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Favoriting September 29, 2020: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Medicine Suite, Tear Jerks, Blastoidz, & Vibraband [PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.]

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Artist Track Album Label Year
 
Medicine Suite  Kathleen   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  When It Rains   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Meathook   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Somnambulist   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Pious on High   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Lullabye D-Version   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Trust   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Beautiful Song #1   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
 
Medicine Suite  Anti-Religion   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Lullabye   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Helen   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Towers   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Salvation   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Tipper Gore   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Beautiful Song #2   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
Medicine Suite  Medicine Suite Is Here   Favoriting Medicine Suite  no label  198? 
 
Tear Jerks  Walking Girl   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  It's Friday   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  Orchid   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  Too Shy To   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  Puzzles   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  I Don't Know You Anymore   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  Where Did the Angels Go?   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  untitled hidden track   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
 
Tear Jerks  I Look into Your Eyes, You Look into My Eyes   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  Splash 1   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  The Sea She Said   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  Chances Are   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  Running Out of Memories   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
Tear Jerks  No Matter What   Favoriting Tear Jerks  Duck Ducks Products  199? 
 
Blastoidz  Flu Blues (Fuzzy Meatcake)   Favoriting Elegant Trappings  no label  1985 
Blastoidz  Mammoth Strides (Fizz)   Favoriting Elegant Trappings  no label  1985 
Blastoidz  One Taste of Cold Perplexity (Nitrous Scam)   Favoriting Elegant Trappings  no label  1985 
 
Blastoidz  The Mysterious Circumstances Surrounding the Disappearance of the Celebrated Sir Selig Arnowe (Reality Factor Zero)   Favoriting Elegant Trappings  no label  1985 
Blastoidz  Mohemahne (Fizz)   Favoriting Elegant Trappings  no label  1985 
Blastoidz  My Arts Are Rising (Nitrous Scam)   Favoriting Elegant Trappings  no label  1985 
 
Vibraband  Vibraband Intro / Slimmering Glimpse   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  May 31st   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  Tone Poem / Glass Piece   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  Wheel   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  Ice   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  Before the Hunt   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  The Hunt   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  Dianne   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  Manny Slabbs   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  Xylophobia   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  Foam & 4 Arms   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  4/26 AM   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
Vibraband  Forest Park   Favoriting Vibraband  Nowhere Records  1986 
 
Group Du Jour  Shooting Stars at Midheaven   Favoriting The Mystery Plays  New Weave  1992 
The Out-Theme  Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]   Favoriting      


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  11:56am
Dean:

Nektar, Recycled
Avatar 11:59am
Tony Coulter:

Yes! You got it. And I was just about to ask if anyone recognized it....
Avatar 11:59am
Tony Coulter:

We're talking about today's mystery LP under the cassettes.
  12:00pm
Dean:

Almost said Remember the Future, but thought better of it.
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Yvang:

Hiya Tony, Dean, listeners! Yeah! Tape hiss time!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
listener james from westwood:

How do, Tony and all!
Avatar 12:03pm
Tony Coulter:

Hiya, Yvang and James!
Avatar 12:06pm
Tony Coulter:

This Medicine Suite tape is the black one on the left of the playlist photo.
Avatar 12:08pm
Sonderangebot:

Hi Tony, nice fitting music for the doom and gloom here.
  12:10pm
Dean:

G'morning, all.
Avatar 12:10pm
Tony Coulter:

Hiya, Sonderangebot!

Yes, a bit of discordant chaos is always refreshing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
Sem:

Hello, Tony, and all. Thiss piece is angel-khissed.
Avatar 12:12pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey there, Sem!
  12:14pm
Dean:

One day you should play a set of tracks from mystery LPs you've featured.
Avatar 12:15pm
Tony Coulter:

Good idea! I might just do that.
Avatar 12:20pm
Listening Out There:

Hi, Tony. Is it smoky yet in the Portland area? Further north, we're supposed to get it later today... :(
  12:20pm
Dean:

Was horribly smoky here a couple days ago in the Bay Area. It's been unpleasantly hot, too.
Avatar 12:21pm
Tony Coulter:

Sorry to hear that, L.O.T.. Out here, we're finally smoke-free. Makes me appreciate simple things like air you can actually breathe.
  12:28pm
Dane:

Any idea where Medicine Suite were from? Any info on the tape?
Avatar 12:30pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, Dane! There's zero info, other than the track titles: no label name, no date, no listing of members, no contact info ... nada.
Avatar 12:31pm
Tony Coulter:

So, no, I don't know where they were from....
  12:38pm
Dean:

I have some details about the band. Hang on...
Avatar 12:38pm
Tony Coulter:

