selected by Irwin Chusid
4 x C60
1981-1982
selected by Irwin Chusid
4 x C60
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01. My Life Is Not A Joke 02. Conflict of Interest 03. Heaven on Earth 04. And I Thought of You 05. When You Gonna Find Me a Wife 06. War Worse 07. One Moore Time 08. The Path of Joy 09. Oh Baby, Baby, Baby 10. For Vini |
11. Welcome to London 12. Baking It 13. Bloody Knuckles 14. Where you Reside 15. No Talking 16. Puttin' Up the Groceries 17. Copyright Infringement 18. Are You Gonna Thank Me 19. I Hate People 20. I Don't Think She Knows 21. Interlewd 22. I Wanna Hit You 23. Forecast 24. Even Tho |
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01. World's Fair 02. So be it Soviet 03. The Undertow 04. I just want to feel you 05. Eating paper, drinking ink 06. The Holocaust Parade 07. Compatibility Leaves 08. Silent Afterthought 09. You lost me 10. Chantilly lace 11. Column 88 12. Intermission |
13. Show Biz is dead 14. Pow Wow 15. Rock and Roll Kit 16. Makeup Shakeup 17. The Grave 18. Flowers sleep into the night 19. Quarter Peep Show 20. Love Has Doubt |
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01. Topic of Same 02. Love is for the Birds 03. Making Myself Miserable 04. Our Fabulous Communication 05. Right Perfume, Wrong Mouthwash 06. Flight of Fancy 07. For Janice, R.I.P. 08. Pop Pain 09. The Meeting that Couldn't Be 10. Back to free Art |
11. Idiot Opium 12. Let's Be Sad 13. Sort of Way 14. Debbie 15. The Government is Killing Us 16. Little Boys, Little Girls 17. Once and For All 18. Backbone Break 19. Request Line 20. No Publicity 21. Records |
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01. First-Hand 02. The Man in the Park 03. Teen Routines 04. New Strings 05. Adult Tree 06. Pasketti 07. I Hope That You Remember 08. Mr. Dyingly Sad 09. I Won't Forget 10. Misplacement 11. Eye of Hurricane David |
12. The Come-On 13. Dirty Woman 14. Why Can't I Write a Hit? 15. You in the Chair 16. Nadir 2 17. Jesus Christ 18. Play 19. Apologies to Mr. Gottlieb 20. Cannot Keep My Fingers Out of My Mouth 21. No Success Story |
These tightly edited cassettes formed the basis of the March 1984 EVERYTHING double album, having been mailed to Patrick Mathe in Paris to choose material from. They also sold quite well, and served an important promotional function in the early-mid eighties. Special thanks to Val Sebastiano for J-cards.
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review from The New Music Report, a bi-weekly supplement to CMJ Progressive Media, Mineola NY.
-JACKPOT- R. STEVIE MOORE Comp 1 (Cassette) (R. Stevie Moore, 105 Chestnut St., Montclair NJ 07042) – R. Stevie Moore takes the D.I.Y ideal to exciting new extremes. Almost everything he records is Moore solo with his instruments and machines. His material runs the gamut from punk to funk to country to pop to purely electronic doodling. The shear (sic) volume and variety of material is remarkable, yet quality is not compromised. While each set of ears will find some of Moore's stuff annoying and some wonderful, it always intrigues and stands up to repeated play. R. Stevie Moore is a substantial talent who deserves a wider audience. ~Bob Haber
–Stewart Mason, All Music Guide (2003) |
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AMG REVIEW: By 1983, R. Stevie Moore had been writing and recording his own music for a good 15 years (just about half his life at that point), but he had never done a proper compilation that provided an overview of his career to that point. With the help of his friend Irwin Chusid, Moore quickly rectified that with a series of four well-chosen best ofs. Instead of being arranged chronologically or by genre, Compilation 1 simply leads the listener through R. Stevie Moore's musical world in all its glorious oddity. Putting the proggy mid-'70s art rock of "Baking It" (from 1974's Apologies To Mr. Gottlieb) next to the shiny new wave synth-rock of the then-new "Bloody Knuckles" puts both into context. The song selection is nicely balanced between pop gems like the breathy "I Wanna Hit You" and the Jonathan Richman-like "Puttin' Up the Groceries," quirky novelties like "Welcome To London" and "Forecast" and tougher rock songs like "Conflict of Interest" and "When You Gonna Find Me A Wife." There is very little filler, and the album is also historically interesting for including many songs that have not appeared on any of the later R. Stevie Moore compilations, making Compilation 1 enjoyable for newcomers and fans alike.