Chinaboise - The Greatest Story Ever Told (c) 2005 Gulcher Records
Artist....: Chinaboise
Album.....: The Greatest Story Ever Told
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 16
Genre.....: Avantgarde
Rel.Date..: 22-07-2006
Label.....: Gulcher Records
Catalogue#: Gulcher 426
Encoder...: LAME 3.90.3 Mod VBR
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xq8ibkd9dak0
Tracklist:
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01 Time-Temp 00:17
02 Girl You Got It (So Go Get It) 02:15
03 Sodium Nitrate 01:46
04 Working Girl 03:50
05 Dear Tears 03:50
06 Self-Conscious Pisser 03:29
07 Walker Dallas 00:29
08 Demons In The Lone Star State 01:22
09 Take Two 02:12
10 Myonga Von Bontee 03:48
11 Breakfast At The Gables 05:34
12 The Greatest Story Ever Told (Work Is Hard) 02:22
13 Caught Between Dreams 02:53
14 Living On Oil 01:56
15 In The Sahara 07:03
16 Partners In Crime 00:56
Total:65,0 MBB / 44:02 min
Release Notes:
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Pre-MX-80 Sound member(s) project from 1975. Mostly low-fi pre-indie,
diy four track recordings. Simple songs, some samples, some
studio-comedy. Cool stuff, especially in light of how cool MX-80 became
(check our vinyl section). Those familiar with MX-80 will immediately
recognize the sax and the vocs,characteristically insincere,
ironic/sarcastic in their delivery of deep themes. While MX-80 blended
prog and jazz complexities w/ their driving rock this is definitely
more along the lines of Young Marble Giants or some other minimalist
songsmiths, when not doing their best to fill out the tracks with fun
pop.
1) old time and temperature phone-recording, brief
2) minor toned, pensive
3) silly dialog about a ôchickö, w/ sparse guitar and sax
4) acoustic guitar, female vocs w/the guy, some sax appears later
5) another simple song
6) jazz dissonant sparse guitar lead in, followed by sax and disjunct
beat, weird, very MX-80
7) brief sample, recording
8) simple flute/recorder accompanied ditty
9) fuzz guitar strange little song w/ female vocs
10) noodly lofi percussion jam w/ sax, etc, instrumental
11) radio comedy, about being in college, ôWMLOö LID, dialog Asharama
bakery, etc
12) ôwork is hardö, simple rock (FCC? Is that a brief ôshitö?)
13) upbeat proggy feel
14) slower swing, silly
15) FCC- a ôshitö, studio comedy, like standup vaudiville
16) brief silly little ditty