking a bottle of wine, hugging each other. I'd pound on the window really hard and you'd see four grown men jump up and scream like little girls. It was great."
       -Chris Hall

Notes

• The first stanza of the song I Don't Believe is makeing fun of a phrase said by a former band member.
• Shame is a redone version of the song Shame (Do You Think God Is Dead?) from the 1990/1991 demos. This version is very different from the demo one, however.
• On the import of The Cable Guy soundtrack, the Shame-On You Mix is featured.
• What Do I Have To Do? is in the movie Masterminds but it is not on the soundtrack.
• Whispered during Crushing Me: I have spent every moment of my life since the day you left trying to rebuild the shattered remains of my pathetic life... working to become someone you could be proud of, someone you could love again. I have given you everything I have to give, well, everything taking into consideration your reluctance to accept anything I have to offer... I am tired of living my life for you, I am tired of living my life for everyone else in this fucking world. Hell, I am tired of living.
• Sleep was written about one of Chris Hall's former girlfriends who was sexually abused by her father.