 | Split 7" with The Because
Salinas Records and Snuffy Smile Records / lyrics soon
One Reason side
1. Conjugal Potential mp3
2. All Your Empty Houses
The Because side
1. The Luck at Last Night
2. Smoking Room
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This is a split 7" with the Japanese band The Because. The Record was released in the U.S. by Salinas Records in May 2007 on black vinyl with some really sweet full color covers featuring art by our buddy Mike Harpring. The Japanese version was released by the venerable Snuffy Smile Records and I have no idea how you could get one over here. The only differnce between the Japanese and U.S. records is the cover art. The Because songs are two rocking early-Jawbreakeresque tunes. "Conjugal Potential" is a cover of a song originally written and performed by Erin Tobey. "Empty Houses" is about living in a town that is a state of transition. People have left, people have moved on, and maybe you are about move on, too. Our side was recorded in August of 2006 in the farmhouse in Cleveland, MS, with the help of Ben Skelton.
This 7" came out in November of 2005 on Salinas Records out of Detroit, MI. The first 500 were pressed on white vinyl with a diecut cover of mountains. The 2nd pressing was 500 on clear vinyl. It was recorded in August of 2005 at Farmfresh Studios in Bloomington, IN by Jacob Belser. The first song is coming to terms with the fact that friends have died recently, and will die at any moment, and what that means for how we need to live right now to make the best of the time we've got. The second one is about the contruction of the Nafta superhighway (I-69) through our hometown, and how issues always have two sides and in punk rock it's easy to loose sight of that. The third one is about how lucky I am to be able to travel when most of the people from my hometown never live a life that gives them that oppurtunity. Greg wanted us to name the last song Mountain song because of Jane's Addiction.
This is a split 7" with our good friends Defiance, Ohio that is pressed on lovely clear coke bottle green vinyl. Ryan Woods of D,OH made the cover art. We recorded our two songs at the living room studio in New Orleans with the multitalented Chris George on 2" reel to reel in August of 2004. We love analog. This is the first release that our new bass player Greg played on, however Ronny Cresswell (our previous 1/3) was instrumental in writing the music to both of these songs. One is about getting out and experiencing other places, the other is about being stuck in a home situation that is falling apart. Many people think this 7" sounds quite different that our past releases, but hey, that's progression.
 | All Rivers Run South, All Roads Lead Home
Plan-it-X Records (south) / lyrics
1. Sometimes We Bleed mp3
2. The Black and the Red mp3
3. The Story of a Hometown mp3
4. Legacy of Empty Buildings mp3
5. Bout Time We Give Something a Try (Misty and Ryan) mp3
6. Southern Rock Anthem mp3
7. Dead End Roads mp3
8. Rest Stop mp3
9. Song We Sing mp3
10. No Surrender mp3
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This was recorded April/May of 2003 and came out in October of that year. It's 10 fairly straightforward rock numbers. Writing these songs took us forever amid lots of life changes and wasting time and traveling, and we feel like they came out with a pretty unified theme of the huge effect small town life has had on us politically and emotionally. This cd was the first release on Plan-it-x South, operated by This Bike is a Pipe Bomb. The original cd had weird maroon printing and was released in cd bags. It was repressed in summer 2006 by Plan-it-x HQ with black and white art in a jewel case. This is the last release we did with Ronny Joe on bass/vocals.
If you care about this junk, here is the Punk Planet review. | 2002 tour cd
lyrics
1. Sometimes We Bleed
2. Rest Stop
3. Fire Drill
4. Can You Make Planets
5. Song We Sing
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We made about 250 of these for our 2002 summer tour and they are all gone now. The packaging was pretty nice, so too bad. They had 5 songs on them, 3 of which were rerecorded for the "Rivers" cd.
 | Split cd with High Strung
lyrics
1-6 High Strung Songs
8. Instant History
9. Probable Cause
10. Dear Minority Author
11. Our Inside Joke
12. This World mp3
13. Confessions of a High School Overachiever mp3
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This is our second release, which came out in the summer of 2000. It's fairly aggressive and fast paced.
It is a split with High Strung, a now defunct band from Nashville. Members of High Strung
are now in the hard rocking band Ass Chapel. High Strung's side sort of sounds like AssChapel as a punk band. makes sense.
There are six songs by both bands.
Here's a review from Maximum RocknRoll:"HIGH STRUNG is out of control! A full on hammer fight between NOFX and FYP,
but not with a PROPAGANDHI or I SPY result. Fast, sloppy, and punk guitars
with ultra-rapid delivery of tight and melodic vocals. There are the occasional
slow bits but they drop that crap fast. You'll know when the CD switches over to
ONE REASON, but just barely. OK, a little more than barely, there's a thicker bass
and dual male female vocals that are more pop. Still pretty sick, however.
Good song attacking sexist lyrics."  | Closing Our Chapters
14 songs /lyrics
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This is our first release, put out in the summer of 1999. The songs are mostly in the pop punk vein
and it is not a good reflection of what we sound like now. We basically don't sell these anymore.
Some people loved it. Some people hated it.
Here's a luke-warm review from Maximum RocknRoll:"Well, their heart is in the right place,
but their music is in another altogether.
The sound falls somewhere between hardcore and snotty pop punk.
It's mostly mid paced spoke/sung punk. I'm sure they are nice guys." |
