A 1999 release from
Modesto,
California's
Grandaddy. This -- not unlike
Green Day's
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours -- was a compilation of two
EP's (and one extra track),
A Pretty Mess By This One Band and
Machines Are Not She.
Not printed in the U.S. but you can get the import disc for only $14.99. Well worth the space in your cd rack.
Tracks are:
- Gentle Spike Resort1 - spaced-out acoustic guitar with high octave organ needling about a
garage band
- Wretched Songs2 - A typical indie-popper with Grandaddy's signature keyboard arpeggios
- Levitz2 - Slow and plodding lyrics and rhythm over distorted keybord, typical beautiful granddy
- Away Birdies With Special Sounds1 - Acoustic guitar laid over a warped voice that provides
almose a drone effect. Very eerie
- Kim, You Bore Me to Death1 - a Yo La Tengo-esque screamer
- For the Dishwasher2 - Soft and spacey, driven by the lyrics
- Pre-Merced1 - Similar to more recent of their offerings, this is an organ and distortion
driven tune.
- Sikh in a Baja VW Bug2 - Spoken rhymes leading into falsetto and fast plodding rock
- Lava Kiss2 - A Pavement-like slow tune
- Fentry2 - After a sample at the beginning, this is an soft, guitar-line driven instrumental
- Taster1 - Another more typical Pavement-like song
- Egg Hit and Jack Too1 - Drums and distortion start a big rave-up and jam that settles into
some cello to end the disc (not counting the hidden track)
- You Drove Your Car Into a Moving Train.3 HIDDEN - A quiet vocal driven track.
1 - found on A Pretty Mess By This One Band
2 - found on Machines Are Not She
3 - found on The Complex Party Come Along Theories (only 200 copies made)