Trouble Doll (The Disappointing 3rd LP)

Studio album and Live album by B.A.L.L.

Released

1989

Recorded

Noise New York, NYC
December 6, 1988 at CBGB's

Genre

Alternative rock

Length

68:47

B.A.L.L. chronology

Bird/Period
(1989)

Trouble Doll
(1989)

Hardball
(1990)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Trouble Doll (The Disappointing 3rd LP) is the third album by B.A.L.L., released in 1989 through Shimmy Disc. The first half is a studio album that contains new material, while the second half contain a live performance recorded at CBGB's in New York City.^[2]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Don Fleming; all music composed by B.A.L.L..

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Should Brothers Kill?"	1:33
2.	"Never Meant to Say"	2:40
3.	"Trouble World"	2:17
4.	"Trouble Doll"	2:08
5.	"This Is War"	1:39
6.	"Little Tex in Trouble"	3:06
7.	"Trashman"	2:17
8.	"Trouble Momma"	3:05
9.	"I Could Always Be With You"	2:18
10.	"The Cracked Life of a Cracked Man"	2:45
11.	"Flowers Grow on the Wall"	2:20

CD bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"Little Tex's Prelude"		1:46
13.	"Reagan's Bush Is on Fire"		3:45
14.	"Amazon"		2:34
15.	"Trouble Baby"		1:55
16.	"Tx-Five"		0:44
17.	"African Sunset"		2:45
18.	"Everywhere"		3:15
19.	"The French"		1:07
20.	"When Is a Man"		2:09
21.	"Bird"		2:36
22.	"Charm"		2:50
23.	"My T.V. Is Broke"		1:39
24.	"The King Will Never Die"		2:39
25.	"If I Breakdown"		2:02
26.	"It Don't Come Easy" (Ringo Starr cover)	Ringo Starr	1:52
27.	"Love Was the End"		2:29
28.	"Just Like The Last Time"		2:07
29.	"Buick McKane" (T. Rex cover)	Marc Bolan	2:23
30.	"Trouble Finale"		2:15

Personnel

Adapted from the Trouble Doll (The Disappointing 3rd LP) liner notes.^[3]

B.A.L.L.

Production and additional personnel

Dave Rick – guitar (19–29)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	1989	Shimmy Disc	CS, LP	shimmy 022
Netherlands	1989	Shimmy Disc	CD, LP	SDE 8909

References

↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "B.A.L.L.: Trouble Doll > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
↑ Kenny, Glenn (2007). "B.A.L.L.". Trouser Press. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
↑ Trouble Doll (The Disappointing 3rd LP) (booklet). B.A.L.L. New York City, New York: Shimmy Disc. 1989.

External links

Trouble Doll (The Disappointing 3rd LP) at Discogs (list of releases)

B.A.L.L.

Don Fleming Kramer Jay Spiegel David Licht

Studio albums	Period Bird Trouble Doll Hardball

Compilation albums	Bird/Period

Related articles	Shimmy Disc

Categories	Albums Members

Kramer

Discography

Studio albums	The Guilt Trip The Secret of Comedy Let Me Explain Something to You About Art Songs from the Pink Death The Greenberg Variations The Brill Building

Collaborative albums	Happiness Finally Came to Them Roll Out the Barrel Real Men Who's Afraid? Egomaniacs Hot Day in Waco A Remark Hugh Made Black Power Gunsmoke Hit Men Huge Rubber Hair Reasons in the Sun The Sound of Music

Live albums	Still Alive in '95

Compilation albums	Music for Crying

Shockabilly	Earth vs. Shockabilly Colosseum Vietnam Heaven

Bongwater	Double Bummer Too Much Sleep The Power of Pussy The Big Sell-Out

B.A.L.L.	Period Bird Trouble Doll Hardball

Captain Howdy	Tattoo of Blood Money Feeds My Music Machine

Related articles	Shimmy Disc

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