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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