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PATHOS // NJ44 Jan1982 C90 / 2CD


DISC/SIDE ONE (74:56)

01. Me? Bitter?? (2:43)
02. Why Bye (3:33)
03. Vegetate (:48)
04. Santa Claus On A Cross (5:37)
05. The Man In The Park (3:09)
06. RPWM I'm Sorry (1:10)
07. More ID's by Roger (1:17)
08. Freedom At Last [version] (3:39)
09. Overworked And Underpaid (1:49)
10. Cassettes Are Best (:39)
11. My Name Is John (3:06)
12. Keep Busy (4:15)
13. Human Pathos Mix (3:29)
14. I Thought I Loved You (6:11)
15. Minneapolis (3:31)

BONUS TRACKS:
PIONEER PARAMUS NJ43 1981 C60 (A)
16. Ten Years Ago (3:46)
17. Customers (2:09)
18. My Friend Is Gone (3:09)
19. Letters From The Editor (4:49)
20. Toll Booths (2:44)
21. The Nashville Connection (2:02)
22. Frederick March (4:08)
23. I Don't Try Anymore (2:54)
24. Scale 12 NCR 280 (:46)
26. Duet For Two (1:54)
27. Ono (1:30)

DISC/SIDE TWO (74:56)

01. Song For Mother (6:20)
02. Up / Down (3:45)
03. It Is January (1:17)
04. Money Trickling In (2:36)
05. Kool Daddio Revisited (5:32)
06. Defeating The Purpose (5:04)
07. I'm Learning To Paint (2:30)
08. Turpentine Cocktail (2:16)
09. I'll Forget (4:07)
10. Boxed Dreams (2:44)
11. Out Of Breath (1:45)
12. Sketch For Margaux (1:58)
13. Fire And Rain (2:44)
14. You're A Little Baby (2:40)

BONUS TRACKS:
PIONEER PARAMUS (B)
15. (We're) Couch Potatoes (2:34)
16. Peaks And Valleys (3:56)
17. Medium Dark Walls (5:20)
18. Where's That Girl (2:07)
19. Just Imagine It's Cold (1:57)
20. No. 1 In A Series (4:11)
21. Mixamatic (2:22)
22. Hey Boy I Tell You I Hate Girls (1:58)
23. My Job (3:19)
24. One Mike, On The Air (1:43)


Nov Dec Jan 1981-82
with various pals
177 Park St & 429 Valley Rd
Upper Montclair NJ



AMG REVIEW: 1982's Pathos starts out slowly, with a stretch of songs that sound a little too similar, but once it picks up steam, it's one of R. Stevie Moore's most enjoyably quirky outings of the early '80s. It's certainly wide-ranging, jumping from a found-sound description of how cassettes and four-track recorders were going to jump-start the DIY home recording revolution (which turned out to be true) to "My Name Is John," a tape of some child babbling and singing songs off the top of his head into a cassette recorder, to which Moore added musical backing, to "Keep Busy," an entirely credible early white-guy rap. The highlight is "I Thought I Loved You," a lengthy instrumental featuring a mandolin-like lead guitar part and some nearly inaudible, ghostly vocals. The CD version of Pathos is paired with Pioneer Paramus, a selection of songs, mostly instrumentals, in a variety of styles recorded around the same time. As always, Moore writes some of the most interesting instrumentals around; there's a fascinatingly sparse dub-style exploration called "Song For Mother" on Pathos; but too many of these sound like sketches waiting for a vocal melody and some beefed-up instrumentation. The main exception is one of the few vocal tracks, the incantatory "Customers," which sounds like a cross-breeding experiment between David Byrne and the Residents.

–Stewart Mason, All Music Guide



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