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Terminal Boardumb => Music Shit => Topic started by: marblestat on February 27, 2020, 07:51:24 PM
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Finally listening to this tape I picked up on a whim from a set sale here last summer. Really great tape but the actual recording seems to be a bit off from the track list - does anybody know what the real track list is? Discogs and bandcamp match the artwork, and so that’s no help. I doubt my copy is different as these look to be pro-duped tapes. Anybody have some insight?
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I'll listen tonight and report back.
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Thanks man - it’s mostly the live side that I’m having trouble pinning down the order
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Alright, here's what I got on the tape tracklisting:
Side A
!. Backsliding
2. Wicked Thing
3. I Want Nothing Of It
4. Before It Rains
5. Temperature Drop
6. Meet Me Now
7. In the End
8. Me and Trickknee talking after an MG's set at the Cactus Club 2003
Side B
1. Hit Me Again
2. Tin Star
3. Don't Blame It On Rock N Roll
4. Musty Shade of Brown
5. Green Machine
6. Brown Bag Blues
7. Silver and Gold
8. Private Parade
9. I Been Pushin'
10. This is Stereo
Most of the covers listed aren't actually on the tape: In My Time of Dying, Lost and Found, Treatment Bound, Empty Heart, Tell Me, Summertime Blues, No Fun, Your Way of Saying No
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Much appreciated! This tape has been really hitting the spot. I bought their In The Red albums a long time ago and for some reason never resonated with me as much as the stuff on this tape.
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Weird, don't remember the clip of me talking, must have been embarassing. A quick summary of why the ITR and maybe even debut albums of the great live band Mystery Girls may have been less interesting than their outtakes.
1. The Mystery Girls had put out some cool compilation and demo shits early on that were definitely in the "primitive garage punk" camp, inspired by LSOK. They were young kids in high school. These tracks rule, dominated by Matt's songs...Matt didn't write much after the first album, it became Jordan's band at that point.
2. They put out an album-length demo tape of home 4-track recordings that would have been their best album if I'd have listened to them and put it out like that. The song "Hit Me Again" on "920 Blues," their vinyl debut, is from that tape. However, I thought they would benefit from a real studio, so I set it up. They had already been around for years without any vinyl, so it seemed like the way to go. We recorded it in one day and mixed/sequenced it the next. It was a bit rushed, they were a bit nervous, the energy wasn't quite there and I let Jordan put too much harmonica/percussion in the mix where there should have been guitars. Decent but flawed record.
3. People dug the first album enough that many labels were offering singles. Jordan was writing a lot of songs, and they played out all the time. ITR signed them and sent them to Jim Diamond in Detroit. They decided to record a large batch of songs and use the recordings for an album and a spate of singles. They were not comfortable at all, nervous kids that they were, and the recordings sounded flat in terms of performace because they probably werre in the studio. Compounding this, Jordan decided to hold a lot of the best songs for A-Sides of singles that never materialized. Therefore ya get a couple throwaway instros and lesser tunes. And I begged Jordan not to include "Blues in G" and certainly not to put it like 3rd or whatever. He gave me some Yardbirds example, but come on bruh. Many of those songs that were supposed to be singles and SHOULD have been on the 2nd album are on the tape that Bobby did.
4. Line-up changes and drugs and other etcs were going on by the recording for the 3rd album. They put together a hodge-podge of great songs (like "Oh Apollo") and a live recording and other odds n ends...they broke up before it was completed, and it took band member Mike Zink a year or so to finish off the mixing/mastering/sequencing. By then, no one cared. Considering everything, he did a good job stitching together that hodge-podge, and it flows fairly nicely and works as an album. The songs, though, were not as consistent as their earlier set-lists.
Now, back to Facebook. I probably missed like 8 dank-ass memes writing this shits.
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DANK MEMES!!!!!
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roy played me their demos for years and eventually released a single on kryptonite, which is great. the 920 blues track is also, awesome. and yeah, that tape from maybe 5 years ago? real solid, i listened to it constantly in my '96 S10 at the time, which i was using to deliver pizzas and had a working tape deck. i remember the first time i saw 'em, zink was wearing a dark side of the moon T shirt and they were these hippy looking kids and i thought "this is going to suck" and they blew my mind! i have the ITR album about six inches away from me with my favorite records, listen to it all the time.
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Track nine on the live side is called "I Been Pushin" according to Jordan. Changed in my initial post of tracklisting.
Bobby Hussy also says all the tracks are in the download, but I forgot to download mine. Will DL and check for the halibut.
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This is great! Termbo coming trough
I guess I gotta keep an eye out for a copy of that 1st lp!
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Weird, don't remember the clip of me talking, must have been embarassing. A quick summary of why the ITR and maybe even debut albums of the great live band Mystery Girls may have been less interesting than their outtakes.
1. The Mystery Girls had put out some cool compilation and demo shits early on that were definitely in the "primitive garage punk" camp, inspired by LSOK. They were young kids in high school. These tracks rule, dominated by Matt's songs...Matt didn't write much after the first album, it became Jordan's band at that point.
2. They put out an album-length demo tape of home 4-track recordings that would have been their best album if I'd have listened to them and put it out like that. The song "Hit Me Again" on "920 Blues," their vinyl debut, is from that tape. However, I thought they would benefit from a real studio, so I set it up. They had already been around for years without any vinyl, so it seemed like the way to go. We recorded it in one day and mixed/sequenced it the next. It was a bit rushed, they were a bit nervous, the energy wasn't quite there and I let Jordan put too much harmonica/percussion in the mix where there should have been guitars. Decent but flawed record.
3. People dug the first album enough that many labels were offering singles. Jordan was writing a lot of songs, and they played out all the time. ITR signed them and sent them to Jim Diamond in Detroit. They decided to record a large batch of songs and use the recordings for an album and a spate of singles. They were not comfortable at all, nervous kids that they were, and the recordings sounded flat in terms of performace because they probably werre in the studio. Compounding this, Jordan decided to hold a lot of the best songs for A-Sides of singles that never materialized. Therefore ya get a couple throwaway instros and lesser tunes. And I begged Jordan not to include "Blues in G" and certainly not to put it like 3rd or whatever. He gave me some Yardbirds example, but come on bruh. Many of those songs that were supposed to be singles and SHOULD have been on the 2nd album are on the tape that Bobby did.
4. Line-up changes and drugs and other etcs were going on by the recording for the 3rd album. They put together a hodge-podge of great songs (like "Oh Apollo") and a live recording and other odds n ends...they broke up before it was completed, and it took band member Mike Zink a year or so to finish off the mixing/mastering/sequencing. By then, no one cared. Considering everything, he did a good job stitching together that hodge-podge, and it flows fairly nicely and works as an album. The songs, though, were not as consistent as their earlier set-lists.
Now, back to Facebook. I probably missed like 8 dank-ass memes writing this shits.
I actually don't think that I ever made it past 'Blues In G', but just listened to the whole album.
I've been missing out - lots of hits on SITW especially on the second side.
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I saw them live in 2003 (Denver) and thought they totally shredded. I bought their first 7" and LP from them but neither grabbed me as much as seeing them. Sounds like there is reason for that.