Showing posts with label Ed's Redeeming Qualities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ed's Redeeming Qualities. Show all posts

14 December 2017

ED'S REDEEMING QUALITIES It's All Good News 1991

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Tracklist  

1 She Ate The Fly
2 Blood Bank Man
3 King Of Calypso
4 Falls Church, Virginia
5 Someone Else In The Room
6 I'm Not Drinking, Hm Hm
7 Fortune Teller
8 Lighthouse
9 Forget
10 Think
11 Random
12 Caucasian Spiritual
13 The Curse
14 Bad Supper
15 Bad Coffee
16 The Letter
17 Lawyers & Truckers
18 Christmas In Vermont

13 December 2017

ED'S REDEEMING QUALITIES More Bad Times 1990

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Artist Biography by

A quirky folk group who defy an easy placement in genre, Ed's Redeeming Qualities' instrumentation -- guitar, violin, ukulele, bongos, accordion, cardboard bass, and drum -- suggests folk music and the songs run the gamut of influences from rock, country, calypso, and klezmer. A reviewer described them as the "David Lynch of folk music," which is as apt a description as anyone has come up with. With a penchant for writing simple, affecting melodies with sophisticated wordplay that makes one either laugh out loud, smile, or scratch one's head in confusion (and sometimes all three simultaneously) along with live performances that ran the gamut from brilliant to painful, ERQ amassed a strong cult following, which hasn't subsided with the band's demise. 

Tracklist  

1 Camouflage
2 Spoken Word
3 Bob
4 Sad
5 The Boy I Work With
6 Buck Tempo
7 Cheese Grater
8 Too Pretty
9 A Little Thing
10 New Distributor Cap
11 Things That Scare Me
12 Virginia
13 Lawn Dart
14 Mrs. Price
15 I'm Not Eating, I'm Not Anything
16 Poem
17 More Bad Times

20 September 2011

100 WATT SMILE And Reason Flew 1999

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This is the only release I have of them at this time.

From Wikipedia

100 Watt Smile was an eclectic grunge-styled band with country influences that was founded in 1994 by singer/songwriter Carrie Bradley (formerly of Ed's Redeeming Qualities and The Breeders) and drummer Michael Hart. The band's lineup soon expanded to contain Scott Greiner on guitar and Scott Houston on bass.

The band provided a vehicle for the quirky songwriting that Bradley was known for during her days with Ed's Redeeming Qualities, with her quiet, breathy vocals and signature violin work juxtaposed against heavy electric guitar and bass and driving percussion. Indeed, their 1999 debut album, And Reason Flew, begins with an updated version of Bradley's haunting song New Jersey, which first appeared on the Ed's Redeeming Qualities album Big Grapefruit Cleanup Job.

The band followed up with a second, eponymous album in 2001; after the release of this album, information about the subsequent activities of the band and its members is scarce, at best. Carrie Bradley has recently been spotted as part of the San Francisco musical duo The Great Auk