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| label = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
| producer = [[GGGarth
| prev_title = [[Down (The Jesus Lizard album)|Down]]
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| rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|title=allmusic ((( ''Shot'' > Review )))|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r233555|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas|accessdate=April 25, 2010}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |
| rev7 = ''[[The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>Brackett, Nathan. "The Jesus Lizard". ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide''. November 2004. pg. 430, cited April 25, 2010</ref>
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| rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>Columnist. "Shot". ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''. May 1996. pg. 59, cited April 25, 2010</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3Score = B−<ref>Sinclair, Tom. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090427110728/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,292179,00.html "Shot"]. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''. April 1996, cited April 25, 2010</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork Media]]''
| rev6score = 6.2/10<ref>Josephes, Jason. [https://web.archive.org/web/20010830020542/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/j/jesus-lizard/shot.shtml "Shot"]. pitchfork.com. Retrieved on May 7, 2010.</ref>
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'''''Shot''''' is an album by the band [[The Jesus Lizard]], its first release on [[Capitol Records]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.avclub.com/the-jesus-lizard-s-sho-r-t-was-the-best-document-of-its-1798246406|title=The Jesus Lizard's Sho(r)t was the best document of its major label dalliance|website=News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-jesus-lizard-mn0000089305/biography|title=The Jesus Lizard | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref> Some copies of the album were accompanied by a documentary titled "Sho(r)t".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwcEAAAAMBAJ&dq=shot+jesus+lizard+1996&pg=PA102|title=Jesus Lizard's 'Sho(r)t' Strategy|work=Billboard|date=August 3, 1996|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Production==
Impressed by his work on the album ''[[Houdini (album)|Houdini]]'' by [[Melvins]], the band hired producer [[Garth Richardson|GGGarth]] to record ''Shot''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zy0ZAwAAQBAJ
''Shot'' is the first studio album by the band that was not
==Critical reception==
''Shot'' became the band's only album to chart in the US, as it peaked at No. 28 on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Top Heatseekers]] chart.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/former-jesus-lizard-david-yow-casts-lewd-clanging-solo-album-debut-1565551/ |title=Former Jesus Lizard David Yow Casts Lewd Clanging Solo Album Debut |website=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=June 15, 2023 |access-date=March 30, 2024}}</ref>
''[[Trouser Press]]'' wrote that "songs like 'Thumbscrews' and 'Skull of a German' prove Yow hasn’t lost anything in terms of horror-storytelling, but his stab at 'singing' (much in the manner he employed in his Scratch Acid days) is ill-advised."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Jesus Lizard |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/jesus-lizard/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=4 March 2021}}</ref> ''[[Kerrang!]]'' wrote that ''Shot'' "features [David Wm.] Sims’ best bass playing," praising "the spiralling flourish at 2:37 on 'Skull Of A German'."<ref>https://www.kerrang.com/features/your-essential-guide-to-the-jesus-lizard/</ref>▼
▲''[[Trouser Press]]'' wrote that "songs like 'Thumbscrews' and 'Skull of a German' prove Yow hasn’t lost anything in terms of horror-storytelling, but his stab at 'singing' (much in the manner he employed in his Scratch Acid days) is ill-advised."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Jesus Lizard |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/jesus-lizard/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=4 March 2021}}</ref> ''[[Kerrang!]]'' wrote that ''Shot'' "features [David Wm.] Sims’ best bass playing," praising "the spiralling flourish at 2:37 on 'Skull Of A German'."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/your-essential-guide-to-the-jesus-lizard/|title=Your Essential Guide To The Jesus Lizard|website=Kerrang!}}</ref> ''[[Perfect Sound Forever (magazine)|Perfect Sound Forever]]'' wrote that "even though the band is bathed in 'clean' conventional studio mix, they are still the Jesus Lizard and that means dark, ugly and weird."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.furious.com/perfect/jesuslizard.html|title=Jesus Lizard|website=www.furious.com}}</ref> ''[[Rough Guides|The Rough Guide to Rock]]'' called the album "another wedge of death-metal-grunge that showed little sign of burnout."<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |date=1999 |publisher=Rough Guides Ltd |page=516 |edition=2nd}}</ref>
==Track listing==
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# "Inamorata" - 3:05
# "Pervertedly Slow" - 2:40
# "Shut Up" (Japanese CD only bonus track) - 1:20
# "Bad Guy" (Japanese CD only bonus track) - 2:20
==Personnel==
*[[GGGarth
*Jeff Lane and GGGarth - engineer
*[[Joe Barresi]] - mixing
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