Papas Fritas is the debut album by Papas Fritas

Papas Fritas

Papas Fritas is an American indie-rock band that formed in 1992 and released three studio albums before quietly breaking up around 2001. The band's name is Spanish for "French fries" but is also a pun on the phrase "Pop has freed us," which they used as both the name of their music publishing...

 and was released in October 1995 on Minty Fresh. Trouser Press

Trouser Press

Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow Who fan Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" ...

editor Ira Robbins wrote that the group "turns extraordinarily fetching pop concoctions like 'Lame to Be,' 'TV Movies,' 'Possibilities' and 'Smash This World' into disarmingly sophisticated and diverse small-scale charmers with abundant skill and no evidence of effort."

Track listing

1. "Guys Don't Lie" (Shivika Asthana/Tony Goddess) – 2:39
2. "Holiday" (Goddess) – 2:49
3. "Wild Life" (Goddess) – 3:16
4. "Passion Play" (Goddess) – 3:04
5. "TV Movies" (Asthana/Goddess) – 3:58
6. "My Revolution" (Keith Gendel) – 2:45
7. "Kids Don't Mind" (Asthana/Gendel/Goddess) – 0:51
8. "Smash This World" (Goddess) – 2:49
9. "Lame to Be" (Asthana/Goddess) – 2:48
10. "Possibilities" (Asthana/Gendel/Goddess) – 2:21
11. "My Own Girlfriend" (Goddess) – 1:59
12. "Explain" (Goddess) – 3:41
13. "Afterall" (Goddess) – 3:07

Personnel

• Shivika Asthana: drums, vocals
• Keith Gendel: bass, vocals
• Tony Goddess: guitar, piano, vocals

• Tom Swafford: string arrangement on "Passion Play" (Swafford and Kathleen Derbyshire, violins; Heather Morehouse, viola; Sarah Thompson, cello)

• Paul Sanni: engineering (Hi-Tech City, Somerville, Mass.)
• Paul Q. Kolderie
  Paul Q. Kolderie
  Paul Q. Kolderie is a record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with Pixies, Radiohead, Orangutang, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Wax, Warren Zevon, Uncle Tupelo, Throwing Muses, Morphine, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Abandoned Pools, and The Go-Go's...
  
  , Sean Slade
  Sean Slade
  Sean Slade is a record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with artists including Hole, Radiohead, Warren Zevon, Juliana Hatfield, Dinosaur Jr., Uncle Tupelo, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Boo Radleys, Sebadoh, Lush, the Go-Go's, and The Dictators among others. In 2005 he produced The...
  
  : mixing (Fort Apache West, Cambridge, Mass.)
• Roger Siebel: mastering (SAE, Phoenix, Ariz.)

• Anna Rappaport, Tim Leanse: photography
• Michael Hafitz: protection