WORLD OF POOH A Trip To Your Tonsils 7 inch 1992

 

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World Of Pooh was an indie rock/noise pop band from San Francisco, CA. 

 

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A1

Stones Of Judgment

A2		Squirm Test
B1		Owl Business
B2		Blow The Smoke Away

BARBARA MANNING 1212 1997

 

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1. The Arsonist Story
2. Fireman
3. Evil Plays Piano
4. Trapped And Drowning
5. End of the Rainbow
6. Blood of Feeling
7. Rickity Tikity Tin
8. Stain on the Sun
9. Isn't Lonely Lovely?
10. That Kid
11. First Line (Seven The Row)
12. Marcus Leid
13. Stammtisch

SAN FRANCISCO SEALS Truth Walks In Sleepy Shadows 1995

 

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1

S.F. Sorrow

3:26
2		Ladies Of The Sea

3:28
3		Ipecac

3:04
4		Locked Out

3:23
5		Bold Letters

2:36
6		Flashback Caruso

3:04
7		Pulp

2:42
8		Soul Of Patrick Lee

3:39
9		Kid's Pirate Ship

2:12
10		How Did You Know?

4:15
11		Stellar Lullabye

1:51

HIT ME WITH A FLOWER...THE NEW SOUNDS OF SAN FRANCISCO Various Artists 1993

 

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1	–A Subtle Plague	Hey Cop	3:14
2	–Viva Saturn	Send A Message	2:41
3	–Sonya Hunter	Fault Line	3:00
4	–X Tal*	Your Fragile Mind	3:31
5	–Penelope Houston	Nina	3:17
6	–Swell	Dan, A Son Of God	3:44
7	–Chris Cacavas	Love's A Many Splintered Thing	4:27
8	–The Wellsprings Of Hope	C-Note Melody	3:37
9	–Bedlam Rovers	Difference	3:58
10	–Sonya Hunter	Two Worlds Collide	3:29
11	–Pounding Birds	Winter Ghost	3:29
12	–Barbara Manning	Sympathy Wreath (Demise)	2:59
13	–Penelope Houston	Sweetheart	4:13
14	–Viva Saturn	Raised	3:59
15	–Timco	Franny	4:15
16	–Hannah Marcus	Demerol	3:58
17	–Pat Thomas & Family Jewels	Don't Go Back To Silkeborg	9:02
17.1	–Various	San Francisco	4:48

 

TERRASTOCK ALL ACCESS Various Artists 1997

 

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The CD was exclusively produced to accompany the memorial Terrastock edition of the magazine.
Limited edition of 1000 copies.

All tracks were recorded live April 25-27, 1997 at The Ptolemaic Providence Perambulation (aka "Terrastock I"), in The Rogue Lounge, Providence, RI.

Tracklist

1	–The Silver Apples*	A Pox On You	4:07
2	–Abunai*	Inspiration	4:36
3	–Windy & Carl	Awhile	16:14
4	–The Deviants (2)	Memphis Psychosis	8:14
5	–Barbara Manning	Isn't Lonely Lovely?	3:46
6	–The Primordial Undermind*	Not An Atom	4:45
7	–Medicine Ball	Rocket	5:08
8	–The Bevis Frond	Red Hair	4:49
9	–Damon & Naomi With Tom Rapp	I Shall Be Released	2:57
10	–The Alchemysts*	Numinous	2:50
11	–Bardo Pond	Affa	8:23
12	–V.Majestic	More	5:44
13	–The Olivia Tremor Control	Collage #1	3:48
14	–Tom Rapp	The Jeweller	2:46

BARBARA MANNING One Perfect Green Blanket 1991

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Artist Biography by Stewart Mason

The idiosyncratic but rewarding Barbara Manning is a little too spiky and odd to fit comfortably in the Lilith Fair crowd, but her best work outshines those of her bigger-selling peers. Manning's artistic restlessness and her tendency to jump in and out of bands and recording situations makes it difficult to follow her career -- her discography must be one of the most confusing in all of the '90s indie scene -- but it also makes her one of the most vital and interesting singer/songwriters of her era.
Born in San Diego and raised in Northern California, Manning's first musical venture was 28th Day, a jangle band the singer/bassist formed with guitarist Cole Marquis and drummer Michael Cloward in 1984. The group's promising self-titled EP was released in 1985 and reissued twice thereafter, on an expanded CD in 1991 and an even more expanded cassette featuring live tracks and outtakes released on Cloward's own Devil in the Woods label. But although Marquis would remain an important musical ally for Manning -- who recorded several of his songs on her solo records -- 28th Day split up in 1986.

