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PURPOSE // NJ167 1986 C90/2CD


ONE (69.50)

01. Purpose (4.57)
02. Back In Time (4.37) video
03. I Love You Too Much To Bother You (3.11)
04. Blue Hawaii Ball (4.52)
05. I Will Want To Die (4.52) video
06. Thank Hank (3.10) video
07. Bricks In My Pillow (3.50)
08. Rain (3.23)
09. Girl (5.10)
10. Hobbies Galore (4.14)
11. It's Luv! (2.33)
12. Love Is For The Birds (3.49)

Bonus Tracks:
13. I Love You Too Much To Bother You (3.19) studio vers

Solo Live at Lone Star Cafe NYC
Thu 17 July 1986
New Music Seminar Unsigned Band Showcase
14. Everyone But Everyone (3.22)
15. I Love You Too Much To Bother You (6.30)
16. Chantilly Lace (2.16)
17. Who Killed Davey Moore? (5.37)




TWO (70.40)

01. T.C.O.'R.S.' (2.47)
02. The Cover Of 'Rolling Stone' (2.56)
03. Davimor (.44)
04. Good Morning, Marry Me (4.42)
05. Goodby (4.27)
06. Crime Wave (6.33)
07. I'll Be Back (2.34)
08. Don't Ask Me (.34)
09. Am I Ugly? (3.33)
10. Friendzy (2.24)
11. Social Purgatory (1.28)
12. A Thing About Thing (3.58)
13. Blues For Cathy Taylor -orig mix (4.09)
14. Please Let Me Sleep (4.55)
15. Test Pattern (2.30)

Bonus Tracks:
Live Lone Star, Continued

16. Warmth of the Sun/Shakin' in the Sixties (5.25)
17. I Like To Stay Home (4.04)
18. Chantilly Laced (2.12)
19. Broken Art (1.51)
20. There's Nothin As Sweet As My Baby (2.00)
21. Colliding Circles (3.23)
22. I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday (1.43)
23. I'm Milton Berle (1.37)

lee miller 01
chris bolger 01
ralph carney 04
jim price 04
bill berger 04
frank balesteri 04
minny pops 08
irwin chusid 09
lee miller 09
frank balesteri 09
chris bolger 09
lee miller 11
chris bolger 11
frank balesteri 11
jim price 12

dean thomas 02
jim price 04
dean thomas 04
jim price 07
donna blicharz 07
jim price 09
irwin chusid 12
lee miller 12
jim price 12
chris bolger 12
jim price 13
lee miller 14
chris bolger 14
jim price 14
irwin chusid 14

W F M U October 1984: (A9,11, B12,14)
DUNGEON STUDIO (Maplewood) Bolger, eng: (A10,12, B1,2,13)
WFMU Sun 2 Feb 1986 (A4)
Remainder at someone's home, perhaps.

it'sathingathingaboutthingohiseethismakesmuchmoresensebutwhat
doesyouraudiencethinkofsuchconsistencyohiseethey'vecometoexpect
totalsatisfactionbecausetheyknowthat'swhattheyalwaysget

andthenthetaperunsoutandyou'rethinkingsoyesthistapeissurefullof
differentkindsofideaswhoisthisguyandwho'shearingthisstuffbesidesme
shouldireallyturnitoveranddaretolistentoanotherlongplayingprogramorjustfileit



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(from "Thank Hank" video)




AMG REVIEW: One of R. Stevie Moore's best mid-'80s tapes, 1986's Purpose is both a freewheeling whirl through Moore's usual panoply of musical styles, and a key step in the development of what many consider his finest LP, 1987's Teenage Spectacular. Several of Moore's best-loved songs from this era are here, including two takes of the daffy but sweet "I Love You Too Much To Bother You," the brooding ballad "Back In Time," and the ghostly, abstract "I Will Want To Die." The disc also includes the definitive new version of "Hobbies Galore," one of Moore's most beautiful songs, originally recorded in 1975, and a terrific countryish rocker, "Thank Hank," penned by Moore's old Nashville buddy Victor Lovera, as well as the fine instrumental title track, the tongue-in-cheek blues "Bricks In My Pillow" (featuring the most deliberately obtrusive fake vinyl noise ever), and completely reworked versions of the Beatles' "Rain" and "Girl" that set John Lennon's lyrics to entirely different melodies and chord progressions. The two-disc CD version also includes Live at Lone Star Café, a July 17, 1986, gig that was part of the Unsigned Showcase series at the CMJ New Music Seminar. This is an enjoyably shambolic guitar-and-vocals set in which Moore casually weaves together snippets of original songs and unexpected covers, bridging in between them with a distinctive recurrent guitar motif that later showed up on Moore's version of Bob Dylan's "Who Killed Davey Moore?" on Teenage Spectacular, and cracking a few amusing one-liners along the way.

–Stewart Mason, All Music Guide



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