AS IF VINYL DIDN'T EXIST
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AS IF VINYL DIDN'T EXIST // NJ99 1984 CD/C60

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01. DORMITORY GIRLS (5:23)
02. LONGPLAYPHONOGRAPHICRECORDALBUMS (3:19)
03. PORT AUTHORITY (2:28)
04. INVISIBLE INTIMIDATION (2:10)
05. ON ABE (2:01)
06. THE GIRL WHO I PREFER (1:25)
07. EMPHASIGHS (1:16)
08. FIND ME A WIFE (2:42)
09. HARDIN SOFT (1:52)
10. FOR ROD SUMMERS (2:58)
11. BIG HEARTS (2:55)
12. ANXIETY VARIETY (3:04)


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13. OLD MAN BARE TABLE (1:52)
14. THE SONG IS YOU (3:32)
15. I WANT YOU IN MY LIFE AGAIN (3:05)
16. HEARS 2 JWH (7:07)
17. IT'S NOT WHERE HE WANTS HIS LIFE (4:50)
18. FIRST-HAND (6:09)
19. DANCIN' AT THE BANK (2:13)
20. NEW ROSE (2:29)

Total Time: (62:47)



RECORDED ON TAPE, AS TAPE, FOR TAPE, WITH TAPE, FROM TAPE, TAPE, TAPE, AND ONLY TAPE... AS IF...
ULTIMATE PARADOX #348: AFTER 6 YEARS WITH NO RECORDS, 1984 BEGINS WITH TWO ALBUM RELEASES PLANNED. IS THERE HOPE?

THIS C60 PRODUCED 1983-4 IN NEW JERSEY LOCATIONS BY RSM

GUEST ROSTER: NFD/CHRIS BOLGER/CHUCK MASCHI/IRWIN CHUSID/JIM PRICE/KAREN GRIFFIN/DAVID QUINLAN/LEE MILLER/MICHAEL JODRY/MARGAUX RAVIS/RAYVENS/NO PERFORMER/

THANKS TO HAMMERSMITH-KERN, HP, MOONDOG, VEC AUDIO, PETER OLAFSON, HARD SHARKS, CARD CHARTS, LENNY BRUCE, DADDY, FB, DONNA BLICHARZ, JEFF THE G, DON WILDMON, FRANK, HANK, WFMU, JON, ROLAND, SF, & BUDDAH.

DEDICATED TO PATRICK MATHE & PHILLIPE HUART

''you weren't expecting a crowd, were you''






amglogo.gif AMG REVIEW: As the title and liner notes to R. Stevie Moore's 99th cassette release (now available on CD through www.rsteviemoore.com) ruefully point out, 1984 marked the sixth year since Moore's last LP release, 1978's Delicate Tension, and although Moore actually had two vinyl releases within the next 12 months (What's the Point?!? on Cuneiform and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About R. Stevie Moore on New Rose), both were compilations focusing primarily on older, poppier material, which means that the often excellent but mostly more experimental songs on albums such as this are still largely unknown to all but Moore's most devoted fans. Highlights include the disarming opener "Dormitory Girls," a My Life in the Bush of Ghosts-style cut-up of a disapproving right-wing commentator over a funky, bass-driven instrumental track, and the lengthy guitar instrumental "Hears 2 JWH," as well as three reworkings of older Moore gems, lo-fi, deliberately noisy versions of "First-Hand" and "Find Me a Wife," and a curious new version of a key track from 1976's Phonography, "I Want You in My Life Again," which sounds like a dub-style remix of the original with the vocals distorted into incoherence, found-sound tape manipulations, and a prominent new Todd Rundgren-style piano part. Like the rest of the album, it's odd but immediately accessible, making As If Vinyl Didn't Exist one of Moore's strongest efforts from this period.

–Stewart Mason, All Music Guide







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