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    07/31/2001 | Troubleman Unlimited 

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    All Music Guide Review

    The word from the Troubleman Unlimited label is that this two-disc, 52-track compilation has been in the works for over four years. According to the liner notes, it consists of tracks by label head Mike Simonetti's "favorite bands at the moment," or presumably, his favorite bands of several moments, spanning a period of about four years. Simonetti's favorite bands, as it turns out, are pretty obscure, and there's nothing wrong with that; the fact that no one has ever heard of Pixeltan just makes the avant-grunge funk of "Itchy Cable" that much more fun and the Throwing Muses tribute band Subtonix that much cuter. Then there's Erase Errata, an all-woman band who combines Gang of Four with Bikini Kill to very nice effect (and whose debut full-length was released on Troubleman Unlimited simultaneously with this compilation). But as one might expect, the material is incredibly uneven and the sound is often atrocious. (Simonetti is aware of this, and the Troubleman Unlimited website features a strangely ambivalent apology and a promise that the sound will be improved on the next pressing.) The highly adventurous will find some gems here, but only the most intrepid will have the stoutness of heart needed to slog through the detritus to find them. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • 1
  • Intro
  • Davis, Miles
  • 1:04

  • 2
  • Waiting for the Snake Assasin
  • Lightning Bolt
  • 3:23

  • 3
  • Pleasures of Greed and Pain
  • Burmese
  • 1:16

  • 4
  • One Minute
  • Crash Smash Explode
  • 1:50

  • 5
  • Iron Curtain
  • Red Scare
  • 2:04

  • 6
  • Fungry
  • Rah Bras
  • 1:29

  • 7
  • Father
  • Blonde Redhead
  • 2:15

  • 8
  • Lord Dorpal
  • Crom-Tech
  • :41

  • 9
  • How We Got on Kill Rock Stars
  • Harriet The Spy
  • 1:58

  • 10
  • Essential Nutrients
  • Red Monkey
  • 2:58

  • 11
  • Black Tap
  • Hex
  • 1:51

  • 12
  • Curse of Boredom
  • Petty Crime
  • 1:41

  • 13
  • Freak the Funk
  • !!!
  • 5:29

  • 14
  • Cat. Garbage. Love
  • Xbxrx
  • 1:18

  • 15
  • Sell Yourself
  • Bad Form
  • 2:08

  • 16
  • Solitary While Amongst (Remix)
  • Convocation Of...
  • 4:34

  • 17
  • We Love Choco-Pa
  • Melt Banana
  • :18

  • 18
  • The Evening Beat
  • Song Of Zarathustra
  • 2:41

  • 19
  • Total Assymmetry
  • Flying Luttenbachers
  • 4:05

  • 20
  • Stake Fin
  • Black Dice
  • :29

  • 21
  • Over the Flat Earth
  • Fucking Champs
  • 2:07

  • 22
  • Who Put Out the Fire?
  • Monorchid
  • 3:04

  • 23
  • (Untitled Track)
  • Crainium
  • 3:06

  • 24
  • Summer of Twelve Thousand Years
  • Intima
  • 1:34

  • 25
  • 2-9476
  • 2:20

  • 26
  • Faster Than Arrows
  • Lovesick [2]
  • 2:25

  • 27
  • Pulp
  • Sunshine
  • 3:23

  • 28
  • September
  • Secret Stars
  • 2:46

  • 29
  • Lost and Found
  • Turn-Offs
  • 1:58

  • 30
  • Sailing the Sea of Hoag...
  • Excelsior
  • 2:24

  • 31 (2)
  • Live in Texas
  • White, Barry
  • 2:05

  • 32 (2)
  • I'm Two Dimensional
  • Men's Recovery Project
  • :16

  • 33 (2)
  • Get the Fuck Out of My Office
  • Men's Recovery Project
  • :43

  • 34 (2)
  • Itchy Cable
  • Pixeltan
  • 4:04

  • 35 (2)
  • Emporor Selassie's Morning Wood
  • Outhud
  • 2:37

  • 36 (2)
  • The Perils of Believing in Round Squares
  • Locust
  • :54

  • 37 (2)
  • Joy
  • Love Life
  • 4:47

  • 38 (2)
  • Night Nurses
  • Glass Candy And The Shattered Theatre
  • 6:37

  • 39 (2)
  • Eight
  • Lack
  • 1:57

  • 40 (2)
  • Red Lights Again
  • Radio 4
  • 3:13

  • 41 (2)
  • Cooter's Groove
  • Sea Tiger
  • 3:01

  • 42 (2)
  • Paris
  • Currituck Country
  • 3:26

  • 43 (2)
  • A Few Lights Slipping
  • Six Parts Seven
  • 2:19

  • 44 (2)
  • Lazslo
  • Unwound
  • 4:56

  • 45 (2)
  • Brief Sting Harvesting
  • Erase Errata
  • 1:36

  • 46 (2)
  • The Practice (Dub)
  • All-Scars
  • 4:13

  • 47 (2)
  • Walking from Kosala
  • Kepler
  • 6:21

  • 48 (2)
  • Black Nails in Your Coffin
  • Subtonix
  • 3:00

  • 49 (2)
  • Last Minute Jane Doe, No. 2
  • Bride Of No No
  • 7:07

  • 50 (2)
  • Nobody Likes a Nomad (Live)
  • Touchdown [2]
  • 2:00

  • 51 (2)
  • One
  • Total Shutdown
  • :58

  • 52 (2)
  • Famous Amos
  • Pink & Brown
  • 2:22

    • Credits

    • Mick
    • Guitar, Drums
    • Dave
    • Guitar, Vocals
    • Joel
    • Guitar, Vocals


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