Saturday, February 2, 2008

Rain Parade - Demolition (1991)

As it's title should literally imply, Demolition is a rare, 19-track CD of studio demos, specifically for the Crashing Dream album, which I uploaded here last August. Crashing Dream may not have been as arresting as Rain Parade's classic debut, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, and as such, a collection of demos and outtakes for that album will only appeal to die-hard fans. That's pretty much the idea here. The demo incarnation of CD's arguably finest entry, "Mystic Green," sparkles as iridescently as the LP version, and some of Demolition's entirely unreleased outtakes, including "TV Stone," "Novacaine," and "Crashing Dream," which strangely enough never made it onto the album proper, are worthwhile curoios...but once again, for fans only.

01. Sad Eyes Kill
02. Mystic Green
03. Shoot Down the Railroad Man
04. My Secret Country
05. Invisible People
06. Only Business
07. Crashing Dream
08. Depending On You
09. Gone West
10. My Dog's Last Dream
11. Tranquility Base
12. The Sniper
13. Murder Boy
14. Got the Fear
15. TV Stone

16. Undermine
17. Novacaine
18. Power
19. Every Morning Does

Get it on Bandcamp

4 comments:

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Unknown said...

this cant touch the first record or anything d. roback recorded but it has a certain charm. i kinda like the weird dark-gothy feel of the demos at the end. these were recorded a year or 2 later than the crashing dream demos at the begining. i guess this is where s. roback was heading with his next band,viva saturn.p.s.....i bought a terrible record by crazy horse (neil youngs partners in crime) back in the 80s/90s and at that time, m. piucci was in the band!!!

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