Fingerpainting

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"George III"	1:50
2.	"Bad Medicine"	3:30
3.	"A Hybrid Creature of Greed, Ignorance and Powers of Comprehension Plays a Vaulted Drum Kit. The Playing Corresponds Completely to the Event. There Are Entrances and Exits. And There Is Gravitation, Where It Is Needed - Tears for Example"	2:22
4.	"There There Betty Betty"	2:29
5.	"The Greed of a Clarinet That Is Puffy from Crying Gets Tossed in Butter and Spread by Notes. This Process Depresses the Entire Orchestra So Much That It Only Plays Behind a Golden Partition. The Partition Is Decorated With Semi-Precious Attractive Diamonds"	4:41
6.	"Vile Vile Grass"	2:31
7.	"A Sow With an Abbess's Bonnet Is Sitting on Four Rock-Objects and Singing Along With Them. The Song Sounds Like a Cheater, And Is Imprisoned in a Striped Toy Box Because Its Aims Are Not Recognizable. On Top of the Box Is a Head That Could Be Elvis's, If He Had Survived This"	5:48
8.	"Mother"	2:16
9.	"Out of a Trombone That Is Divided Lengthways by a Partition of Gold Sound Seven Violins of Dynamite That Are Cut Sideways into Thin Slices. They Are Played by the Thrown Out Ex-Members of a Very Bad Band and Blown Up"	4:17
10.	"In My Baby's Ruth, Sandy's Drums With David & Shadwell, Filthy Lucre"	15:02

Background

• Contains many of the band's earliest songs
• Album structure mimicking The Parable of Arable Land
• Concept was Albert Oehlen's idea
• Fingerpointing

Personnel

Musicians

David Grubbs, George Hurley, Elisa Randazzo, Albert Oehlen, Stephen Prina, Mayo Thompson, Tom Watson, Sandy Yang

Sampled musicians

Frederick Barthelme, Steve Cunningham, Bobby Henschen

Cover art

Designed by Christopher Williams.

Links

• Album on Wikipedia
• Album on Discogs