Space Heater is the fifth album by Reverend Horton Heat, released by Interscope Records

Interscope Records

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 in March 1998. It charted on the Billboard 200

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, reaching number 187. Pride of San Jacinto appears in the videogame Hot Wheels Turbo Racing

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Album art

The front-cover album art is a parody

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 of 1950s horror movie poster

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s. It play

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s on a double entendre

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, turning 1950s-era space heaters into alien

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 spacecraft

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 invading

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 from outer space

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, complete with search lights or tractor beam

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Track listing

1. "Pride of San Jacinto" (Wallace) – 3:13
2. "Lie Detector" (Heath) – 3:24
3. "Hello Mrs. Darkness" (Heath) – 3:11
4. "Jimbo Song" (Heath/Wallace) – 2:21
5. "Revolution Under Foot" (Heath/Wallace/Churilla) – 4:29
6. "Starlight Lounge" (Heath) – 2:48
7. "Goin' Manic" (Heath/Churilla/Wallace) – 4:27
8. "Mi Amor" (Heath) – 3:05
9. "For Never More" (Heath/Wallace/Churilla) – 2:53
10. "The Prophet Stomp" (Heath) – 3:02
11. "Native Tongue of Love" (Heath) – 3:17
12. "Couch Surfin'" (Heath/Churilla) – 4:02
13. "Cinco de Mayo" (Heath/Churilla/Wallace/Stasium) – 2:11
14. "Texas Rock-A-Billy Rebel" (Heath) – 2:47
15. "Baby I'm Drunk" (Heath) – 3:11
16. "Space Heater" (Heath/Churilla/Wallace) – 9:47

Personnel

• Jim "Reverend Horton" Heath - vocals
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  , guitar
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  s, harmonica
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   (on "Goin' Manic")
• Jimbo Wallace - upright bass
• Scott Churilla - drums
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• Tim Alexander - piano
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   (on "Lie Detector"), accordion
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  on ("Mi Amor")
• Ed Stasium - producer, recorder, mixer
• Phillip Green - assistant recorder
• Marvin Hlavenka - assistant recorder
• Junichi Murakawa - assistant mixer
• Greg Calbi - mastering
• Tom Whalley - A&R direction
• Scott Weiss - management
• Jeffrey Taylor Light - legal
• Unleashed - art direction + design
• Lisa Peardon - photography

Album

Year	Album	Chart	Position
1998	Space Heater	Heatseekers	14
		Billboard 200	187