
1. The True Story of Muffy St. Jacques [22:26]
00:00 The Parade
02:09 A Tribute To Golden Grant
03:22 What's New, Pussy Cat?
07:22 Lance's Family Hour
14:12 The Spontaneous Generation
18:26 Parade's End
2. My Biggest Fan (The Ratmix Hits The Fan) on cassette or
2. My Biggest Fan (The Beating Under Pressure) on CD
3. Defiance [25:36]
00:00 Defiance (This Is My Memory, and Memory Is My Life)
02:20 Limousine
07:22 The Big Red Carpet
09:37 "The Nightmare Next Door" by Muffy St. Jacques
14:00 Parking Gavage
17:20 Abreaction
18:39 Beauty Queen Saturn
23:30 So My Life Is This Town And My Driving Around
This was intended to be the final GREENman
release, and the group went out with a bang: 2 long songs multitracked
in the Abbxcess bedroom, each dramatically different and with many discreet
segments. The first track is -- for the first time! -- The True Story
of Muffy St. Jacques, featuring the first installment in the "Know your
boodles" series (What's New, Pussy Cat?), the second of which would
be later available on the Snakes On Ice compilation (www.bandd.com).
Golden Grant was given a spurious tribute by those he had once promoted,
and things grew steadily darker for a finale detailing the terrors of childhood
and spousal abuse. Eli McIlveen contributed digital watch beeps to
"Lance's Family Hour," which he'd almost forgotten about,
"Defiance," the flipside, was a dark journey through
the city of Defiance inspired by one too many Ingmar Bergman films.
The track contains folklore regarding the mystery city, and is structured
as a car trip from one end to the other. Memories are challenged.
Nightmares exposed. And it all ends back where it begins (since Defiance
circles us and embraces us here).
The two different versions of "My Biggest Fan" were
attempts to make the original (never released) prologue to The Grey
Yonder more interesting. The unfortunate result is that the songs
just became bad. A related track, "The Rapture Under Pressure," is
available on the CD-R for The Grey Yonder.
Suddenly, it was decided that this should be released
as both a cassette AND a CD. Gary Gehiere (Sintoy) graciously
offered to help, and after a few days of trial and error we got the CD-R's
mastered and burned. Unfortunately we were unable to separate the
tracks into smaller pieces that time around...that should happen sometime
in the future.
Clay Boutilier -- co-editor of Lost Magazine --
drew the Saturn cover.