TRIAL AND ERROR // NJ54 1982 CD/C60 - now available as 2CD set with How Can You Resist??
01. the right words (4.09)
02. amoeba? (.33)
03. eyes eyes eyes (3.30)
04. we fall out of windows (holding hands) (2.27)
05. lost away (3.43)
06. little boys little girls (3.18)
07. college radio weight problems (.40)
08. the myth of mystique (2.45)
09. girls who eat cum (2.27)
10. leftovers (1.15)
11. sheetmusic73 (1.07)
12. the garbage state (3.48)
13. trial & error (2.41)
14. the shoplifter saga (5.54)
15. time of wandering (1.17)
16. umbrella (1.38)
17. rightwords (4.02)
18. follow the road (2.05)
19. fasty schoolgirl (1.31)
20. cats (.59)
21. the runs (1.56)
22. pin the tail on the donkey (1.39)
23. girls jogging by (2.15)
24. diddntdntdntdnt (.26)
25. this is no time for foolishness (2.43)
26. nasal passage (2.57)
27. that food is stale (5.49)
Bonus track:
28. wfmu playlist 7-26-82 (4.46)
Total Time: 72.24
but another C60 from the decks of obscurity
july aug sept 1982
429 valley road montclair nj
assistants:Jim Price/Irwin Chusid/Chris Bolger/Margaux R/Szzn. G./Marcia Manowitz/Michelle Loglisci/John Gottschall/Mark Cudnik/Donna Goldberg/Sam Goodys Paramus/WFMU/We Love You Boxheads
AMG REVIEW: 1982's Trial and Error isn't as inconsistent as its name implies; while it's not one of R. Stevie Moore's finest albums, it's a better-than-average sampling of the pop-based but increasingly experimental work Moore was doing in the early '80s. Moving away from the new wave pop of the Clack! era into a more idiosyncratic blend of cool, bass-heavy, keyboard-led instrumentals (the best of which has an unfortunately pornographic title), angular shards of noisy experimental rock like "The Garbage State," the clattering synth rock "That Food Is Stale," the falsetto "Pin the Tail on the Donkey," and odd little experiments like the found-sound "Follow the Road," a tape of Moore improvising a song in the course of being driven to his apartment. More accessible than some of his albums from this period, Trial and Error has enough of interest, particularly in the consistently solid instrumentals, to be worthwhile.
AMG REVIEW: 1982's Trial and Error isn't as inconsistent as its name implies; while it's not one of R. Stevie Moore's finest albums, it's a better-than-average sampling of the pop-based but increasingly experimental work Moore was doing in the early '80s. Moving away from the new wave pop of the Clack! era into a more idiosyncratic blend of cool, bass-heavy, keyboard-led instrumentals (the best of which has an unfortunately pornographic title), angular shards of noisy experimental rock like "The Garbage State," the clattering synth rock "That Food Is Stale," the falsetto "Pin the Tail on the Donkey," and odd little experiments like the found-sound "Follow the Road," a tape of Moore improvising a song in the course of being driven to his apartment. More accessible than some of his albums from this period, Trial and Error has enough of interest, particularly in the consistently solid instrumentals, to be worthwhile.
