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Revision as of 20:50, 30 October 2022

Band (91-97)

  • Mostly a duo based in Chicago between David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke

Discography

Year Type Title Format Label Notes
1993 Album The Serpentine Similar LP/CD Teenbeat
1994 Single 20 Songs Less 7" Teenbeat
  • First release with Jim O'Rourke, last release with Bundy K. Brown
1994 Album Crookt, Crackt, Fly Drag City
  • "Work From Smoke" reuses a riff from Bastro's "Produkt"
  • "Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye" gets its lyrics from an anonymous 1645 poem sent to Colony of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley
  • "The C in Cake" gave Chicago indie pop band The Sea and Cake its name through a mishearing
1994 Comp Hey Drag City: "At Night and at Night" LP/CD Drag City
1994 EP Mirror Repair Drag City Cover: painting by Albert Oehlen
1995 EP The Harp Factory on Lake Street CD Table of the Elements
1995 Split "The Japanese Room at La Pagode" / "May" 7" Table of the Elements Split with Tony Conrad
1995 Comp Red Hot + Bothered: "Quietly Approaching" Kinetic
1996 Album Upgrade & Afterlife Drag City
  • "Our Exquisite Replica of 'Eternity'" is named after a knockoff gas station perfume[1] and samples 1957 science fiction film "The Incredible Shrinking Man"
  • "Rebecca Sylvester" is named after a road sign[2]
  • "Dry Bones in the Valley" is a John Fahey cover featuring Tony Conrad on violin. Jim O'Rourke would again explore combining Fahey and Conrad's styles on his 1997 piece "Happy Days"
1996 Comp The Christmas Album: "The Bells of St. Mary" Sony Japan Cover of Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans song[3][4]
1997 Comp Conflagration: "Nani?" CD Creativeman Remix of Ground-Zero
1998 Album Camoufleur Drag City "Black Horse" is a cover of Vietnamese folk song Lý Ngựa Ô

Bastro

Louisville punk band that grew into Gastr del Sol

Year Type Title Format Label Notes
1988 EP Rode Hard & Put Up Wet 12" Homestead
1989 Single "Shoot Me a Deer" / "Goiter Blazes" 7" Homestead
1989 Album Diablo Guapo LP/CD Homestead "Pretty Smart on My Part" is a Phil Ochs cover
1990 Split "Nothing Special" / "Flesh Colored House" 7" Clawfist Split with My Dad Is Dead covering each others' songs
1990 Album Sing the Troubled Beast LP/CD Homestead
1991 Split "A l'ombre de nous" / "Produkt" 7" Glitterhouse Split with Codeine
1993 Comp Teenbeat 50: "Sketch for Sleepy" LP Matador
2005 Comp Sing the Troubled Beast / Diablo Guapo CD Drag City Two-on-one-CD reissue supposedly only briefly in print
2005 Live Antlers: Live 1991 CD Drag City Most of these tunes were reappropriated for Gastr del sol
1. "A Watery Kentucky"
2. "Work From Smoke"
3. "Fool Summons Train"
4. "Produkt"
5. "Ursus Arctos Wonderfilis"
6. "For Soren Mueller"
7. "Dictionary of Handwriting"

Links

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/569882700775088128
  2. ↑ https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/569873580776927233
  3. ↑ https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/1208123076682158080
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/680238710449909761
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