SATURN
LupH, 60m cassette
DMentH, 60m CD-R
mid 1998

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.

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