I know they have a track on one of the Lowlife comps: www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Stanley:

Ye Gods. I had to get out of the bath to see what all this noise was about.
Tape Hiss -I could've guessed.
Hi Tony.
Avatar 12:40pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, Stanley! Put a towel on.
  12:41pm
Dean:

Right. Athens, GA, seems to be the provenance. "Throughout the '80s, Benjamin instigated a legacy of impudence, beginning with his first band, a provocational punk-inspired outfit called Eastern Stars, and later in Freedom Puff. It was during these seminal years that Benjamin, born in 1960 as Robert Dickerson, caught the eye of Glen Thrasher, publisher of LowLife magazine. The two became friends, roommates and even bandmates in the group Medicine Suite. Thrasher (also the driving force behind the annual Destroy All Music festivals in the '80s, and host of the noise radio show of the same name on Georgia Tech's radio station 91.1 FM/WREK) became one of Benjamin's earliest proponents. Over the course of their 20-year friendship, he played Benjamin's recordings on the radio, published interviews in LowLife, and even included a few songs on compilations that came with the last few issues of the magazine." -- Flagpole, Feb. 11, 2004.
  12:42pm
Dean:

Full article is about 1500 words. "Five years after his death, Benjamin's presence lives on, not in chords, melodies and harmonies, but in the philosophies of national artists as varied as R.E.M., Patti Smith, Vic Chesnutt and Cat Power, and local acts American Dream, Ladies Night and Hubcap City (From Belgium)."
Avatar 12:43pm
Tony Coulter:

Ah, thanks, Dean!
  12:43pm
Dean:

I'll send you the full article.
Avatar 12:44pm
Tony Coulter:

Great! Thanks again.
  12:57pm
Dane:

I wonder if they ever made it to the PMRC's attention with Tipper Gore
  12:59pm
Dane:

Found the article
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn94029049/2004-02-11/ed-1/seq-32/
  1:01pm
Dane:

Punk!
Avatar 1:31pm
Tony Coulter:

This tape comes with a little insert advert for the then-upcoming second Tear Jerks tape -- which they promise is twice as depressing as this one.
Avatar 1:34pm
Tony Coulter:

The track on now ("Splash 1") is a 13th Floor Elevators cover.
Avatar 1:45pm
Tony Coulter:

Everyone's gotten very quiet. Hope this tape hasn't plunged you into a deep depression.
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Yvang:

I don't find this depressing. Rather melancholic.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Yvang:

Okay this not an upbeat cassette which the buyer finds easy to dance to!
Avatar 1:49pm
Tony Coulter:

This is very close to The Tinklers -- who I love. As you say, melancholic and weirdly touching, with a touch of buried humor.
Avatar 1:51pm
Tony Coulter:

Once again, this is sort of a Tinklers side-project.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:57pm
Yvang:

Blastoids (class Blastoidea) are an extinct type of stemmed echinoderm, often referred to as sea buds.(Wikipedia)
Avatar 1:58pm
Tony Coulter:

Ha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:01pm
Yvang:

With a beautiful illustration by Ernst Haeckel upload.wikimedia.org...
  2:18pm
Mind's Ear:

Hi Tony. Enjoying the show today! Listening in from Nashville on a cool, sunny day. Found your show a few weeks ago and I try to listen every week now. Love these Tape Hiss shows!
  2:19pm
Dane:

I've always loved the idea of one band doing a fake compilation. More people should do it.
Avatar 2:20pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, Mind's Ear! Welcome. Glad you found the show!
Avatar 2:27pm
Tony Coulter:

The Portland club/space where this Vibraband tape was recorded live was called PDXS -- as in PD-excess, PDX-excess.
  2:28pm
Dean:

Where was/is it? (Sorry, was out running errands.)
Avatar 2:31pm
Tony Coulter:

Don't know! Don't think it's around any more. (Tho I haven't really checked, so....).

By the way, I found this tape in that weird record store Variety Shop, on 50th, at the intersection of Foster & Powell. (Something that won't mean anything to those not in Portland.)
  2:46pm
Hungry Freak:

Vibraband / Any other work?Zappaesque?
Avatar 2:48pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, Hungry Freak! I was going to say they're not Zappa-esque ... but this part kind of is!

Don't know of anything else by them....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:51pm
listener james from westwood:

OZ/NZ prog sounds like a reason to keep getting outta bed between then and now! Early thanks for the fine oxide today—put me in a sort of Zen state while proofing!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:55pm
Yvang:

Thanks for the Cassettes du jour, Tony!
Avatar 2:56pm
Tony Coulter:

You're welcome! And thanks for showing up, everybody! See you next week, I hope....
  2:59pm
Mind's Ear:

Thanks again Tony!
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