INDIE-ROCK FORTUNE COOKIE (Recorded July 1998) |
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (Summer 1999) |
THE ONLY TIME I FEEL RIGHT IS WHEN I'M DRAWING COMIC BOOKS (Version
three, winter/spring 1999-2000) |
I AM, OF COURSE, GLAD (Summer 2000) |
48 minutes of music on a 60 minute cassette, comprised of eleven Jeff
solo acoustic songs recorded by Whip onto four-track, July 18-19, and additional
two bedroom boombox recordings made July 26 featuring Jack on bass/lead vocal,
Jeff on acoustic/backing vocal. Maybe a couple hundred cassette copies made
and sold (for three dollars; four page comic and fortune included) over the
following years. 100 copies pressed onto CDR in February 2001.
Tracks:
Side A
1) The East River
2) Another Girl
3) 3/4 Moon (version one)
4) Life
5) Flippity-Floppity
6) Everyone's Honest
7) Songs About Songwriting
8) Heavy Heart
Side B
9) The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song
10) Viviane From Washington Square
11) Gravity Sue
12) Clyde and Alyda
13) The Man With The Golden Arm |
60 minute cassette album of 15 Jeff solo walkman recordings, recorded
in one sitting. Probably less than a hundred copies made and sold over the following
year (for three dollars; four page comic included).
Tracks:
Side A
1) Flood (version one)
2) Gold (version one)
3) Great Big City Sunshine
4) New York City Boy/War in the Neighborhood
5) His Name Was Water
6) Message
7) Fig
Side B
8) I Don't Understand Why People Act So Mean
9) He Heard a Rap 1 Day
10) September
11) Journey To the Center Of the Earth
12) The Crawling Man
13) Bite the Bullet (Get a Job)
14) When I'm Inking
15) Song For the Sidewalk Cafe
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60 minute cassette album, comprised of Jeff acoustic songs recorded
by Spencer Chakedis on ProTools, Jack solo bass/vocal boombox recordings, a
live track from the Knitting Factory and "Dance Myself To Death" from
version two. Maybe a hundred copies made/sold over the following year (for three
dollars; five page comic and fortune included)
Tracks:
Side A
1) Dance Myself To Death (version two)
2) Hippie (early version)
3) Seattle (version two)
4) The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane (version three)
5) Teenage Style (Jack solo bass/vocal boombox recording)
6) I Mugged Ray Johnson (Main Title Theme) (live at the Knitting
Factory)
7) Complete History of Jeff's Sexual Conquests, Volume I
Side B
8) 6 Stories
9) Crow Ballad
10) 8 Pictures (Jack solo bass/vocal boombox recording)
11) What Are You Doing Over There? (Jack solo bass/vocal boombox
recording)
12) Back When I Was 4 (early version)
13) Springtime
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60 minute cassette of Jeff solo boombox/walkman recordings. Probably
less than fifty copies made and sold over the following months (for three dollars;
four page comic included).
Tracks:
Side A
1)Graveyard(first version)
2)Together We Form Jeff
3)Champion Jim
4)Big Fat Birds
5)The Universe Is An Open Mic Too
6)Domingo Roso
7)Sal's Pizza Has Sold Out To The Yuppie Scum
8)Sandy
9)The Door
10)Mesmeric Revelation part 2
Side B
11)Psychotropic Death
12)Beach Party(early recording)
13)Spontaneous Combustion Engine
14)Let's Get Fucked Up
15)Song For H.O.T. Apologies To J.C.M.
16)In The Past They Told Us (Guitar Situations song with Babs)
17)Swells (Guitar Situations song with Babs)
18)Mesmeric Revelation part 1 |
A one-sided cassette recorded on boombox with Jack on bass/vocals,
Jeff on electric piano/guitar/vocals.
Tracks:
1)Bouree (cover of instrumental Jethro Tull song)
2)Upstairs In My Window (written/sung by Jack)
3)Free World (written/sung by Jack)
4) Three Foot Long Shit (with improv lyrics mostly by Jeff)
5) Honest Andy (written/sung by Jack)
6) Mrs. Blackmailer's Room (written/sung by Jack)
7) Waiting For The Man (cover of the Velvet Underground song)
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First side is the same as version one, but the second side is filled with Jeff solo acoustic
boombox recordings. About five copies made/given out.
Tracks:
Side A (see below)
Side B
1)Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song (early recording)
2)Road Trip
3)Heavy Heart (early recording)
4)Complete History of Jeff's Sexual Conquests, Vol. 1(early recording)
5)Everyone's Honest (early recording)
6)Jello Shot
7)Rainy Ghost
8)Roosevelt Island
9)Life (early recording)
10)Darling Dear
11)Jimmy Corrigan
12)Vivianne (early recording)
13)instrumental |
(Version
one, spring 1999)Never released. A number of Jeff acoustic songs recorded by Whip onto
four-track.Some of the tracks recorded:
One-Trick Pony
Dance Myself To Death (version one; solo acoustic)
The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane (early version; banjo
by Tony)
A Love-In In An Oven
Seattle (early version)
Bake Your Bread Slowly
(Version
two, spring 1999)Never released, except for "Dance Myself To Death", with
John Kessel on bass, which came out on version three. A number of Jeff acoustic
songs recorded by John Kessel onto four-track, some master tapes were lost and
others fire-damaged.
Some of the tracks recorded:
Dance Myself To Death (version two)
Springtime (unfinished recording)
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Never released. 30 minute cassette album of Jeff acoustic boombox recordings.
Track 8 is based on a Joe Bendik song of the same title.
Tracks:
1) So Long (I'm Gonna Go Draw All Alone In My Shack)
2) Sea Song (early version)
3) The Miners and the Magic Rock
4) No Feelings in My Heart
5) Evil Pirate Song
6) Chicago (What's the Plan?)
7) Tower One and Tower Two
8) Nothing Bothers Me Anymore
9) Matter Can't Be Destroyed/So What
10) Kaleidoscope of Love
11) Alphabet ("guitar version of Aaron H.") (cuts
off) |