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SAMPLE FOR APPROVAL // NJ28 1978 C90 / 2CD

DISC/SIDE ONE (68:11)
01. Pretend For A Second That You Are Very Intelligent (3:05)
02. Masterpiece Of Flesh (2:30)
03. New Wave (4:10) more
04. Jump Out In Front Of A Car (1:55)
05. Symphony For One Instrument In Eight Movements (2:34)
06. Down At The Station (4:30)
07. Bloody Knuckles (2:48)
08. Cannot Get Any Satisfaction (:52)
09. Happily Married (1:18)
10. Technical Difficulty (2:44)
11. Don't Be Ridiculous (2:00)
12. Society In General (2:02)
13. Girls Are Good (1:50)
14. Low In Nutrition (6:15)
15. Rocking Chair Theory (1:23)
16. Oh Baby Baby Baby (2:13)
17. Beyond This Point (1:41)
18. It's Happening Again (4:27)

  Bonus Tracks:
19-21. RSM's 1st WFMU Performance, 11-4-78 pt. 1
    (Is This Vocal Mike On?/Rookie/Answering Service/
    Decade Unknown/Zipper Victor)



DISC/SIDE TWO (65:38)
01. WFMU Identifications (1:10)
02. Mia Tua (Li'l Wally) (2:41)
03. Cannot Keep My Fingers Out Of My Mouth (4:11)
04. Sometimes I'm Sorry (4:48)
05. Frenchorn (5:42)
06. I Overunderstand (1:49)
07. Once Your Love (2:18)
08. Teen Routines (2:23)
09. Spaces/The Leathershop (12:15)
10. Girlwish (2:50)
11. Take It Easy (2:53)
12. Refried Boogie (3:55)
13. Signoff (Count-off) (1:45)

  Bonus Tracks:
14-23. RSM's 1st WFMU Performance, 11-4-78 pt. 2
    (From C To Dm/ET3400/Plenty of Ball Action/Pattern/Need A Cheeseburger/
    Let's Forget the Beatles/Stoddard/Hello List/Bobby's Trumpet)



Another tape produced in New Jersey 1978, with small
acknowledgements to Mark Cudnik, James Randolph, Suzanne
Griffin, Charley Stoddard, Chris Bolger, Jim Price, Irwin Chusid, Jim
Pansulla, Margot Ravis, Paul Sobolik, Max Wermuth, Roger Ferguson,
Harry & Dawn, Jim Coffman and others indirectly.


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Composed by Moore, except:
1/8 Jagger/Richard
2/7 Lovera
2/11 Frey/Browne

Thanks to Szzn. G & Rich La Bonte for graphiques.




AMG REVIEW: On his fourth album of 1978, R. Stevie Moore goes into a more experimental and artsy direction than its immediate predecessor, the new wave power pop of Games and Groceries. The songs tend to be more electronic and angular, growing from the previous album's early synth-pop experiments "I Go Into Your Mind" and "Horizontal Hideaway." One of these, the purely electronic, dirge-like "Bloody Knuckles," became one of Moore's best-known tracks from this period, becoming a staple on several pioneering college radio stations, including northern New Jersey's own WFMU, where Moore had just begun working. (Both the faux-blues "Down at the Station" and the self-explanatory "WFMU Identifications" concern life in low-power college radio. The CD version of Sample for Approval includes the entirety of Moore's first in-studio radio session for the station as well.) Several other songs; including the loping, chanted opener "Pretend for a Second That You Are Very Intelligent" and the doomy synth-based instrumental "Symphony for One Instrument in Four Movements"; sound heavily influenced by the Residents, who Moore namechecks for the second time in six months on the scene-celebrating "New Wave." Other highlights include the woozy new wave psychedelia of "Technical Difficulties," a brief Fripp/Eno-like instrumental called "Society in General," and the charming power pop rocker "Teen Routines."

–Stewart Mason, All Music Guide






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