Kilgore Trout
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Unreleased Recordings: POP SONGS
Play All- Microphonedownload
Some distance short of fully realised, but if you hold your breath and squint with your ears it sounds exactly like the Beatles.
- Childrendownload
Best version of this. Painstakingly programmed and recorded by Duncan Wheat some time in 1989. Given the distinctly non-pro tools D had to work with, it sounds fucking amazing. IMHO. My dictionary is a state-of-the-art Chambers model. It’s almost as fat as I am. But it doesn’t have “overarrangement” in it.
- Russiadownload
Russia was written in a bout of petulance following being ripped off by a guy in Broomhall while trying to buy an eighth of resin (at the time, Broomhall was the place to rip students off for trying to buy resin. I wasn't a student, but to the untried eye, the distinction would have been hard to make.) In retrospect, I'm sure that the drugs in Russia would neither have been impossible to find or worse than useless.
Best version of this. Painstakingly programmed and recorded by Duncan Wheat some time in 1989. Given the distinctly non-pro tools D had to work with, it sounds fucking amazing. IMHO. My dictionary is a state-of-the-art Chambers model. It’s almost as fat as I am. But it doesn’t have “overarrangement” in it.
- Rule One download
- Random Zone download
- Backbonedownload
Backbone is arguably better realised on the first Bear album, where Duncan's cod-reggae bassline and Ross's typically precise drumming give it muso-cred that it lacks here. But I love this version because it came about from a happy accident where Noel came round my house (for some other reason entirely) and ended up putting his bubbly pop-Wire bass on this guitar-vocal-drum machine thing I'd just finished. During the time when many of these 4-track things were made, my local off-licence had an offer where you got a free Maxell C90 tape with every four-pack of Kaltenberg Pils (a full-on Rheinheitsgebot number probably brewed in aluminium vats in Middlesbrough). This arrangement worked very well for me for much of 1988 and 1989.
- Basslizarddownload
One of those rare occasions where an attempt to re-create the atmosphere of the original version doesn’t abjectly fail. Entirely down to the revolutionary use of syndogs in the second verse, obv. For a How Not To, see the version from the Bad Puddings EP, of which an excited reviewer on Alternative Press kindly declared “sounds like Joy Division smashed into Big Black”. I’d love to have seen the expression on the face of anybody who bought it on the strength of that. It actually sounds like a paper bag blew gently past somebody who used to be in the Cure.
- Shoesdownload
In the late eighties, Duncan and I were both massive Pet Shop Boys fans who harboured a perverse and in hindsight reprehensible wish to hear bad PSB-wannabe music with noisy guitars and a man shouting. Unfortunately, a not very good band from London called Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine had had the idea before us. Not only that, they had had the additional idea of inserting at every opportunity puns that would make a ten year-old hide behind a cushion. Nobody ever went broke, etc. We were beaten from the off.
- HM One download
- Bad Puddingsdownload
Best version of this. Painstakingly programmed and recorded by Duncan Wheat some time in 1989. Given the distinctly non-pro tools D had to work with, it sounds fucking amazing. IMHO. My dictionary is a state-of-the-art Chambers model. It’s almost as fat as I am. But it doesn’t have “overarrangement” in it.