# Butterfly Love

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Butterfly Love
| type       = Album
| artist     = [Steel Pole Bath Tub](/source/Steel_Pole_Bath_Tub)
| cover      = Steel Pole Bath Tub - Butterfly Love.jpeg
| alt        =
| released   = 1989
| recorded   = February 11 – 16, 1989
| venue      =
| studio     = Razor's Edge Recording<br /> {{small|(San Francisco, CA)}}
| genre      = [Noise rock](/source/Noise_rock), [post-hardcore](/source/post-hardcore)
| length     = 32:21
| label      = [Boner](/source/Boner_Records)
| producer   = Steel Pole Bath Tub
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [Lurch](/source/Lurch_(EP))
| next_year  = 1990
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)
|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Ned |last=Raggett |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000268228|pure_url=yes}}|title=Steel Pole Bath Tub: ''Butterfly Love'' > Overview |website=AllMusic |accessdate=July 2, 2016}}</ref>
}}
'''''Butterfly Love''''' is the debut studio album by the American band [Steel Pole Bath Tub](/source/Steel_Pole_Bath_Tub).<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Coley |first1=Byron |title=Underground |magazine=Spin |date=Feb 1990 |volume=5 |issue=11 |page=80}}</ref> It was released in 1989 by [Boner Records](/source/Boner_Records).<ref name="trouserpress">{{cite web |first=David |last=Sprague |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=steel_pole_bath_tub |title=Steel Pole Bath Tub |publisher=[Trouser Press](/source/Trouser_Press) |year=2007 |accessdate=July 2, 2016}}</ref>

== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
| headline        = Side one
| all_writing     = [Steel Pole Bath Tub](/source/Steel_Pole_Bath_Tub)
| title1          = Time to Die
| length1         = 3:39
| title2          = I Am Sam I Am
| length2         = 2:45
| title3          = Welcome Aboard It's Love
| length3         = 3:09
| title4          = Bee Sting
| length4         = 5:12
}}
{{Track listing
| headline        = Side two
| title1          = Hey Bo Diddley
| length1         = 2:55
| title2          = Swerve
| length2         = 3:15
| title3          = Thru the Windshield of Love
| length3         = 1:58
| title4          = Heaven on Dirt
| length4         = 6:39
| title5          = Tear It Apart
| length5         = 2:49
}}

== Personnel ==
Adapted from the ''Butterfly Love'' liner notes.<ref name="linearnotes">{{cite AV media notes |title=Butterfly Love |others=[Steel Pole Bath Tub](/source/Steel_Pole_Bath_Tub) |year=1989 |type=sleeve |publisher=[Boner Records](/source/Boner_Records) |location=Berkeley, California}}</ref>
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;Steel Pole Bath Tub
* [Dale Flattum](/source/Dale_Flattum)&nbsp;– bass guitar, [sampler](/source/Sampler_(musical_instrument)), vocals
* [Mike Morasky](/source/Mike_Morasky)&nbsp;– guitar, [tape](/source/electroacoustic_music), vocals
* [Darren Morey](/source/Darren_Morey) <small>(as D.K. Mor-X)</small>&nbsp;– drums, guitar, [tambourine](/source/tambourine)
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;Production and additional personnel
* Jonathan Burnside&nbsp;– [engineering](/source/Audio_engineering)
* [Steel Pole Bath Tub](/source/Steel_Pole_Bath_Tub)&nbsp;– production
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==Release history==
{|class="wikitable"
! Region
! Date
! Label
! Format
! Catalog
|-
| United States
| 1989
| [Boner](/source/Boner_Records)
| [CS](/source/Compact_Cassette), [LP](/source/vinyl_record)
| BR15
|}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Discogs master |master=271959 |name=Butterfly Love |type=album}}

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Category:1989 debut albums
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