Starting the attention-deficit-disorder-like pattern that would remain her usual practice for the next several years, Manning's next move was to simultaneously join her friend Brandan Kearney's band World of Pooh and start her solo career. Manning's "Lately I Keep Scissors," possibly her best song, was both a highlight of World of Pooh's 1989 debut The Land of Thirst and the title-track to Manning's powerful solo debut, which had been released the year before. Though World of Pooh broke up in 1990, Manning continued with her solo career, releasing the lengthy EP One Perfect Green Blanket in 1991. That EP's title illustrates Manning's baseball obsession, which also fostered her next band, the SF Seals, whom she named after a defunct minor league team. The SF Seals, which also included drummer Melanie Clarin (ex-Cat Heads; she had also played on Manning's solo debut), guitarist Lincoln Allen, and secondary singer/songwriter Michelle Cernuto. The quartet debuted in 1993 with the brilliant EP The Baseball Trilogy, two old baseball-themed novelty songs, and Manning's own "Dock Ellis," a suitably psychedelic groover about the first man to pitch a no-hitter while tripping on acid. 1994's disjointed Nowhere was very much a group effort, but by the time of 1995's Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows, the SF Seals were firmly under Manning's control; it's indistinguishable from her solo records.

Also in 1995, Manning sang a terrific song on Wasps Nests, the first album by Stephin Merritt's all-star side project the 6ths, and recorded a brief but powerful album, Barbara Manning Sings With the Original Artists, in collaboration with former Young Marble Giants leader Stuart Moxham that nicely slots Manning into the jazz-tinged minimalism of Moxham's own work. Finally, in this exceedingly productive year, Manning released Northern Exposure Will Be Right Back, an experimental tape loops and noise collaboration with zine publisher/performance artist Seymour Glass under the name Glands of External Secretion. (Manning and Glass had recorded a pair of singles under this name earlier in the decade; though two more Glands of External Secretion albums were released, Manning's role in them was sharply curtailed.)

1997's 1212, named after Manning's birth month and day, was originally planned as the third SF Seals album, but Manning decided early on to retire that conceit. Her strongest work since Lately I Keep Scissors, the album features "The Arsonist's Story," a complex, side-long suite that's one of Manning's most richly satisfying efforts. By contrast, the 1999 EP In New Zealand features Manning recording with a Who's Who of Kiwi musicians in a loose, live-sounding setting.

After a closet-cleaning set of singles and loose tracks, Under One Roof, Manning formed a new band, the punk-poppish Go-Luckys, and recorded 2000's Homeless Is Where the Heart Is and 2001's You Should Know by Now.  

Tracklist

1	Straw Man
2	Smoking Her Wings
3	Don't Rewind
4	Sympathy Wreath
5	Green
6	Lock Yer Room (Uptight)
7	Someone Wants You Dead
8	Sympathy Wreath (Demise)
	Includes 10 Additional Tracks From "Lately I Keep Scissors"
9	Scissors
10	Breathe Lies
11	Somewhere Soon
12	Talk All Night
13	Make It Go Away
14	Never Park
15	Every Pretty Girl
16	Mark E. Smith & Brix
17	Something You've Got (Isn't Good)
18	Prophecy Written

THE SAN FRANCISCO SEALS Nowhere 1994

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In the early nineties, World Of Pooh members Barbara Manning, Melanie Clarin, and Kim Osterwald transformed into the San Francisco Seals. Lead vocalist Manning wrote the band's original songs; Clarin handled the drumming duties and also sang and played accordion, as well as other instruments, while Osterwald played cello. The music of SF Seals was largely pop-oriented, drawing inspiration from the '60s Bay Area scene and often spiced with samples and strange noises -- although as the band grew instrumentally, those aspects became less prominent in their live work. Manning was particularly fond of covering other artists -- often obscure tunes -- both on record and in the Seals' live shows.
Nowhere After recording a series of seven-inch singles with Margaret Murray, formerly of U.S. Saucer, on bass, SF Seals toured with bassist Chris Milner of The Molecules and drummer Jay Paget. Guitarist Brently Pusser of Nerd Rock Pioneers and Three Day Stubble joined the band for the recording of Nowhere, their first LP, released in 1994 on the Matador label. Murray and Clarin also played on the album. The band's second album, Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows, was released the next year, and they toured in support of the release, after which they disbanded -- permanently, according to Manning. Manning, who had fronted 28th Day and the Tablespoons as well as World Of Pooh, has also released solo work, and is hailed by underground critics as a songwriter of eminent abilities. From Discogs

 Tracklist 

1	Back Again	4:37
2	Don't Underestimate Me	3:36
3	8's	3:44
4	Janine's Dream	3:16
5	Still?	4:02
6	Day 12	2:33
7	Winter Song	2:39
8	Baby Blue	3:30
9	Demons On The Corners	8:38
10	Missing	2:50